I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
MF DOOMI spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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.
MF DOOMEverybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.
MF DOOMI have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.
MF DOOMYou have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
MF DOOMBeing 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.
MF DOOMI can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.
MF DOOMI might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
MF DOOMI’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
MF DOOMWe all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
MF DOOMI get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there’s multiple characters who carry the storyline.
MF DOOMThe 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 DOOMHip-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.
MF DOOMDoom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.
MF DOOMThe ‘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.
MF DOOMI’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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