I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can’t predict what you’re going to say next.
MF DOOMWe all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.
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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
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Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?’ Nowadays, you can just do it – have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n’ rollers – and it’s not considered selling out.
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I grew up in that age, and it was memorable. But I’m down with all of it. Chuck D or Danny Brown? I feel comfortable with all of them. Word up, kid! Word up, man!
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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.
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I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there’s multiple characters who carry the storyline.
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I though it’d be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.
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The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring.
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I’m always trying to show versatility. I’m juggling, and I’m flipping fire, and I’m chewing gum and rhyming at the same time… on a unicycle, while playing the drums.
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I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.
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