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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More MF DOOM Quotes
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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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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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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