Quotes by Mf Doom - Page 1

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.
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Growing Up
Downs
Spent
Ups
Ups And Downs
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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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Canvas
Eye
Shows
Stage
Visible
Doing
Whatever
Put
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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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Mask
Persona
Stage
Whole
Seen
Perform
Distract
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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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Predict
Liked
Forth
Throw
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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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Artists
Limiting
Pigeonholed
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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.
Mf Doom /
Brother
Criticise
Good Friend
Honest
Older Brother
Brutally
Paul
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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. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun.
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Friends
Fun
No Friends
School
Apart
Me Fun New
Dudes
Incognito
Record
Label
Record Label
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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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Chewing
Chewing Gum
Fire
Gum
Juggling
Rhyming
Trying
Versatility
Show
Same
Drums
Playing
Same Time
While
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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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Saturated
Streets
Always People Real
Be Real
Expect
People Real Always
Straight
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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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First Impression
Impression
Mask
Might
Use
Why Not
Control
Like
Visual
Going
Always
Why
Brings
First
Well
Something
Story
Throw
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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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Corny
Fun
Pay
Rhyme
Today
Now
Me Fun See
Today Me See
Could
Gotta
Older
Grown
Rent
Um
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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.
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Character
Doom
Mean
Normal
Stories
Writer
Convey
Dude
Himself
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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
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Notebook
Eras
Slang
Languages
Liked
Dialects
Grade
Putting
Third
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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. 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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Circles
Roots
Artists
Community People Black
Brothers
Community Black People
Nowadays
Rhymes
Tend
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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, '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.
Mf Doom /
Music
Classic
Doom
Enjoy
Mask
Mystery
Opera
Revenge
Theme
Now
Adds
Back
Boils
Down
Watch
Phantom
Slight
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When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs. I grew up in that age, and it was memorable. But I'm down with all of it. Chuck D or Danny Brown? I feel comfortable with all of them. Word up, kid! Word up, man!
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Boogie
Chuck
Comfortable
Ice
Memorable
Productions
Danny
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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. 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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Boring
Different Characters
Multiple
Particular
Storyline
Across
Carry
Characters
Mainly
Novels
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The song 'Bite the Thong' in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, '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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Clothes
Dilemma
Hmm
Just Do It
Particular
Selling
Song
Considered
Bite
Stay
Everybody Else
Rock
Nowadays
Thong
Underground
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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. 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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Add
Decided
Differentiate
Doom
Easy Way
Gains
Mask
Mystique
Point Of View
Weight
Stand
Characters
Role
View
Though
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