The ongoing issue of whether or not MF Doom has a live show stunt double has focused on fan's reactions to actual live shows.
This concern has resurfaced due to a questionable Rock The Bells appearance:
"The man in the iron mask shys to the corner like a scolded child, he looks for direction from anyone on stage, his presence is not one of confidence. No boldness found from a vet like DOOM?. Its not him. Cant be. Why wont he address the crowd?"
Stone at The Couch Sessions declares MF Doom's touring career over and, judging from the response of the crowd, it sounds like he's right.
That's a truly sad way to go out. Let's hope it's not the last chapter for MF Doom's performing career.
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Nah, this is art. In a year or so the critics will be writing articles about what a genius he is for de-contextualizing the role of the performer in a remixed and sampled genre like hip hop. I think that the bad feelings of fans will fade pretty quickly and Doom will already be pushing onto another project (or ten) that brings in new fans anyway.
this would be art if doom hadn’t done it before.
if you’re going to try and pull of this type of stunt. you do it once, preferably at an event with lots of publicity, and then you drop the album while people are talking about what went down.
not showing up to performances for over a year is just unacceptable.
if the music is good, i’ll continue to support mf doom by buying his albums, but after all that’s happened, there’s no way i’m paying any money to see a live performance.
I’m in agreement with Justin. This is some Andy Kauffman shit, Doom may lose a few fringe fans over it but I don’t think his cult following has suffered.
I was personally mad at Doom when I shelled out $10 for the inferior Venomous Villain album and heard him open the festivities with “Dub it off your man, don’t spend that ten bucks / I did it for the advance, the back end sucks” or a bit disturbed when hearing about the falling out with Grimm and M.I.C. and how he allegedly did his old crew dirty. But what do you expect of a super-villain?
Ultimately neither of those things stopped me from buying his subsequent albums. I just make sure to screen them in advance now after that VV2 garbage.
I think Justin’s right that the same people talking smack will be buying his next album and will be back on his dick again. Really, who could be mad at someone who attempts this sinister of a plot?
Justin, he’s recontextualizing himself as an untrustworthy ripoff artist.
But if this is art, it’s very bad art, very poorly executed, with nothing to new to show the world.
There’s nothing fresh here, Justin.
How do you think people will respond if his impostor finally gets a beat down that’s posted on YouTube, cause that could be coming at this point.
He’s played himself and he’s going to get played one way or another, either as fans gradually abandon him or as payback comes due.
Of course, if it turns out that what we’re seeing is MF Doom, shapeshifting towards a total breakdown, that might be of interest, i.e,, if MF Doom is impersonating an MF Doom impostor.
But that’s just silly considering that what we’re basically discussing is a bunch of suck ass shows by someone who sucks ass.
No, I’m not saying there’s anything fresh about a fat rapper stealing from Andy Kaufman.
But the critics will adore him for this in 12 months. I do stand by that.
Fair enough.
I’ll speak with you then.