Shadows of Tomorrow: BigNick PearlCity (Bito Sureiya, Hippu Hoppu Otaku) Shares His Thoughts On MF DOOM's Life, Legacy & DOOMposters
Honestly, it doesn't even feel like there's a proper way to elegize an eccentric and extremely talented artist such as MF DOOM, who meant so much to so many of us for so many years for so many different reasons as truly unique as DOOM himself. So, what better way to pay tribute to The Man, The Myth, THE MASK himself than by speaking to those closest to him? With a heavy heart, I proudly present Shadows of Tomorrow; a new recurring column in tribute to DOOM in an effort to re-tell the tall tales, strange stories, and lesser-known tidbits of The Metal Face Villain himself. R.I.P. Daniel "MF DOOM" Dumile Thompson.
"The first time I heard MF DOOM rap, I told the person who got me hip [to him] I could "rap better" than DOOM. I didn't understand it. I was listening to, like, Curren$y & Odd Future and sh*t, but that was not long-lived, as I heard "One Beer" the next day and that sh*t changed my life forever [for real, for real]. I have an addictive personality, so when I was "in," I wanted to [know] everything. hear everything, and I, more or less, did. For years, I would comb through random features, remixes, mixes, and sh*t just to absorb it all. Sh*t like DANGERDOOM & King [Geedorah] are, usually, not really talked about like that, but are legit two of my [favorite] DOOM projects [for real, for real]. So, for me, it's not really the usual stuff about him that made me love DOOM, it's the stuff that [people] hated or didn't notice."
"Like, the DOOMbot [DOOMposters] thing; as someone who's not really bright and wide-eyed about the live performance game myself, I thought that was the coolest sh*t ever, but [people] really be mad he did that. I wish I could send a NASAbot up there to perform, sometimes, but that'd be biting, no shark n***a lol. Or the mask itself, my man, really just said "NOPE!" to all the bullsh*t that's, literally, ruling how people consume music, how they consume art, and the entitlement they have to a person's [life] all DOOM just said "NO!" And nobody really had a choice either, f**k with it or get lost. And that's why I loved DOOM, that's legit how most of my friends bonded; it was over our mutual love of DOOM. I mean, my first tapes I put out were, essentially, just me making songs to the [Metal Fingers] Special Herbs beats."
"I did two volumes of a mixtape series called The Special Herbs EP. I'm sure you can still find 'em somewhere, not that I would want y'all to. But, yeah, DOOM meant the world to me. It sucks he's gone, I really feel for his wife and friends, sh*t is crazy. It's wild 'cause DOOM was the only emcee I was checking for like that and now that he's gone, I really have no aspirations to work with anyone anymore [for real, for real,] like, everyone I would [have] wanted a verse from is dead, which is... a damning feeling [for real, for real] and it's gotten to a point (HOT TAKE ALERT! HOT TAKE ALERT!) where I truly feel like we can only turn to Ghostface & Jadakiss for true "scrunch-up-your-face" bars that we used to; yeah, it's other "nice" n***az, but not "DOOM nice," not "Sean Price nice." They just... nice. Anyway, rest in piece to my favorite rapper's favorite rapper and yours, too... The Supa Muthaf***in' Villain."
- BigNick PearlCity AKA Bito Sureiya (@DoubleGodBody)