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