I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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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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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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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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 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 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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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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