Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.
MF DOOMI’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
More MF DOOM Quotes
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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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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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 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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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