I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
MF DOOMI spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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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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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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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 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 song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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 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 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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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