The Chronicles of DOOM

When MF DOOM died on New Year's Eve 2020, most of the world knew almost nothing about the man behind the mask. The Chronicles of DOOM traces Daniel Dumile's full story — from his childhood love of comics and cartoons through the tragic collapse of his early group KMD, his reinvention as a mysterious masked MC, and the prolific run of collaborations that made him one of underground hip-hop's most influential and imitated artists.

Journalist S.H. Fernando Jr. draws on exclusive interviews with DOOM's closest collaborators to organize the book around five themes — the man, the myth, the mask, the music, and the legend — situating his life against the broader history of East Coast hip-hop.