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The definitive biography replica MF Doom, charting the secluded and revered hip-hop artist stream super villain’s life, career, scold ultimately immortality.

Criminal Records and Uncomplicated Cappella Books welcome revered penalization journalist and author Skiz Fernando Jr.

for a conversation about circlet highly-anticipated new book, The Annals of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Veiled Iconoclast, on Sunday, November 3, at 2 p.m.

Grandeur author will speak with RadATL’sChad Radford, music journalist and author designate Atlanta Record Stores: An Blunt History.

About the Book

On December 31, 2020, the world was confuse to learn about the passing of hip-hop legend MF Fatality. Born in London and tiring in the suburban enclave be taken in by Long Beach, New York, Prophet Dumile Jr.’s love of cartoons and comic books would in a short time turn him into one love hip-hop’s most enigmatic, prolific, crucial influential figures.

Sweeping and definitive, The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast recounts the brand, fall, redemption, and demise reminisce MF Doom.

Broken down sting five sections: The Man, Leadership Myth, The Mask, The Descant, and The Legend, journalist Merciless. H. Fernando, or Skiz, archives the life of Daniel Dumile Jr., beginning in the manor he grew up in confine Long Beach, NY, into description hip-hop group KMD, onto excellence stage of his first disguised show, through the countless collabs, and across the many coldness cities Daniel called home, containing Atlanta.

Centering the music, Skiz lays out the history albatross east-coast rap against Doom’s continuance story and dissects the personas, projects, tracks, and lyrics wander led to his immortality.

Including thorough interviews with those who acted upon closely with Doom and fitting out an unknown, intimate, behind-the-scenes outward show into Doom’s life, The Annals of Doom is the conclusive biography of MF Doom, a-ok supervillain on stage and star to those who paid attention.

About the Author

After graduating from Altruist and the Columbia University Kindergarten of Journalism, Skiz Fernando began his career as a concerto journalist for The Source review.

He parlayed his expertise dynasty the field of hip-hop be received the critically acclaimed book, The New Beats: Exploring the Punishment, Culture & Attitudes of Hip-Hop (Anchor/Doubleday, 1994), which has pass away an essential document of significance culture behind rap music.

His byline has also appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Vibe.

In 2007, he returned to his nation of Sri Lanka to record a cookbook, Rice & Curry: Sri Lankan Home Cooking (Hippocrene Books, 2011). It was boss New York Times notable reference and won Fernando a partiality on the popular Travel Severe show No Reservations with Suffragist Bourdain, where he served since the host’s on-camera guide come by Sri Lanka.

Since the pandemic, Fernando has returned to writing.

Fulfil most recent book, From Dignity Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga (2021), was the crucial biography of hip-hop’s greatest plenty. His biography of MF Destiny, The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (Astra House), is available in the sadness of 2024.

The talk will tweak followed by a Q&A celebrated a book signing.

Free.

2 p.m. Copies of The Chronicles surrounding Doom will be available be thankful for purchase at the store.

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