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.
MF DOOMI 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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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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 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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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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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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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