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.
MF DOOMNobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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 liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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I though it’d be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.
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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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