Editing MF Doom (section)

==Early life==
Daniel Dumile was born Dumile Daniel Thompson in the [[Hounslow]] district of London on July 13, 1971,<ref name=yoo2021>{{Cite web |last=Yoo |first=Noah |date=June 22, 2021 |title=Untangling MF DOOM's Lifelong Struggle With the U.S. Immigration System |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/article/untangling-mf-dooms-lifelong-struggle-with-the-us-immigration-system/|access-date=September 17, 2021 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=bbc20201231>{{Cite news |date=December 31, 2020 |title=MF Doom: Hip-hop star dies aged 49 |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55504199|access-date=January 1, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101051505/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55504199|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=okp>{{Cite web |date=January 9, 2021 |title=Everyone, Including Us, Thought January 9th was MF DOOM's Birthday – It's Not |url=https://www.okayplayer.com/music/january-9-not-mf-doom-birthday.html|access-date=January 10, 2021 |website=[[Okayplayer]] |language=en-US|archive-date=January 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110122553/https://www.okayplayer.com/music/january-9-not-mf-doom-birthday.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father.<ref name=lester2012>{{Cite news |last=Lester |first=Paul |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/aug/16/doom-key-to-the-kuffs |title=Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' |date=August 16, 2012 |work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=February 25, 2020 |issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225043806/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/aug/16/doom-key-to-the-kuffs|archive-date=February 25, 2020|url-status=live |id={{ProQuest|1033747721}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thesource.com/2020/01/09/happy-48th-birthday-to-the-legendary-mf-doom/ |title=Happy 48th Birthday to the Legendary MF Doom |last=Allah |first=Sha Be |date=January 9, 2020 |website=[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225043808/https://thesource.com/2020/01/09/happy-48th-birthday-to-the-legendary-mf-doom/|archive-date=February 25, 2020|access-date=February 25, 2020}}</ref> He later said that he was conceived in the United States, where his parents lived, and happened to be born in London because his mother was visiting family there.<ref name="Mlynar">{{Cite web |last=Mlynar |first=Phillip |date=August 16, 2012 |title=A Revealing DOOM Q&A: Supervillain on Nas' Pool Parties, His Rap-Hating Mom |url=https://www.spin.com/2012/08/a-revealing-doom-qa-supervillain-on-nas-pool-parties-his-rap-hating-mom/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034236/https://www.spin.com/2012/08/a-revealing-doom-qa-supervillain-on-nas-pool-parties-his-rap-hating-mom/|archive-date=November 12, 2020|access-date=January 1, 2021 |website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 9, 2021 |title=A candid interview with DOOM from 2014 {{!}} Sampleface |url=https://sampleface.co.uk/candid-interview-doom-2014/ |access-date=November 18, 2022 |website=sampleface.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> As a child, Dumile moved with his family to [[Long Beach, New York]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levine |first=Mike |chapter=MF Doom |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|title-link=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=September 3, 2014 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2267192}}</ref> where he grew up in a [[Black nationalism|black nationalist]] [[Islam|Muslim]] household as part of the [[Five-Percent Nation|{{nowrap|Five-Percent}} Nation]].{{sfn|Hsu|2005|p=48}} He said he had no memory of his London childhood and defined himself as a "New York nigga",<ref name="Mlynar" /> but remained a British citizen his entire life and never gained American citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morrison |first=Sean |date=December 31, 2020 |title=Rapper and producer MF Doom dies aged 49 |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/mf-doom-death-rapper-and-producer-dies-aged-49-b603297.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101172341/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/mf-doom-death-rapper-and-producer-dies-aged-49-b603297.html|archive-date=January 1, 2021|access-date=January 1, 2021 |website=[[Evening Standard]] |language=en}}</ref> He began DJing during the summer after third grade.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Paine |first=Jake |date=November 28, 2018 |title=This 2003 Conversation With MF DOOM Is The Interview Of His Career |url=https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2018/11/mf-doom-interview-audio-metalface/|access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Ambrosia For Heads|archive-date=December 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231234057/https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2018/11/mf-doom-interview-audio-metalface/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=DOOM |url=https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/doom-lecture|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231234133/https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/doom-lecture/|archive-date=December 31, 2020|access-date=December 31, 2020 |publisher=[[Red Bull Music Academy]]}}</ref> As a child, he was a fan and collector of comic books and earned the nickname "Doom" (a phonetic play on the name Dumile) among friends and family.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coleman |first=Brian |date=April 10, 2016 |title=Check The Technique: The Birth of MF Doom |url=https://medium.com/cuepoint/check-the-technique-kmds-black-bastards-and-the-birth-of-mf-doom-1849f4c0a6f4|access-date=January 14, 2021 |website=Medium |language=en|archive-date=November 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115100709/https://medium.com/cuepoint/check-the-technique-kmds-black-bastards-and-the-birth-of-mf-doom-1849f4c0a6f4|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Ryan |title=MF Doom |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/mf-doom|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101172407/https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/mf-doom|archive-date=January 1, 2021|access-date=January 1, 2021 |website=Contemporary Musicians}}</ref>