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.
MF DOOMEver since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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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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 ‘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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