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.
MF DOOMYou have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
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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 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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I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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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 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’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 make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
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Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
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Prince Paul is another good friend; he’s like an older brother. He’ll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That’s what I like about Paul.
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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’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
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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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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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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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