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.
MF DOOMHmm, 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.
More MF DOOM Quotes
-
-
The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
MF DOOM -
I’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.
MF DOOM -
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 DOOM -
I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there’s multiple characters who carry the storyline.
MF DOOM -
I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
MF DOOM -
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.
MF DOOM -
I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
MF DOOM -
I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
MF DOOM -
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.
MF DOOM -
Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.
MF DOOM -
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.
MF DOOM -
I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
MF DOOM -
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.
MF DOOM -
We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
MF DOOM -
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.
MF DOOM