When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
MF DOOMDoom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.
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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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 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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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