I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
MF DOOMHmm, 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.
More MF DOOM Quotes
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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 ‘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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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