Thom Yorke of Radiohead paid tribute to rapper and producer MF DOOM, who recently passed away at the age of 49.
News of DOOM’s death was confirmed late on Thursday (December 31) by his wife Jasmine, who posted a tribute to the hip-hop legend’s Instagram account.
She revealed that DOOM (real name Daniel Dumile) died on October 31, 2020. Her cause of death has yet to be confirmed.
Since then, tributes have been received, and among those offering their condolences is Yorke, who has collaborated with DOOM on a number of occasions throughout his career.
“I’m so sad to hear of MF Doom’s death,” he tweeted. “He was a great inspiration to many of us, it changed things … for me, the way he put words used to be shocking in his genius, using the flow of consciousness in a way I had never heard before.”
I am so sad to hear the passing of MF Doom. He was a great inspiration to many of us, it changed things … for me, the way he put the words was often shocking in his genius, using the flow of consciousness in a way I had never heard before … 🙏 https: // t. co / qzqwdYmTcl
– Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) January 2, 2021
In 2009, Yorke remixed DOOM’s ‘Gazzillion Ear’, a track that was offered as a bonus cut on the rapper’s last solo album, ‘Born Like This’.
In addition to the remix, Yorke and Radiohead’s bandmate Jonny Greenwood also appeared on DOOM’s ‘Retarded Fren’ 2012 track and Jneiro Jarel, taken from the JJ DOOM LP’s Butter edition, ‘Key To The Kuffs’.
DOOM once suggested that a joint album with Yorke was underway, but the project never materialized.
Speaking for 3D World reviewed in 2011, he said he was doing “some things” with the Radiohead frontman, adding that he was “cool” and had “lots of crazy ideas and stuff”.
“We are working on some duets, some duet songs and stuff. As a preliminary shit, but we will probably end up making an entire album together, ”he said.
Meanwhile, Flying Lotus revealed that he and DOOM were working on an EP together before the rapper passed away.
After paying tribute to DOOM on Twitter, a fan suggested to FlyLo that fans were anticipating more collaborations from the two, specifically a longer project, to which he revealed that they were actually working on such a project.
“I hate to say that, but we were actually working on an EP,” he wrote. “There were more songs that I hadn’t even heard.” He gave no further details, but it appears that they were unable to close the matter before his untimely death.
Elsewhere, Lupe Fiasco paid tribute to MF DOOM with a new freestyle.