When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
MF DOOMWe all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
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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 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 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 doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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 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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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 ‘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 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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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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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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