I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
MF DOOMI 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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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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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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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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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 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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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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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 ‘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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I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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