The Evolution From Zev Love X to MF DOOM

[00:04.94] Basically, it was a time between, I guess, like '94-'95
[00:08.26] And then we didn't hear from you 'til, again 'til '97
[00:11.61] When um, by-by then, you had become officially MF DOOM
[00:15.01] So, has anything in particular happened in that
[00:17.45] Two, two-and-a-half year period that was molding you into
[00:20.70] What we would hear, you know, when we first heard Deadbent?
[00:23.24] What was the process?
[00:25.33] Well Dan, here's what happened
[00:26.98] Studying hip-hop and studying flow a lot of cap is coming out
[00:28.81] A lot of soloists is coming out and getting money and blowing
[00:31.93] Now I was really rocking at the time
[00:34.13] Meth came out you know the Wu solos were kind of
[00:36.64] Like started budding out Biggie was out
[00:38.12] It was like a good time for the soloist, you know what I'm saying?
[00:41.85] Um, and, uh, you know, that's when I was, like
[00:44.69] Really trying to find a slot, or a good angle that I could come at
[00:49.11] That would be different from everybody's style, it somethin', somethin'
[00:52.49] That, you know, I could do without too much of a problem
[00:55.78] Like a technique that I could just easily master with one formula
[00:59.65] But still, it would be different than anybody else's shit, you know what I mean?
[01:03.54] So that's when I came with the DOOM shit, it was just like
[01:06.80] Really just simplicity at its finest, you know what I'm saying?
[01:10.65] Just strip everything down to just the raw essence of rhyming
[01:14.72] You know what I mean? Like, no ad-libs, like, aight, when you rhyming
[01:18.70] Usually when we be rhyming, it'd be like outside or at school
[01:22.06] And you're right there rhyming in a little circle or whatever
[01:24.83] You know what I'm saying? That's how it was when we first started
[01:27.23] And whatnot, and that's like, to me, the essence of it
[01:29.95] Or like even on stage, a microphone and or in a party
[01:33.58] Just you and the mic and the beat, you know what I mean?
[01:35.64] So it's really, I basically, doing the DOOM style on that
[01:40.48] It's just, um, you know no adlibs, no chorus, ill, ill verse, you know
[01:45.64] To where if you were standing right there, there was just four of us
[01:48.84] You would hear it the same as if you would hear it in a car
[01:51.69] Or if you heard it in a stadium or-or a club or whatever
[01:56.49] It's just that MC, that beat, and them lines, them punch lines
[02:00.15] And, you know, if-if it's two MCs battling in that-, in that kind of setting
[02:04.54] Where it's like a circle and it's just two muhfuckers goin' voice-for-voice
[02:09.41] And style-for-style, no, nothing fancy, you know?
[02:13.14] Two MCs tirin' out at those times, you know what I mean? (For sure)
[02:17.17] So that's where, you know
[02:19.05] There's no gimmicks, you know what I'm saying, involved
[02:21.76] I took that and said, all right, let me, let me use that as the basis
[02:25.21] A lot of captains, you know, oversaturated choice of choruses
[02:29.56] And, you know, like, cheesing the game up a little bit
[02:32.90] I think captains started getting lazy, you know what I mean?
[02:35.59] A lot of money came into the game
[02:37.07] So captains getting lazy, doing short verses
[02:39.18] You know, you know, kind of cheesy
[02:41.97] So I said, all right, I'm going to just burn it down, if you burned it down
[02:45.22] Back like how when we was burning it down when everything first started
[02:48.12] Where you could, you know, any corner in Queens
[02:51.37] Hear cats spitting and somebody would be real nasty, hittin' it
[02:54.16] "Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da," probably for 20 minutes straight
[02:57.24] With no nothin', no choruses over a beatbox, you know what I mean?
[03:01.76] I said, all right, if we could bring it to that level
[03:03.81] Then it, then it'd be, then that-that's different enough
[03:06.87] To where I think the character would stand out, you know what I mean?
[03:09.99] At the same time, bring the game back to is-, you know, how I remember it
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