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