[Spoken Word: MF DOOM & Interviewer]
Basically, it was a time between I guess, like, '94, ’95
And then we didn't hear from you 'til, again, ’til '97
When by then you would become officially MF DOOM
So was there anything particular happening in that, in that
Like, two, two-and-a-half-year period
That was molding you into what we were hearing, you know, when we first heard Deadbent?
What was the process?
Studying hip-hop and studying flow a lot of cap is coming out
A lot of soloists is coming out and getting money and blowing
Now I was really rocking at the time
Meth came out, you know the Wu soloists kind of like started budding out, Biggie was out
So it was like a good time for the soloist, you know what I'm saying? Um
And uh, you know that's when I was, like, really trying to find a slot, a good angle that I could come at
That'd be different from everybody's style, it's something that, you know, I could do without too much of a problem
Like a technique that I could just easily master with one formula
But still, it would be different than anybody else's shit
You know what I mean? So that’s when I came with the DOOM shit, it was just like
Really just simplicity at its finest, you know what I’m saying?
Just strip everything down to just the raw essence of rhyming
You know what I mean? Like, no ad-libs
Like, aight, when you rhyming, usually when we be rhyming
It'd be like outside or at school and you’re right there rhyming in a little circle or whatever
You know what I'm saying?
That's how it was when we first started and whatnot
And that's like, to me, the essence of it
Or like even on stage a microphone and or in a party there’s you and the mic and the beat, you know what I mean?
So it's really, I basically, doing the DOOM style on that, it's just um
You know, no ad-libs, no chorus, ill verse
You know, to where if you were standing right there, there was just four of us
You would hear it the same as if you would hear it in a car or if you heard it in a stadium or a club or whatever
It's just that MC, that beat, and them lines, them punch lines
And, you know, if it's two MCs battling in that, in that kind of setting
Where it's like a circle and it's just two motherfuckers going voice for voice and style for style
No nothing fancy, you know
Two MCs trying out at those times, you know what I mean?
For sure
So that's where, you know, it's no gimmicks, you know what I'm saying, involved
I took that and said, all right, let me use that as the basis
A lot of captains you know, oversaturated with choice of choruses and
You know, like, cheesing the game up a little bit, I think captains started getting lazy
You know what I mean? A lot of money came into the game for captains getting lazy doing short verses, you know
You know, kind of cheesy, so I said, alright, I'm going to just burn it down
If you burn it down back like how we was burning it down when everything first started
Where you could, you know, any corner in Queens, you can't catch spitting and somebody would be real nasty hitting it
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Probably for twenty minutes straight with no, nothing, no choruses over a beatbox, you know what I mean?
I said, all right, if we can bring it to that level, then that's different enough
To where I think the character would stand out, you know what I mean?
At the same time bring the game back to what is you know how I remember it
