"It's really hot but it's got air-conditioning," says Doom, when asked if his mask might make things a bit stuffy on a hot day like today. "It sits a little bit away from my face," he adds, and this is important because it means he can still drink beer during the interview. "That," he adds with a chuckle, "is the main thing."
Daniel Dumile, AKA Doom, might have a reputation as hip-hop's harvester of sorrow, but right now, he couldn't be happier. Living in London, as he has for two years, allows him to escape his past. "I spent 35 years growing up in the US, and it had its ups and downs," he says, brightly, "but this is a new place for me. I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me ย I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun."
The rap outsider does have some friends in the capital. There are cameos from Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn and Beth Gibbons of Portishead on his latest album, Key to the Kuffs, a superb collaboration with experimental producer Jneiro Jarel. The high-profile guests are a sign of the regard in which he's held: unusually for someone who has been in the game for more than two decades, his current work is as eagerly lapped up as his "classics". He is the only Golden Age rapper to have figured high in lists of albums of the noughties ย his team-up with producer Madlib for 2004's Madvillainy was considered by many to be the decade's best....
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Daniel Dumile, AKA Doom, might have a reputation as hip-hop's harvester of sorrow, but right now, he couldn't be happier. Living in London, as he has for two years, allows him to escape his past. "I spent 35 years growing up in the US, and it had its ups and downs," he says, brightly, "but this is a new place for me. I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me ย I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun."
The rap outsider does have some friends in the capital. There are cameos from Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn and Beth Gibbons of Portishead on his latest album, Key to the Kuffs, a superb collaboration with experimental producer Jneiro Jarel. The high-profile guests are a sign of the regard in which he's held: unusually for someone who has been in the game for more than two decades, his current work is as eagerly lapped up as his "classics". He is the only Golden Age rapper to have figured high in lists of albums of the noughties ย his team-up with producer Madlib for 2004's Madvillainy was considered by many to be the decade's best....
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Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' | Music | guardian.co.uk
