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 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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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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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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 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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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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