When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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