I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.
MF DOOMI 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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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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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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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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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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 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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