Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
MF DOOMI 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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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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 doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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 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 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 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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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 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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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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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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