Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.
MF DOOMI make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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 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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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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 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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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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