Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
MF DOOMEverybody 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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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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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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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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I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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 have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.
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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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