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A Street Sweeper In Richmond, Virginia Has Been Named After MF DOOM
The city of Richmond, Virginia has landed on the name of MF BROOM for their new bike lane street sweeper, a nod to the late MF DOOM.
Richmond, Virginia is introducing a new bike lane street sweeper, landing on the name "MF BROOM" as a tribute to MF DOOM. Using a March Madness-style bracket, community organization Venture Richmond crowdsourced possible names for the street sweeper, including "LeBroom James," "The Grim Sweeper," "Kate Brush," "Meryl Sweep," "Dirt Reynolds," "Bike Dyson" and, of course, MF BROOM. The name, a nod to the late Madvillainy rapper, won with 59% of votes and beat out The Grim Sweeper, which came in second with 41% of votes.
"We crowdsourced name ideas, you voted, and the name of the new @DPW_RichmondVAbike lane sweeper is… MF BROOM," Venture Richmond tweeted on Friday (August 5). The city will also host an upcoming naming ceremony for the street sweeper, over a year after DOOM was honored with "KMD-MF DOOM Way" in Long Beach, New York last June.
\u201cThe people have spoken! We crowdsourced name ideas, you voted, and the name of the new @DPW_RichmondVA bike lane sweeper is... \ud83e\udd41\n\ud83c\udf89 MF BROOM \ud83c\udf89\nThe @CityRichmondVA will host a naming ceremony\u2014details coming soon. Until then, enjoy your clean bike lanes! #RVASweep16\u201d— Venture Richmond (@Venture Richmond) 1659711600
\u201cThe people have spoken! We crowdsourced name ideas, you voted, and the name of the new @DPW_RichmondVA bike lane sweeper is... \ud83e\udd41\n\ud83c\udf89 MF BROOM \ud83c\udf89\nThe @CityRichmondVA will host a naming ceremony\u2014details coming soon. Until then, enjoy your clean bike lanes! #RVASweep16\u201d— Venture Richmond (@Venture Richmond) 1659711600
\u201cThe Grim Sweeper vs. MF BROOM\u201d— Venture Richmond (@Venture Richmond) 1659542942
The announcement comes one month after what would have been the rapper's 51st birthday, when fans and former collaborators flocked to social media to praise "Metal Face."
\u201cHappy Birthday #MFDOOM\u201d— SnowGoonS (@SnowGoonS) 1657723817
\u201cMF DOOM FOREVER\u201d— Andrew Barber (@Andrew Barber) 1657719228
\u201cMF DOOM, enjoy your 51st year of immortality. Happy birthday. On behalf of every artist doing things on their own terms, thank you a gazillion times over \ud83d\ude4f here\u2019s a behind the scenes look at Lamour Supreme\u2019s homage to Fantastic Four 82 (by Jack Kirby). RIP #MFDOOM\u201d— CZARFACE (@CZARFACE) 1657729676
The late rapper will have a posthumous appearance on Black Thought and Danger Mouse's collaborative album Cheat Codes which releases on August 12. DOOM's life and legacy will also be chronicled in the forthcoming Astra House biography, The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, by journalist and author S.H. Fernando Jr. According to the publishing house, the book is a “sweeping and definitive biography” that will “recount the rise, fall, redemption and untimely demise of one of Hip Hop’s most enigmatic and influential figures.”
\u201cIn THE CHRONICLES OF DOOM, @SkizFernando will recount the rise, fall, redemption, and untimely demise of Daniel Dumile AKA @MFDOOM, one of rap's most enigmatic and influential figures\u2014from KMD, to @adultswim, to escaping death in the public eye for months before it was announced.\u201d— Astra House (@Astra House) 1652813664
