84-402: Daniel Dumile (born Dumile Daniel Thompson ; / ˈ d uː m ə l eɪ / DOO -mə-lay ; July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020), also known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom (both stylized in all caps ), was a British-American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Noted for his intricate wordplay, signature metal mask, and " supervillain " stage persona, he became
168-484: A black nationalist Muslim household as part of the Five-Percent Nation . He said he had no memory of his London childhood and defined himself as a "New York nigga", but remained a British citizen his entire life and never gained American citizenship. He began DJing during the summer after third grade. As a child, he was a fan and collector of comic books and earned the nickname "Doom" (a phonetic play on
252-625: A graffiti crew ; they also practiced breakdance . Onyx the Birthstone Kid soon replaced Jade 1, who left the group in order to finish high school. MC Serch , a native of nearby Far Rockaway , met the group at community functions and recruited them for a guest spot on "The Gas Face," a single off 3rd Bass ' The Cactus Album . The guest appearance caught the attention of A&R executive Dante Ross , who signed KMD to Elektra Records . KMD released their debut album Mr. Hood in 1991. Its songs focus on racism and black empowerment in
336-463: A Doom compilation, The Missing Notebook Rhymes , that would consist of songs from his upcoming projects and featured appearances on other artists' songs. The Adult Swim website was to release one new song per week over the course of 15 weeks. However, the arrangement was canceled in September after the release of only seven tracks. In February 2018, Dumile and Czarface released "Nautical Depth",
420-657: A backstory he could reference in his music. The character combines elements from the Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom , Destro , and the Phantom of the Opera ; like Doctor Doom and Phantom, Dumile referred to himself in the third person while in character. His signature mask was similar to that of Doctor Doom, who is depicted rapping on the cover of Dumile's 1999 debut album Operation: Doomsday . Dumile wore
504-479: A black man to second-class citizenship". Dumile sometimes sent stand-ins to perform in the mask, which he saw as a "logical extension" of the concept but angered audiences. Dumile initially claimed that he had lost weight and thus looked and sounded different. At a 2010 show in Toronto, an imposter was booed off stage before being replaced by Dumile. In an interview with The New Yorker , Dumile described himself as
588-579: A brief notice for a 2013 reissue of Take Me to Your Leader , called it "arguably the most cinematic" of Dumile's albums from the turn of the 21st century. Later in 2003, Dumile released the LP Vaudeville Villain under the moniker Viktor Vaughn (another play on Doctor Doom, who is also known as Victor von Doom). NME described the Viktor Vaughn persona as "a time travelling street hustler". Pitchfork named Vaudeville Villain
672-453: A comical manner. Subroc heavily sampled old children's television shows and recordings, including drops of Sesame Street character Bert on the singles "Who Me?" and "Humrush." Skits featuring KMD interacting with "Mr. Hood" (a series of samples from a language instruction tape) tie the album together. Stimulated Dummies co-produced Mr. Hood ; the album also featured fellow Five Percenters , Brand Nubian appearing on "Nitty Gritty." Around
756-689: A commonly preferred alternative to all caps text is the use of small caps to emphasise key names or acronyms (for example, Text in Small Caps ), or the use of italics or (more rarely) bold . In addition, if all caps must be used it is customary to slightly widen the spacing between the letters, by around 10 per cent of the point height. This practice is known as tracking or letterspacing. Some digital fonts contain alternative spacing metrics for this purpose. Messages completely in capital letters are often equated on social media to shouting and other impolite or argumentative behaviors. This became
840-483: A computer program shouting at its user. Information technology journalist Lee Hutchinson described Microsoft's using the practice as "LITERALLY TERRIBLE ... [it] doesn't so much violate OS X's design conventions as it does take them out behind the shed, pour gasoline on them, and set them on fire." In programming, writing in all caps (possibly with underscores replacing spaces ) is an identifier naming convention in many programming languages that symbolizes that
924-495: A delicate scanning of characters (from a damaged image that needs further contextual text correction). Depending on the typeface , these similarities accidentally create various duplicates (even quite briefly and without realizing it when reading). E.g. H/A, F/E or I/T by adding a bar; P/R, O/Q, even C/G from similar errors; V/U, D/O, even B/S while rounding the shape; and more deformations implying mixings. Adding digits in all caps styled texts may multiply these confusions, which
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#17327985160561008-461: A follow-up LP under the Viktor Vaughn moniker. Nathan Rabin noted in The A.V. Club that VV:2 , coming as it did after the commercial and critical success of Madvillainy , represented an unusual career choice for Dumile whereby he went "deeper underground" instead of embracing wider fame. Later in 2004, the second MF Doom album Mm..Food was released by Rhymesayers Entertainment . Pitchfork gave
1092-399: A mainstream interpretation with the advent of networked computers, from the 1980s onward. However, a similar interpretation was already evidenced by written sources that predated the computing era, in some cases by at least a century, and the textual display of shouting or emphasis was still not a settled matter by 1984. The following sources may be relevant to the history of all caps: Before
1176-538: A major figure of underground hip hop and alternative hip hop in the 2000s. Born in London and raised in Long Beach, New York , Dumile began his career in 1988 as a member of the trio KMD , performing as Zev Love X . The group disbanded in 1993 after the death of member DJ Subroc , Dumile's brother. After a hiatus, Dumile reemerged in the late 1990s. He began performing at open mic events while wearing
1260-459: A metal mask resembling that of the Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom , who is depicted on the cover of his 1999 debut solo album Operation: Doomsday . He adopted the MF Doom persona and rarely made unmasked public appearances thereafter. During Dumile's most prolific period, the early to mid-2000s, he released the acclaimed Mm..Food (2004) as MF Doom, as well as albums released under
1344-409: A new identity, MF Doom, with a mask similar to that of Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom . He later adopted a mask based on the one worn by Maximus, the protagonist of the 2000 film Gladiator . Bobbito Garcia 's Fondle 'Em Records released Operation: Doomsday , Dumile's first full-length LP as MF Doom, in 1999. Dumile's collaborators on Operation: Doomsday included fellow members of
1428-532: A slowed speed is possible – but in principle too many factors of low legibility are involved." Other critics are of the opinion that all caps letters in text are often "too tightly packed against each other". Besides the aforementioned speed of reading, all caps is can be prone to character -based ambiguities. Namely, the upper-case letters are globally simpler than their lower-case counterpart. For example, they lack ascenders and descenders . Since they are built from fewer positional and building elements (e.g.
1512-416: A smaller grid pertaining to minimalist digital fonts), they are more fragile to small changes. These variations, generally involuntary but sometimes induced on purpose, are caused by a misinterpretation (the information is transferred) or by a deterioration (the data is lost, in the analysis wording). They can occur horizontally and/or vertically, while misreading (without this extra effort or time), or during
1596-580: A solo artist. MF DOOM attempted to revive the KMD name in the 2010s, releasing two new songs, "Sorcerers" and "True Lightyears", and announcing a comeback album in 2017, but no further updates or recordings surfaced before his death in October 2020. Zev Love X, DJ Subroc, and Jade 1 formed KMD in Long Beach, New York , in 1988. The three were Black Muslims active in the Nuwaubian Nation . KMD began as
1680-663: A term is conspicuous, we look at more than formatting. A term that appears in capitals can still be inconspicuous if it is hidden on the back of a contract in small type. Terms that are in capitals but also appear in hard-to-read type may flunk the conspicuousness test. A sentence in capitals, buried deep within a long paragraph in capitals will probably not be deemed conspicuous...it is entirely possible for text to be conspicuous without being in capitals. Certain musicians—such as Marina , Finneas , who are both known mononymously, and MF DOOM —as well as some bands such as Haim and Kiss —have their names stylised in all caps. Additionally, it
1764-403: Is an "apparent consensus" that lower-case text is more legible, but that some editors continue to use all caps in text regardless. In his studies of all caps in headlines , he states that, "Editors who favor capitals claim that they give greater emphasis. Those who prefer lower case claim their preferences gives greater legibility." Wheildon, who informs us that "When a person reads a line of type,
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#17327985160561848-615: Is common for bands with vowelless names (a process colourfully known as " disemvoweling ") to use all caps, with prominent examples including STRFKR , MSTRKRFT , PWR BTTM , SBTRKT , JPNSGRLS (now known as Hotel Mira), BLK JKS , MNDR , and DWNTWN . Miles Tinker , renowned for his landmark work, Legibility of Print , performed scientific studies on the legibility and readability of all-capital print. His findings were as follows: All-capital print greatly retards speed of reading in comparison with lower-case type. Also, most readers judge all capitals to be less legible. Faster reading of
1932-435: Is less legible and readable than lower-case text. In addition, switching to all caps may make text appear hectoring and obnoxious for cultural reasons, since all-capitals is often used in transcribed speech to indicate that the speaker is shouting. All-caps text is common in comic books, as well as on older teleprinter and radio transmission systems, which often do not indicate letter case at all. In professional documents,
2016-515: Is one aim of Leet (intentional pseudo duplicates) and can provide simple means of concealing messages (often numbers). KMD KMD ( K.M.D. , Kausing Much Damage , or A Positive Kause in a Much Damaged Society ) was an American hip hop trio active from 1988 to 1994, during the golden age . The core of the group was composed of brothers Daniel "Zev Love X" Dumile and Dingilizwe "DJ Subroc" Dumile . The group's original third member, Jade 1 (believed to later be known as Rodan), left before
2100-475: Is scheduled for October 29, 2024. Dumile was married to his wife, Jasmine, for an unknown period until his death in October 2020. They had five children together. In late 2017, his son Malachi died from unspecified causes at the age of 14. Dumile's religious worldview was informed by Islam and the Afrocentrism espoused by African-American Muslims . His parents raised him and his brother as Muslims in
2184-566: The ASCII table , so can display both alphabets, but all caps only. Mikrosha is switchable to KOI-7N1, in this mode, it can display both caps and lower-case, but in Cyrillic only. Other Soviet computers, such as BK0010 , MK 85 , Corvette and Agat-9 , use 8-bit encoding called KOI-8R, they can display both Cyrillic and Latin in caps and lower-case. Many, but not all NES games use all caps because of tile graphics, where charset and tiles share
2268-603: The COVID-19 lockdown , his wife Jasmine was not allowed to visit him in the hospital until the day of his death. His death was unknown to the public for two months until Jasmine announced it on December 31, and the cause of death was not revealed until July 2023. Many musicians paid tribute to Dumile. His 2004 instrumental track "Coffin Nails" was included on U.S. president Joe Biden 's inauguration playlist in January 2021, which
2352-544: The Five-Percent Nation , a religious black nationalist movement influenced by Islam. Dumile's father taught him about pan-African history, including historical figures such as Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad —lessons that he then strove to impart upon his peers. By the early 1990s, Dumile and the other members of KMD identified as a member of the Ansaar Allah Community, later known as
2436-566: The Monsta Island Czars collective, for which each artist took on the persona of a monster from the Godzilla films. Dumile went by the alias "King Geedorah", a three-headed golden dragon space monster modeled after King Ghidorah . The album's productions sampled cartoons including Fantastic Four , something that became a staple of his music later on. Jon Caramanica , in a review of Operation: Doomsday for Spin , emphasized
2520-539: The Nuwaubian Nation . In their music, the members of KMD professed a religious message based on tenets of Nuwaubianism, which Dumile distinguished from Five-Percent beliefs in an early interview. In the music video for "Peachfuzz", Dumile and the other members of KMD wear kufi caps. By 2000, though he was no longer as strictly observant, Dumile still participated in Nuwaubian events such as the Savior's Day celebration at
2604-619: The Tama-Re compound in Georgia and held a positive opinion of the community. Although Dumile lived in the United States for most of his life, he never gained citizenship and remained solely a British citizen. He acquired a British passport prior to his 2010 European tour, and was refused re-entry to the United States after completing the tour later that year. It was only his second international tour, and he had previously avoided leaving
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2688-492: The "writer and director" of the character and that he "might send a white dude next ... Whoever plays the character plays the character." In November 2019, during his performance at the Adult Swim Festival, the electronic artist Flying Lotus announced that he would be joined onstage by Dumile. Instead, the masked figure who appeared on stage was revealed as the comedian Hannibal Buress . Dumile's involvement in
2772-573: The 1990s, more than three-quarters of newspapers in the western world used lower-case letters in headline text. Discussion regarding the use of all caps for headlines centers on the greater emphasis offered by all caps versus the greater legibility offered by lower-case letters. Colin Wheildon conducted a scientific study with 224 readers who analyzed various headline styles and concluded that "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." All caps typography
2856-452: The 5 and 10-minute time limits, and 13.9 percent for the whole 20-minute period". Tinker concluded that, "Obviously, all-capital printing slows reading to a marked degree in comparison with Roman lower case." Tinker provides the following explanations for why all capital printing is more difficult to read: Text in all capitals covers about 35 percent more printing surface than the same material set in lower case. This would tend to increase
2940-606: The United Kingdom, while Resident Advisor noted its play on Britishisms in tracks like "Guv'nor". NehruvianDoom , Dumile's collaboration with the rapper Bishop Nehru , was released on October 7, 2014. Dumile produced all the tracks on NehruvianDoom , often using beats developed in the Special Herbs series; vocals are primarily Nehru's, with some contributions from Dumile. The album was Nehru's major label debut. The limitations of Nehru's artistic achievement on
3024-527: The United States". He spent years living in Yorkshire , and was living in Leeds at the time of his death. In October 2020, Dumile was admitted to St James's University Hospital in Leeds with respiratory problems. On October 31, he died from angioedema , an adverse reaction to blood pressure medication he had recently been prescribed. He had suffered from high blood pressure and kidney disease . Due to
3108-461: The United States, Dumile never gained American citizenship; in 2010, he was denied reentry after returning from an international tour for his sixth and final solo album, Born Like This (2009). He moved to London before settling in Leeds and worked mostly in collaboration with other artists during his final years, releasing albums with Jneiro Jarel (as JJ Doom ), Bishop Nehru ( NehruvianDoom ), and Czarface ( Czarface Meets Metal Face , and
3192-603: The United States. He settled in the UK in 2010. Key to the Kuffs , an album Dumile made in collaboration with the producer Jneiro Jarel as JJ Doom , was released on August 20, 2012, and included guest features from Damon Albarn , Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Khujo Goodie of Goodie Mob and Dungeon Family , and Boston Fielder. Reviews of Key to the Kuffs in Pitchfork and Fact emphasized its references to Dumile's "exile" in
3276-411: The United States; he had believed he would be able to secure re-entry based on his long-term residency and family connections. The denial of re-entry forced him apart from his wife and children, and for nearly two years, he saw them only via video calls or during their brief visits to the United Kingdom. They were reunited when his family moved to London in 2012, after which he declared himself "done with
3360-406: The album Take Me to Your Leader under his King Geedorah moniker. In Pitchfork , Mark Martelli described Take Me to Your Leader as close to a concept album , noting how it lays out the "mythos" of the eponymous King Geedorah. Martelli praised the album, particularly tracks such as "One Smart Nigger" which, in his view, were superior to other artists' attempts at political hip hop . Fact , in
3444-471: The album a positive review. Nathan Rabin described it as a "crazy pastiche" but argued that it grew more coherent on repeated listening. Although still an independent artist, Dumile took a bigger step towards the mainstream in 2005 with The Mouse and the Mask , a collaboration with the producer DJ Danger Mouse under the group name Danger Doom . The album, released on October 11, 2005, by Epitaph and Lex ,
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3528-590: The album and dropped KMD. The album's title and cover art proved too controversial for Elektra's management, who instructed Dante Ross to give Zev Love X the Black Bastards master tapes and $ 20,000 as incentive to leave the label. The album was heavily bootlegged until it was officially released on ReadyRock Records in 2000. Zev Love X dropped out of the New York hip hop scene until 1997, when he reemerged as MF DOOM . On August 16, 2017, MF DOOM premiered
3612-506: The album its title. In early 2010, Dumile released the EP Gazzillion Ear on Lex, a compilation of remixes of "Gazzillion Ear" from Born Like This, including a remix by Thom Yorke and two mixes by Jneiro Jarel . A further remix by Madvillain featuring a voicemail message from Kanye West was released online. The EP coincided with Dumile's first performances outside North America. On March 5, 2010, Lex and Sónar presented
3696-399: The album were stressed by critics due to his relative youth (he was still in his teens when the album was produced) and the album's briefness, lasting just over 30 minutes. Dumile's contributions were also seen as limited: Pitchfork wrote that he often seemed on "autopilot", and XXL suggested that neither he nor Nehru were able to "push the envelope". In August 2017, Adult Swim announced
3780-436: The album with Czarface, Dumile's musical output in the final three years of his life was limited to one-off guest appearances on other artists' tracks. Posthumous releases included appearances on two songs for the video game Grand Theft Auto Online : "Lunch Break", with Flying Lotus ; and "The Chocolate Conquistadors", with BadBadNotGood , made for the game's content update The Cayo Perico Heist. Shortly after Dumile's death
3864-539: The collaboration. It remains unreleased. Dumile's Born Like This was released on Lex Records on March 24, 2009. The album was Dumile's first solo album to chart in the US. In a largely favorable review for Pitchfork , Nate Patrin cast the album as a return to form for Dumile, following a period of limited output. He observed that Dumile's lyrics and flow—"a focused rasp that's subtly grown slightly more ragged and intense"—were darker than on earlier records. He also highlighted
3948-470: The contrast between Dumile's flow as Zev Love X in KMD and his revised approach as a solo artist: "Doom's flow is muddy, nowhere near the sprightly rhymes of KMD's early days, and his thought process is haphazard." Caramanica revisited Operation: Doomsday in The New York Times in 2021, calling it "one of the most idiosyncratic hip-hop albums of the 1990s, and one of the defining documents of
4032-462: The development of lower-case letters in the 8th century, texts in the Latin alphabet were written in a single case, which is now considered to be capital letters. Text in all caps is not widely used in body copy . The main exception to this is the so-called fine print in legal documents. Capital letters have been widely used in printed headlines from the early days of newspapers until the 1950s. In
4116-534: The evidence that all-capital printing retards speed of reading to a striking degree in comparison with lower case and is not liked by readers, it would seem wise to eliminate such printing whenever rapid reading and consumer (reader) views are of importance. Examples of this would include any continuous reading material, posters, bus cards, billboards, magazine advertising copy, headings in books, business forms and records, titles of articles, books and book chapters, and newspaper headlines. Colin Wheildon stated that there
4200-538: The eye recognizes letters by the shapes of their upper halves", asserts that recognizing words in all caps "becomes a task instead of a natural process". His conclusions, based on scientific testing in 1982–1990, are: "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." John Ryder , in the Case for Legibility , stated that "Printing with capital letters can be done sufficiently well to arouse interest and, with short lines, reading at
4284-522: The first Doom show in London, at the Roundhouse in Camden. Expektoration , Dumile's second live album, was released on September 14, 2010, through Gold Dust. In a review of Expektoration , Pitchfork noted that Dumile's vocal performance was more energetic than on his recordings, which it characterized as "laidback" by comparison. After completing his European tour, Dumile was refused re-entry into
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#17327985160564368-578: The first single from their collaborative album Czarface Meets Metal Face . The album was released on March 30, 2018. In a lukewarm review for Pitchfork , Mehan Jayasuriya compared verses by Open Mike Eagle favorably to Dumile's, but noted that Dumile's contribution to "Nautical Depth" exhibited his "once razor-sharp lyricism". Ben Beaumont-Thomas, in The Guardian , was more positive, noting Dumile's "stoner surrealism" in "Captain Crunch". Aside from
4452-569: The given identifier represents a constant . A practice exists (most commonly in Francophone countries) of distinguishing the surname from the rest of a personal name by stylizing the surname only in all caps. This practice is also common among Japanese, when names are spelled using Roman letters. In April 2013, the U.S. Navy moved away from an all caps-based messaging system, which was begun with 1850s-era teleprinters that had only uppercase letters. The switch to mixed-case communications
4536-525: The group during the recording sessions. His verse was removed from "Plumskinzz" (the B-side to the "Nitty Gritty" single off Mr. Hood ), which was included on Black Bastards as two separate tracks, "Plumskinzz.(Loose Hoe, God&Cupid)" (Zev Love X's verse) and "Plumskinzz.(Oh No I Don't Believe It!)" (Subroc's verse). Zev Love X created the cover art, a Sambo caricature being hanged in a game of hangman . Shortly before finishing Black Bastards , Subroc
4620-503: The group signed with Elektra Records , being replaced with Onyx the Birthstone Kid. The group dissolved in 1994 following the sudden death of DJ Subroc in 1993, the departure of Onyx and conflicts with Elektra that resulted in them being dropped from the label. KMD released two studio albums, Mr. Hood (1991) and Black Bastards ; the latter of which was recorded in 1993 and not officially released until 2000. Zev Love X subsequently changed his moniker to MF DOOM and achieved success as
4704-545: The independent hip-hop explosion of that decade". Cyril Cordor, in a review for AllMusic , described Operation: Doomsday as Dumile's "rawest" lyrical effort. In 2001, Dumile began releasing his Special Herbs instrumentals series under the pseudonym Metal Fingers. In a review of a 2011 box set containing ten volumes of the Special Herbs series, Pitchfork observed that the instrumentals stand on their own without vocal tracks: "most of these tracks sound plenty 'finished' even in rhyme-less form". In 2003, Dumile released
4788-483: The last verse on "The Gas Face"; according to Pete Nice 's verse on the track, Dumile created the phrase. On April 23, 1993, just before the release of the second KMD album, Black Bastards , Subroc was struck by a car and killed while crossing the Long Island Expressway . Dumile completed the album alone over the course of several months, and it was announced with a release date of May 3, 1994. KMD
4872-567: The lower-case print is due to the characteristic word forms furnished by this type. This permits reading by word units, while all capitals tend to be read letter by letter. Furthermore, since all-capital printing takes at least one-third more space than lower case, more fixation pauses are required for reading the same amount of material. The use of all capitals should be dispensed with in every printing situation. According to Tinker, "As early as 1914, Starch reported that material set in Roman lower case
4956-495: The mask while performing, and would not be photographed without it, except for short glimpses in videos and in earlier photos with KMD. Later versions of the mask were based on a prop from the 2000 film Gladiator . Academic Hershini Bhana Young argued that, by appropriating the Doctor Doom mask, Dumile "positions himself as enemy, not only of the music industry but also of dominant constructions of identity that relegate him as
5040-554: The mid-90s. According to Dumile, he was "recovering from his wounds" and vowing revenge "against the industry that so badly deformed him". Black Bastards had been bootlegged by that time, but was not officially released until 2000. In 1997 or 1998, Dumile began freestyling incognito at open-mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, obscuring his face by putting tights over his head. He turned this into
5124-497: The name Dumile) among friends and family. Under the name Zev Love X, Dumile formed the hip hop group KMD in 1988 with his younger brother DJ Subroc and Rodan, who was later replaced by Onyx the Birthstone Kid. A&R representative Dante Ross learned of KMD through the hip hop group 3rd Bass and signed them to Elektra Records . Their recording debut came on 3rd Bass's song "The Gas Face" on The Cactus Album , followed in 1991 by their debut album Mr. Hood . Dumile performed
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#17327985160565208-499: The nerdy without a heavy cloak of irony". In the same year, Dumile appeared on the second Gorillaz album, Demon Days . Dumile produced tracks for both of Ghostface Killah 's 2006 albums Fishscale and More Fish . In February 2013, Ghostface Killah said that he and Dumile were in the process of choosing tracks for a collaborative album. In 2015, Ghostface Killah announced that the album, Swift & Changeable , would be released in 2016, and later posted promotional artwork for
5292-523: The opportunity to add marginal notes emphasising key points. Legal writing expert Bryan A. Garner has described the practice as "ghastly". A 2020 study found that all-caps in legal texts is ineffective and is, in fact, harmful to older readers. In 2002, a US court spoke out against the practice, ruling that simply making text all-capitals has no bearing on whether it is clear and easily readable: Lawyers who think their caps lock keys are instant "make conspicuous" buttons are deluded. In determining whether
5376-487: The overtly homophobic "Batty Boyz", a diss track against unnamed rappers. Steve Yates, reviewing the album in The Guardian , likewise saw Born Like This as hearkening back to Dumile's earlier output. Yates felt it presented Dumile at "his scalpel-tongued, scatter-mouthed best". Both Patrin and Yates noted the influence of Charles Bukowski on Born Like This : the first line of Bukowski's poem "Dinosauria, We" gives
5460-506: The posthumous Super What? ). On Halloween 2020, he died in a Leeds hospital from angioedema following a reaction to a blood pressure medication . After his death, Variety described him as one of hip hop's "most celebrated, unpredictable and enigmatic figures". Daniel Dumile was born Dumile Daniel Thompson in the Hounslow district of London on July 13, 1971, the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father. He later said that he
5544-408: The prank was not confirmed. Dumile was celebrated in independent hip hop. After his death, the producer Flying Lotus wrote of Madvillainy : "All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record. Sorted. Done. Give it to the fucking aliens." The English musician Thom Yorke , who twice collaborated with Dumile, wrote: "He was a massive inspiration to so many of us, changed things... For me the way he put words
5628-440: The pseudonyms King Geedorah and Viktor Vaughn . Madvillainy (2004), recorded with the producer Madlib under the name Madvillain , is often cited as Dumile's magnum opus and is regarded as a landmark album in hip hop. Madvillainy was followed by another acclaimed collaboration, The Mouse and the Mask (2005), with the producer Danger Mouse , released under the name Danger Doom . Though he lived most of his life in
5712-489: The reading time. When this is combined with the difficulty in reading words in all-capital letters as units, the hindrance to rapid reading becomes marked. In the eye-movement study by Tinker and Patterson, the principal difference in oculomotor patterns between lower case and all capitals was the very large increase in number of fixation pauses for reading the all-capital print. All caps text should be eliminated from most forms of composition, according to Tinker: Considering
5796-572: The same ROM. Game designers often choose to have less characters in favor of more tiles. With the advent of the bulletin board system , or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps commonly became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behavior, and may be considered rude. Its equivalence to shouting traces back to at least 1984 and before the Internet, back to printed typography usage of all capitals to mean shouting. For this reason, etiquette generally discourages
5880-693: The same time Mr. Hood was released, Zev Love X and Onyx testified before the United States Congress in support of the National Voter Registration Act , on behalf of Rock the Vote . The group recorded their follow up, Black Bastards , in 1993. The album was a departure from their lighthearted previous release with songs celebrating sex ("Plumskinnz"), drugs ("Smokin' That S*#%", "Contact Blitz", "Suspended Animation"), and drinking ("Sweet Premium Wine"). Onyx left
5964-425: The titles on book covers. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym . Studies have been conducted on the readability and legibility of all caps text. Scientific testing from the 20th century onward has generally indicated that all caps text
6048-581: The use of all caps when posting messages online. While all caps can be used as an alternative to rich-text "bolding" for a single word or phrase, to express emphasis, repeated use of all caps can be considered "shouting" or irritating. Some aspects of Microsoft's Metro design language involve the use of all caps headings and titles. This has received particular attention when menu and ribbon titles appeared in all caps in Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 , respectively. Critics have compared this to
6132-503: The week's best new album and highlighted its lyricism, writing that Dumile was one of the best writers in rap. Dumile's breakthrough came in 2004 with the album Madvillainy , created with producer Madlib under the group name Madvillain . They recorded the album in a series of sessions over two years before a commercial release on March 23, 2004. Madvillainy was a critical and commercial success, and has since become known as Dumile's masterpiece. Also in 2004, Dumile released VV:2 ,
6216-476: Was "loose and conversational, but delivered with technical precision", and his use of rhyme and meter eclipsed that of Big Pun and Eminem . Dumile's production work frequently incorporated samples and quotations from film. A review of Special Herbs volumes 5 and 6 in CMJ New Music Monthly compared Dumile's beats to " soul jazz ". Dumile created the MF Doom character as an alter ego with
6300-734: Was announced, Flying Lotus revealed that they had been working on an EP. Having been completed in early 2020 but later delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Dumile's second collaborative album with Czarface and first posthumous release, Super What? , was released in May 2021. Dumile's lyrics are known for wordplay . Bradley and DuBois, describing Dumile as "among the most enigmatic figures in hip-hop", wrote that Dumile's "raspy baritone weaves an intricate web of allusions drawn from comic books and metaphysics along with seeming nonsense and non sequiturs". According to an obituary in The Ringer , his flow
6384-580: Was common on teletype machines, such as those used by police departments, news, and the United States' then-called Weather Bureau , as well as early computers, such as certain early Apple II models and the ZX81 , which had a limited support for lower-case text. This changed as full support of ASCII became standard, allowing lower-case characters. Some Soviet computers , such as Radio-86RK , Vector-06C , Agat-7 , use 7-bit encoding called KOI-7N2, where capital Cyrillic letters replace lower-case Latin letters in
6468-409: Was conceived in the United States, where his parents lived, and happened to be born in London because his mother was visiting family there. He had four younger siblings, including fellow rapper DJ Subroc (1973–1993), with whom he formed the rap group KMD until Subroc was struck and killed by a car at the age of 19. As a child, Dumile moved with his family to Long Beach, New York , where he grew up in
6552-435: Was criticized by fans of Dumile as Biden was the vice president in 2010 when Dumile was refused re-entry to the United States. All caps In typography , text or font in all caps (short for " all capitals ") contains capital letters without any lowercase letters. For example: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements , newspaper headlines , and
6636-460: Was developed in collaboration with Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim and featured voice actors and characters from its programs (mostly Aqua Teen Hunger Force ). The Mouse and the Mask reached #41 on the Billboard 200 . Critic Chris Vognar, discussing the role of comedy in hip hop, argued that "Doom and Danger exemplify an absurdist strain in recent independent hip-hop, a willingness to embrace
6720-479: Was dropped by Elektra and the album went unreleased due to its controversial cover art, which featured a cartoon of a stereotypical pickaninny or sambo character being hanged. After his brother's death, Dumile retreated from the hip hop scene from 1994 to 1997, living "damn near homeless, walking the streets of Manhattan , sleeping on benches". In the late 1990s, he settled in Atlanta ; he had moved to Georgia in
6804-496: Was estimated to save the Navy $ 20 million a year and is compliant with current Internet protocol. An antiquated practice that still remains in use, especially by older American lawyers who grew up before the arrival of computers, is to use all caps text for text that is legally required to be emphasised and clearly readable. The practice dates to the period of typewriters, which generally did not offer bold text, small capitals, or
6888-465: Was killed while attempting to cross the 878 Nassau Expressway on April 23, 1993. Zev Love X completed the album alone over the course of the next months and advance copies were finally sent out in early 1994. "What a Nigga Know?" was released as the first single in March that same year and Black Bastards was announced to be released on May 3, 1994. Soon afterwards Elektra Records unexpectedly cancelled
6972-505: Was often shocking in its genius, using stream of consciousness in a way I'd never heard before." Stereogum , reviewing Operation: Doomsday on its 20th anniversary, noted Dumile's "formative" influence on younger rappers. El-P of Run the Jewels described him as a "writer's writer", while Q-Tip called him "your favorite rapper's favorite rapper". A biography by S.H. Fernando, The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast ,
7056-427: Was read somewhat faster than similar material printed in all capitals." Another study in 1928 showed that "all-capital text was read 11.8 percent slower than lower case, or approximately 38 words per minute slower", and that "nine-tenths of adult readers consider lower case more legible than all capitals". A 1955 study by Miles Tinker showed that "all-capital text retarded speed of reading from 9.5 to 19.0 percent for
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