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.
MF DOOMI can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.
More MF DOOM Quotes
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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 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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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 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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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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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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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