I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there’s multiple characters who carry the storyline.
MF DOOMEver since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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 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 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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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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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’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.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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 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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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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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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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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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