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 DOOMI 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 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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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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 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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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 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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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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