The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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’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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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 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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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 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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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 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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