In 2004 Monsta Island Czars, and in particular MF Grimm felt severely affronted at the way MF DOOM ignored and even dissed them. There was a little beef over some money DOOM owed Grimm and DOOM not showing enough love for his one-time friends.

So Grimm came out with this vitriolic diss track that even makes people unrelated to the beef feel uncomfortable.

‘The Book of Daniel’ is part of the Hebrew bible, and DOOM’s real name is Daniel Dumile. So that’s where the name comes from.

DOOM and Grimm had been partners throughout the 90s. Grimm provided drug money to fund the Black Bastards album in 1993 when DOOM was still in KMD. He stood by DOOM when his brother died that same year and he left the game for five years. Grimm also helped on Operation: Doomsday and they did an EP together. Then Grimm got incarcerated and DOOM blew up. When Grimm got out in 2003, he expected some money from DOOM. They quarreled for a few years, and now the beef is over. Recently Grimm has been spending a lot of words explaining it’s all love and no hate.

Grimm is very talkative on this issue, and DOOM not at all, so it’s mostly a one-sided story. For some more information, check out:
http://pyramids2projects.blogspot.com/2006/11/village-voice-full-length.html
and
http://pyramids2projects.blogspot.com/2006/11/private-enemy-requiem-in-many.html