

He released classics Madvillainy, Take Me to Your Leader and Vaudeville Villain under different aliases within a 10-month period in 20. The album acquired a cult following, and when DOOM returned in 2003, the world was ready. He relies on words to draw out rhythm, cramming lines with inner rhymes and alliteration. As an emcee, his flow is a blunt instrument, rumbling over a track's rhythm, oftentimes oblivious to the beat. His first album, 1999's Operation Doomsday, was a lo-fi hip-hop classic, featuring a cadre of reworked quiet-storm beats and oblique word puzzles. Sev Love went into hiding, emerging years later as the masked "super villain" MF DOOM. DOOM's story starts in 1993, when Sev Love X's brother and KMD groupmate Subroc died in a car accident and their sophomore album, Black Bastards, was shelved by their record label. The subject of constant speculation by a rabid fan base, the man born Daniel Dumile is among hip-hop's most mythologized rappers. The emcee now simply known as DOOM hasn't shown his face to the public in over a decade, choosing instead to hide behind a metal mask at all times.
