Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.
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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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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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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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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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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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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 back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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