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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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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 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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You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.
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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for 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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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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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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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 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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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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