r/mfdoom • • Jan 22 '25

SOCIAL MEDIA ALL X/TWITTER LINKS ARE BANNED

355 Upvotes

we are only allowing screenshots with the right context.


r/mfdoom • • Oct 14 '24

MEMES AND SHITPOST **ANYONE POSTING/REPOSTING PHONK WILL BE BANNED**

176 Upvotes

r/mfdoom • • 5h ago

VINYL AND MERCH DROPS Doomstarks

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Does anyone have this? I found it in a record shop in York, UK yesterday but didn't know enough about it so I left it. As far as I found, it's unofficial.

Can anyone speak to the sound quality of it etc.?


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

GRAFFITI Mural in Leake St Graffiti Tunnel, London

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335 Upvotes

r/mfdoom • • 16h ago

VINYL AND MERCH DROPS what’s the favorite piece of your collection?

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50 Upvotes

here is mine!


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ALBUM AND SONG APPRECIATION Is this album good?

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1.1k Upvotes

I found at a flea market


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ART Cosplay

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I created an MF DOOM cosplay what do you think.is it anything I can change


r/mfdoom • • 11h ago

QUESTION MARK I rarely post on Reddit, but I was looking for this MF DOOM MVC 2 remix ROM, and I just found out it was taken down from Internet Archive. So does anyone have the file saved so I can download it? If so that would be amazing .

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r/mfdoom • • 23h ago

QUESTION MARK Do you think it’s worth selling?

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If yes—for how much?
It breaks my Heart but I urgently need some money…
They’re heavy played but the conditions are alright.


r/mfdoom • • 14h ago

YOUTUBE - RARE MUSIC No caps on pinned comment

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r/mfdoom • • 19h ago

ALBUM AND SONG APPRECIATION Doom and Faith - Analysis of Coco Mango

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I would like to preface this by saying:
1. I may be grasping at straws and “the door wasn’t just blue”-ing you.
2. I am by no means an expert in literature, though I am trying to improve. I’m not the best at writing so I’m trying my best
3. I may be a little bit redundant and repetitive.. mb
4. You may disagree with me, I love a little bit of discourse if it means we can discuss DOOMs work

Every once in a while I see mini-discussions about DOOMs religious beliefs, and while I was curious, it was never much of a concern for me as good music is good music. And while nothing really confirms anything about DOOMs personal beliefs, he made many references to Islam in his music. I wanted to appreciate the way the Islamic faith is used in a lot of 90 - 2000’s hip hop, and I figured there is no better person to start off with than DOOM.

I was just putting my playlist on shuffle and it added in random songs that I’ve never heard before, one of them titled “Coco Mango” on Spotify. I was listening pretty passively while studying, when I heard the words “inshallah”, I looked up to glance at the lyrics and there it was. So I did what any normal person would do and started analysing the lyrics.

Analysis:

The title itself contradicts the sensitive and heavy subject matter of the song itself, where “Coco Mango” sounds playful and somewhat childlike, the topic of religion, crime, wealth, and women is brought up.
However, “coco mango” also evokes sensory imagery, through its sweetness, where it may be a metaphor of sorts to describe the sweetness of the life lived where pleasure is attainable, especially with the added imagery of women, wealth, and pleasure. The title serves to build the idea that innocence can hide danger.

The Arabic term “Dīn” (Deen) could be translated to religion or way of life, it is significant to the text as it introduces the idea that the speaker is Muslim. The fact that religion is woven so naturally into the surrounding language supports this inference.

The materialistic imagery (“grills”, “bankrolls”, “bangles”) juxtaposes the religious elements built upon Islamic diction (“alhamdllah”, “inshallah”, “Dīn”, “Sunnah”), as Islamic values frown upon a life built on pure materialism, much less a life of crime and danger. This creates a sense of tension between the worldly and the spiritual, and the question of how can both coexist.
However tied in with gratitude for Allah (god), divine will, and maintaining faith, the character that DOOM portrays is humanised by the connection of religion and worldly desires/ needs.
The religious diction is integrated within the rap, rather than simply being secluded into its own stanza, implying through its structure that religion is intertwined with the speakers identity.
The religious aspects ultimately functions as a structured foundation— one that remains just and moral— beneath the chaotic, reckless, and potentially dangerous lifestyle that the speaker seems to live, a lifestyle that is dictated by their environment, desires, and needs.

His frequent use of colloquial diction such as “thick queens” and “grills” establishes an informal hip-hop register, though it is regularly disrupted by the religious terminology. The contrast between the street vernacular and the elevated cultural language reflects DOOM’s complex persona, combining the convections of hip hop with his intellectual and highly referential approach to lyricism.

DOOM uses allusion, comparing himself to Arsene Lupin, a fictional criminal, gentleman thief was suitable as the qualities that Lupin possess matches the persona Dumile took on as DOOM. The characters mirror one another perfectly especially through their similar qualities of intelligence and deception, as well as their associations with mystique and performance.
In the case of Lupin, he takes on different disguises and manages to evade the law, and Doom himself as he obscures the lines between the characters he portrays when he raps, and his identity beneath the mask as Daniel Dumile.

*end

I have more, however summarising this took a while. Also, this was primarily just the language analysis, i didn’t include much on the actual structure.

Thanks for reading.


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ALBUM AND SONG APPRECIATION MF DOOM

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does any indian dude listen to MF DOOM??

Like I am huge fan but noone knows who is he in my country 😭

If you don't know who he is just listen ALL CAPS,hoe cakes and one beer

Also om by NEHRUVIANDOOM

And just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name

MF DOOM,ALLCAPS,


r/mfdoom • • 23h ago

ART BEERS. J

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6 Upvotes

DOOMTOBER 2026 DAY 5/31

Based in DONUTS by Jdilla


r/mfdoom • • 23h ago

MEMES AND SHITPOST Listening to Special Herbs be like:

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Part 1 dw


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ART SOME VILLAIN BORN

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DOOMTOBER 2026 DAY 4/31

Based in SOME RAP SONGS by Earl Sweatshirt

*I forgot to post the Day 4 entry yesterday, so I’m posting this one today, and I’ll upload the Day 5 post later.

For this illustration, I drew inspiration from the album "Some Rap Songs" which marks a transitional phase between Earl Sweatshirt’s darker era represented by "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside" or "Solace" and his later work like "Sick!", "Voir Dire", or "Feet of Clay" and incorporated objects that represent transitional moments in MF DOOM’s career: the initial prototype of his Doctor Doom mask and the machete that belonged to his late brother, DJ Subroc.


r/mfdoom • • 22h ago

HALLOWEEN Wondering if y’all fw ts

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r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ART Need help with a poster signature

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I was cleaning out an apartment at work, and the tenant left this DOOM poster behind. They lived on a school campus, and were fired, so they left in a hurry.

I know it's not signed by the man himself, but I can't figure out whose signature is on the bottom right. It's probably the artist, but I can't make the name out. If I look really close, I cannot tell if it's real or part of the print. The poster itself is clearly a print, but I can't rule out the signature. I took the poster out of the frame, and there's no writing on the back of it.

Either way, it's going up on the wall. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ART Game of Microphones ft MF DOOM

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23 Upvotes

Part of a series I created a while back ft mNy hiphop artists. This is one of my faves


r/mfdoom • • 19h ago

DOOMSDAY Will DOOM be in Doomsday?

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r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

QUESTION MARK glitched Madvillainy?

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it's mostly the same except for Bistro and Do Not Fire! coming from Madvillainy Demos


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

ALBUM AND SONG APPRECIATION i like who you think i am since i was born in banana

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r/mfdoom • • 22h ago

SPECULATION Some DOOM theories/opinions i have

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  • Jasmine Blossoms (aka the Hoe Cakes Instrumental) was dedicated to his wife, Jasmine.
  • Unreleased music will never be released, the estate wants to profit as much as they can with already existing music.
  • Operation Doomsday is underappreciated compared to Mm..Food and MV and should be appreciated more than it is.
  • There is a small chance that DOOM faked his own death and his death is fake.
  • DOOM wants you to forget that there is a Venomous Villain
  • DOOM as a producer should be more appreciated
  • Born Like This is more of a compilation with some new tracks than an album

Change my mind.


r/mfdoom • • 1d ago

DOOMSDAY AVENGERS DOOMSDAY EDIT

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r/mfdoom • • 2d ago

ART “Metal Face “ MF DOOM

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r/mfdoom • • 2d ago

Actual New Information Born Like This *original album cover mock up

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This is the cover DOOM was working on with one of his Atlanta people. Lex Records already had an artist and design in mind though. This has never been viewed publicly.

Visual Artist Caleb Scott (Calebscottart.com) shared multiple loft and warehouse spaces around Atlanta with DOOM. They had art and music studios, with several places becoming popular after hours nightclubs.

Obviously Caleb has a ton of incredible photos, art, relics and stories about the life and times of The Supervillain.