Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire
#MF Doom #West Yorkshire #Leeds #Hip-hop #Afrodeutsche #Adam Batty #BBC 6 Music
📌 Key Takeaways
- A new BBC podcast investigates MF Doom’s final years spent in West Yorkshire.
- The rapper moved to the UK permanently in 2010 after facing US immigration complications.
- Local accounts place the global icon in mundane settings, such as an Otley remote-control car shop.
- The investigation sheds light on how one of hip-hop's most influential figures lived in relative anonymity.
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🏷️ Themes
Music History, Biography, Investigation
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<p>Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds </p><p>The hunt for clues about the life of the masked rapper MF Doom had taken Adam Batty to some strange places, none more so than a remote-control car shop in the market town of Otley, West Yorkshire.</p><p>Rumour had it that Doom, who died in Leeds in 2020, had spent thousands in the shop. Other sightings placed him in the indie venue <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music