E291: MF DOOM Outro w/ S.H. Fernando Jr.

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Andy chat with S.H. Fernando Jr., aka Skiz, the author of Chronicles of DOOM Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast. We cover some hip hop history, DOOM's origins in underground hip hop and his emergence as crossover phenomenon in the aughts, his Nuwaubian background, getting kicked out of the US, and much more!

Sign up for our Patreon to hear the fun half, in which we talk about DOOM's relationship with Kanye and Diddy, his philosophy on art, what baseball team he likes, and hear some of Skiz's music recommendations.

Doom's Kanye assassination video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5jOg_VGMA

Songs in order: King Geedorah - No Snakes Left Alive

KMD - Humrush KMD - Who Me

Madvillain - Late Night Tails

DANGERDROOM - Crosshairs

Transcript

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0:00.0	Gidra has arrived.
0:06.8	You guys can take five by the time it's over.
0:09.6	No snakes alive.
0:11.1	Take the dive.
0:12.3	I'm telling you, you better off been up against the floor to make up.
0:15.1	One two.
0:16.6	One two.
0:17.2	I think we're good to.
0:18.7	Yeah, it's been great to see the Doom murals around town.
0:23.9	There's one right across from where I work on Broadway in Brooklyn, and it was great to read
0:30.2	this book.
0:31.2	I'm talking to S.H. Fernando Jr., aka. Skizz, The Chronicles of Doom, Unraveling Raps Masked Iconiclass.
0:40.3	It's a little bit of a different episode for us today, but we're going to be talking about
0:44.4	one of my favorite artists, M.F. Doom, and we are here with the author of the book.
0:49.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:51.2	Do you want to give a listener a little bit of a background on on your career and how
0:55.8	you came to write a book about doom? Yeah, sure. Well, you know, as we were talking before,
1:01.2	I kind of came up in New York. I started there at journalism school at Columbia. And then I moved to
1:10.5	Brooklyn. And my I moved to Brooklyn.
1:12.0	And my first book, I got a book deal right out of journalism school.
1:16.4	My first book was called The New Beats,
1:18.3	Exploring the Music, Culture, and Attitudes of Hip Hop,
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