Cult underground rapper and producer MF Doom has quashed rumours that he's sent masked nobodies to do his business.
Online chatter has been going overboard of late that MF Doom has been using stand-ins. The producer and rapper who recorded the infamous 'The Mouse And The Mask' album with Dangermouse (one half of Gnarls Barkley) regularly uses pseudonyms and performs in a mask modelled from comic villain Dr Doom.At recent LA and San Francisco shows he has been accused of lip-synching to the point that many attending presumed that the man on stage behind the mask was a stand-in. The figure on stage was noticeably thinner than the usual MF Doom, and he then cancelled subsequent appearances.
He responded on his Stone's Throw label website stating that he wasn't lip-synching (asking people to check the YouTubes), noting that indeed he "lost some pounds" and that he's not in hospital but rather in the studio. He said that he's been recording on some J Dilla tracks for the forthcoming 'B-Ball Zombie War' album. The mystique lives on.
