The Evolution From Zev Love X to MF DOOM

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Basically, it was a time between, I guess, like '94-'95 And then we didn't hear from you 'til, again 'til '97 When um, by-by then, you had become officially MF DOOM So, has anything in particular happened in that Two, two-and-a-half year period that was molding you into What we would hear, you know, when we first heard Deadbent? What was the process? Well Dan, here's what happened 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 solos were kind of Like started budding out Biggie was out 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, or a good angle that I could come at That would be different from everybody's style, it somethin', somethin' 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 Just 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 adlibs, no chorus, ill, 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-or a club or whatever It's just that MC, that beat, and them lines, them punch lines And, you know, if-if it's two MCs battling in that-, in that kind of setting Where it's like a circle and it's just two muhfuckers goin' voice-for-voice And style-for-style, no, nothing fancy, you know? Two MCs tirin' out at those times, you know what I mean? (For sure) So that's where, you know There's no gimmicks, you know what I'm saying, involved I took that and said, all right, let me, let me use that as the basis A lot of captains, you know, oversaturated 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 So captains getting lazy, doing short verses You know, you know, kind of cheesy So I said, all right, I'm going to just burn it down, if you burned it down Back like how when we was burning it down when everything first started Where you could, you know, any corner in Queens Hear cats spitting and somebody would be real nasty, hittin' it "Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, "probably for 20 minutes straight With no nothin', no choruses over a beatbox, you know what I mean? I said, all right, if we could bring it to that level Then it, then it'd be, then that-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 is-, you know, how I remember it