We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
MF DOOMI can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.
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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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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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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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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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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 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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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.
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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.
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