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!
MF DOOMI spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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 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 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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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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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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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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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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