In the late nineties, at the height of the divide between mainstream and underground rap, MF Doom (re-)emerged to wave the flag for the backpacker set, and in doing so, helped to change the landscape ...

MF Doom, the cerebral and willfully mysterious rapper and producer beloved by hip-hop connoisseurs for the complex rhymes he delivered from behind a metallic mask, has died. He was 49. His death was ...