I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.
MF DOOMBeing 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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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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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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I 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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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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 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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