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’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.
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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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I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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 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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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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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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I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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 liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can’t predict what you’re going to say next.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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