![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Early on, audiences couldn’t always tell they were watching a Fauxdeville Villain. Fans would show up expecting DOOM and instead be greeted by a knockoff donning the headgear, rapping his songs. He was able to do this because of his trademark mask-a hulking piece of metal that famed graffiti artist Lord Scotch designed by deconstructing a helmet used in the movie Gladiator. In the mid-2000s, MF DOOM-the silver-tongued MC who dazzled listeners for decades and inspired cult-like devotion-began sending impostors to take his place at shows. One of the great scandals in underground hip-hop history also doubled as one of the finest pieces of performance art of the 21st century. “Few can do it, even fewer can sell it.” -MF DOOM, “One Beer” ![]()
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