I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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 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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The ‘Doom’ thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out.
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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’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 think – a lot of times in hip-hop, especially – artists get kind of pigeonholed into being ‘the guy,’ and it’s kind of limiting in a way.
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I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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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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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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