22/08 MF Doom Imposter

[Slimm]

I'm not sure if MF Doom is your cup of tea or not. But I thought you might be interested to learn that he's been sending impostors in his place to "perform" (read: lip sync) at some recent shows.

Last week, I was in San Francisco visiting friends, and thought it could be fun to catch the MF Doom show on 8/15 at the Independent. We were ushered in, and given stated instructions from the door man that pictures - even camera phones - were strictly prohibited, and anyone caught taking pictures would be ejected. I know that's policy at a lot of venues, but I've never been verbally warned before. After clenching my teeth through a gawd-awful set from spastic, Slug-derivative Pigeon John, the crowd was treated to about 2 hours of some wack-ass DJ. At some point, an announcement was made, reiterating that absolutely no pictures were allowed at this show, and that violators would be ejected.

Eventually, a bunch of hype men came on stage, while one of the songs off DangerMouse played. Out comes "Doom" looking about 100 pounds lighter than he has ever looked in a picture or video. I've never seen him live, however, so I thought that maybe he had just lost a lot of weight. His mic was turned way down low, and you couldn't hear his voice, and there was no crowd interaction between songs. Just this skinny "Doom", holding the mic real close to his face, and a bunch of hype men on the sides. 20 minutes later, it was all over. Huh?

I was pissed that I had just witnessed the worst show I've seen in my 29 years on this planet. However, it still hadn't dawned on me that I had just been played, until I heard some kid outside the club wondering if that was really even Daniel Dumile.

A quick look around the intertubes (see below) finds others who claim that this wasn't the real Doom. Furthermore, it sounds like he had pulled the same stunt a few nights prior at the El Rey in LA. He was a no-show for his Thursday night show in San Francisco, and also missed his Rock the Bells performance in SF.

Clearly, I'm none too happy, although I can see how d-bags like yourself might find it funny. I've yet to contact the Independent to see what their story is. But this was certainly something I think is newsworthy. I don't want others to drop $40 to go see some skinny-ass impostor lip sync Doom songs for 20 minutes like I did.

Here are some links to others (more or less) backing my story:

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/200 ... t_down.php
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/57119 ... 3666.event
http://dojothemouse.livejournal.com/216669.html
http://forums.undergroundhiphop.com/rea ... ID=1868749
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/tix/400995903.html
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/ ... frame=true

source, byron crawford

[Shads]

I Read The Following Last Night; When I Was Checking His Discography Out, But Due To Reading It On Wikipedia, It Wasnt That Credible, So I Didnt Post.

Fake Show Accusations

Daniel Dumile has recently been accused of fake appearances at concerts, most notably in Los Angeles at the El Rey Theater on August 12th and San Francisco at the Independent on August 15th 2007. It is rumored that a member of Doom’s entourage appeared on stage wearing the mask lip syncing through a 20 minute set. Opening acts for the San Francisco show confirmed that the microphone used by “Doom” was not plugged in. Enraged, fans in San Francisco began hurling bottles at the stage. The second show slated for the Independent the following night was cancelled. Shortly thereafter, his show in San Diego on August 19th 2007 was cancelled just two hours before being set to start. The manager at "Canes" where MF Doom was to perform stated that he had phoned in saying he was too sick to perform.

Video clips from the 2007 "Rock the Bells" tour have confirmed the performer claiming to be MF Doom was lip syncing. At one point in the performance, "Doom" is holding the microphone at arms length and the backing track clearly plays a short MF Doom lyric. As was the case with other shows, "Doom" did not speak to the crowd either during or in-between songs.

[Tash8]

hahahahahaha

[DrRapid]

Throwing bottles at the stage! Nice!

[AspirinE]

Doom been on tours all summer. This story is way too exaggerated.

and im guessing this is the show its talking bout.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CWiTRz7-VZw

Im a doom fan, and it still looks like doom to me. too skinny lol.... on some conspiracy theory shit.

and about "lipsyncing" ... anyone who's watched his live performances knows he does it live, The motherfucker could be feeling not to well.. who the fuck knows, he could just cancel the show.

Plus to me it doesnt sound lypsinced since the flow aint 100% the same as the actual song.

Second song in the video, is CLEARLY performed live.



Very nice little story from someone who says "ive never seen him live, but he looked 100 pounds lighter"

it still hadn't dawned on me that I had just been played, until I heard some kid outside the club wondering if that was really even Daniel Dumile.

gullible bitches.


reminds me of the time when on this board, eminem groupies were saying that it wasnt eminem who got fat on some photos, it was his "twin"

[Tash8]

reminds me of the time when on this board, eminem groupies were saying that it wasnt eminem who got fat on some photos, it was his "twin"

u serious?

[Slimm]

reminds me of the time when on this board, eminem groupies were saying that it wasnt eminem who got fat on some photos, it was his "twin"

u serious?

i remember that, that was funny lol