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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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 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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