When MF Doom paid an impersonator to carry out his reveals

The late Lengthy Island emcee, MF Doom, was an thrilling and enthralling entertainer. The mysticism surrounding the person behind the masks captured followers and different musicians alike, and since his arrival on the scene in 1999 with Operation: Doomsday, he has created an interesting alter-ego. 

In 2009, Mos Def, a fellow New Yorker, uploaded a video of himself within the studio rapping the lyrics of an MF Doom song acapella with stunning accuracy. The footage quickly started to flow into, and shortly after Doom bought wind of the video, he introduced a joint tour with the ‘Mathematics’ lyricist. 

The tour was a brief one and would solely embody three dates: a present in Toronto, one in Chicago and a remaining pit cease in New York. The ordinarily tight-lipped MF Doom even granted an interview to Toronto’s Eye Weekly. The tour even had a Toronto-specific illustrated poster made by artist Kagan McLeod.

The tour was meant to kick off in Toronto. Nevertheless, after a last-minute postponement, the tour started in Chicago as a substitute. Nevertheless, followers felt like they weren’t seeing their favorite artist when a masked man took to the stage.

Mos Def carried out as deliberate, dropping a number of Doom verses in his personal set. Nevertheless, when Doom performed, folks had been suspicious the masked man’s supply was too exact, and the masked determine didn’t look something like the photographs.

The next day, it was unveiled that the determine on stage was a physique double and wasn’t Doom (actual identify Daniel Dumile). The venue confirmed it, and in an interview, the rapper admitted it, stating, “I liken it to this. I’m a director as well as a writer. I choose different characters. I choose their direction and where I want to put them. So, who I choose to put as the character is up to me, the character that I hired, he got paid for it.”

It’s thought Dumile has pulled such stunts on multiple event. In 2004, on the Kool Haus nightclub in Toronto, whereas MF Doom was in his dressing room, a rapper in an orange jacket, a hat and Doom’s iconic metal-face masks got here out to rap ‘Accordion.’

Following this, a fan screamed, “That’s not fucking DOOM! Get the fuck off the fucking stage!” Following this, the true MF Doom ran on stage to avoid wasting the day. You possibly can see the 2004 footage from the Kool Haus within the video under.