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.
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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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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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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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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 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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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 spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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.
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I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun.
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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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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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