I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
MF DOOMI make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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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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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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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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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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 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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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