I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
MF DOOMI’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
More MF DOOM Quotes
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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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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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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