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.
MF DOOMDoom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.
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Prince Paul is another good friend; he’s like an older brother. He’ll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That’s what I like about Paul.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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