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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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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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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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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 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 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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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 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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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I grew up in that age, and it was memorable. But I’m down with all of it. Chuck D or Danny Brown? I feel comfortable with all of them. Word up, kid! Word up, man!
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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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