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.
MF DOOMHip-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 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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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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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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