DOOM impostors aren’t a new phenomenon, but they’re usually not portrayed by someone who’s arguably more famous than the man himself.
That’s what happened though when comedian Hannibal Buress donned the mask to portray the enigmatic rapper during Flying Lotus a.k.a. Captain Murphy’s set at the 2019 Adult Swim Festival on Friday (November 15).
Lotus teased the crowd by claiming he brought DOOM “all the way from London” to the event in Los Angeles. Madvillain’s “Accordion” began to play and Buress — wearing DOOM’s signature mask — emerged on stage to lip-sync the performance.
The ruse didn’t last long as Lotus unmasked his friend to reveal the truth. The acclaimed producer then asked, “Hannibal, what are you doing here?”
Buress replied, “I wanted to help out. DOOM doesn’t do shows like that, man.”
DOOM has longstanding ties to Adult Swim, but the relationship between the two sides went sour in 2017.
The veteran MC and network teamed up that year for a series titled The Missing Notebook Rhymes, which was supposed to result in the release of 15 new DOOM tracks. But only seven weeks into the rollout, Adult Swim abruptly cut it short and removed all the songs from its site.
“Adult Swim is ending our relationship with DOOM, and thus, the remaining Missing Notebook Rhymes will unfortunately have to remain…missing,” the network said in a statement. “We are glad to have had the chance to provide the previous free tracks to our fans.”
Watch Buress play the role of DOOM above and check out past footage of an impostor portraying the masked rapper below.
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Bro this is actually incredible
DOOM been doing this for years. Any fans actually mad don’t get the point of DOOM at all.
I don’t care who DOOM is and I don’t even listen to his any songs since I remember one of his albums is called so stupid like MM…Food.
Stfu dummy. If you didn’t care you wouldn’t be here sounding goofy as hell. If your going to be salty at least learn to spell.
Lol you are acting like a kid haha did I hurt you so bad when I dissed DOOM? oh boy, go suck on your mama’s tit and grow up haha we call it critic, okay boy? And you are just mad to a critic? Damn boy, such a sentimental, short-tempered boy like you would most likely be having no friends puhahahaha it’s funny to imagine you typing your comment with your angry face thinking “my DOOM is so perfect… you can’t diss him” bahahahaha
Lmfao! Why not post it a fourth time? Now you look goofy and desperate. Damn talking about getting your feelings hurt!? You had to type that long weak ass rant three times!?? The irony is just too great. Enjoy being a lame ass. Peace fa990t
This clown thought they were being censored because they posted suck on your mommas tit! Lmfao then settled on daddy’s pen!s. Hold this L
Lol you are acting like a kid haha did I hurt you so bad when I dissed DOOM? oh boy, go suck on your daddy’s dicc and grow up haha we call it critic, okay boy? And you are just mad to a critic? Damn boy, such a sentimental, short-tempered boy like you would most likely be having no friends puhahahaha it’s funny to imagine you typing your comment with your angry face thinking “my DOOM is so perfect… you can’t diss him” bahahahaha
Lol you are acting like a kid haha did I hurt you so bad when I dissed DOOM? oh boy, go succ on your daddy’s pen!s and grow up haha we call it critic, okay boy? And you are just mad to a critic? Damn boy, such a sentimental, short-tempered boy like you would most likely be having no friends puhahahaha it’s funny to imagine you typing your comment with your angry face thinking “my DOOM is so perfect… you can’t diss him” bahahahaha
I like that album name. What you have against food?
Fuck Hanabil the snitch
Why you mad? Cuz he told on that rapist Cosby? Hannibal is great. You keyboard divas are pathetic.
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Dope move FlyLo. Hannibal with the assist. I’m sure this was DOOM approved. Hilarious. I hope Hannibal did a few minutes of stand up. He is one of the greatest alive nowadays IMO
I was front row for this!! Epic. The crowd got so hyped when we thought it was DOOM