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.
MF DOOMI 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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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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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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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I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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