Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
MF DOOMI 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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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 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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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 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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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 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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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Prince Paul is another good friend; he’s like an older brother. He’ll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That’s what I like about Paul.
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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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