“He kept breaking it down to me until he finally planted the seed in me,” Questlove recalled.

Questlove shared a hilarious anecdote on how Yasiin Bey turned him an MF DOOM fan. In honor of the late rapper’s passing back in October (and news of his death surfacing earlier this month), Vulture published a feature speaking to DOOM fans and some of his collaborators, with everyone from Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf to Bishop Nehru speaking on the MC.

Among those interviewed was Questlove, who recounted the time Yasiin Bey really put him on to DOOM. Per Vulture:

It was the Voodoo record-release party for D’Angelo [in 2000], and Mos Def showed up in his kitted-up, chauffeur-driven van with music blasting. He rolled down the window and said to me, “Yo, you gotta get in here.” I tried to convey to him that Mark Ronson and I were DJ-ing the party, but he was like, “No, man. We gotta have a discussion.” I was preparing myself for some kind of deep talk, but he just started preaching the gospel of DOOM. I’m talking a 40-minute monologue, almost something like a Jehovah’s Witness would preach, trying to convert me to a new religion. He was like, “Do you understand the majestic gift that is Operation: Doomsday?” At the time, I had been listening to it with a different set of ears. [I said] “Oh, is that Zev Love X’s project?”

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