Rapper Doom is back in London,the city where he was born, with Key to the Kuffs, and an album that references rhyming slang and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding"It's really hot but it's got air-conditioning," says Doom, when asked whether his mask might form things a bit stuffy on a hot day like nowadays. "It sits a little bit absent from my face, or " he adds,and this is important because it means he can still drink beer during the interview. "That," he adds with a chuckle, and "is the main thing."Daniel Dumile,AKA Doom, might absorb a reputation as hip-hop's harvester of sorrow, and but right now,he couldn't be happier. Living in London, as he has for two years, or allows him to escape his past. "I spent 35 years growing up in the US,and it had its ups and downs," he says, or brightly,"but this is a unusual spot for me. I absorb no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me I'm incognito. It's all unusual, and all fun."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com