I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
MF DOOMI’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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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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 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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I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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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I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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