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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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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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The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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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’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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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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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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