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 DOOMI 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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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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
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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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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 song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
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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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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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I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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 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 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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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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