Wife mournfully pays tribute on Instagram
Rapper MF Doom, identified for his masked “super villain” persona, died again on Oct. 31, his spouse Jasmine Dumile revealed on social media Thursday. He was 49.
Dumile posted an Instagram message to her husband, actual identify Daniel Dumile, with the New Year’s Eve revelation stating that the elusive rapper had “transitioned October 31, 2020.” The influential rapper was the pressure behind beloved hip-hop albums “Mm..Food” and his collaboration with Madlib, “Madvillainy.”
“The greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for. Thank you for all the things you have shown, taught and given to me, our children and our family. Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off,” Jasmine Dumile wrote on the official MF Doom Instagram account. “Thank you for showing how not to be afraid to love and be the best person I could ever be. My world will never be the same without you.”
Rolling Stone confirmed the rapper’s demise with MF Doom’s consultant Richie Abbott. No additional info on the reason for demise was obtainable.
USA TODAY has reached out to his representatives for remark.
His spouse’s Instagram put up additionally addressed the tragic demise of the couple’s son Malachi in 2017.
“Words will never express what you and Malachi mean to me,” Jasmine wrote. “I love both and adore you always.”
The hip-hop world reacted in shock to the information. Rapper Q-Tip tweeted Thursday, “RIP to another Giant your favorite MC’s MC .. MF DOOM!! crushing news…”
Rapper ScHoolboy Q tweeted, “Damn. NOT DOOM HOMIE.”
Rapper El-P tweeted, “MF DOOM FOREVER”
The non-public rapper Dumile (pronounced doom-ee-lay) wore a masks – onstage and in public – modeled after the Marvel comedian guide villain Doctor Doom, which he unveiled with the 1999 album “Operation: Doomsday.”
“I wanted to get onstage and orate, without people thinking about the normal things people think about,” he advised Ta-Nehisi Coates in a 2009 profiletitled “The Mask of Metal Face Doom” for the The New Yorker. “Like girls being like, ‘Oh, he’s sexy,’ or ‘I don’t want him, he’s ugly,’ and then other dudes sizing you up. A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?”
In March, MF Doom tweeted a message letting followers understanding to take COVID-19 precautions critically. “DOOM STAY IN QUARANTINE” he wrote in an Instagram post.
