the dope report

Independent underground rap superstar Doom, formerly MF Doom, is the number five selling indie artist [ReutersUK] in the UK this week with his dope new album Born Like This. In my interview last week with America’s most blunted supervillain for Rolling Stone.com, I teased that Doom voted McCain. Comment ensued. Here’s a never-before-seen segment from the full Doom transcript:

Were you surprised Obama got elected? Down to the end I’d say I was surprised. Me myself, I’m a McCain supporter so they kind of like threw me for a loop. I thought they were gonna seize it again, but I guess if it’s a time to change it’s a time to change. But at least it showed that people are thinking in a different way. I’m with him though – he got elected, so I’ll see what he do.

Well, supervillains have to vote republican, right?

The villain-good guy thing is kinda played. The villain is the good guy, he’s just a villain to the other team. So: everybody has their own vision of the future – ‘Id figure, ‘All right ‘what is your vision of the future and do I agree with you, or not?’ I believe all of us have a vision for our children to grow up in a better place it just depends on what your mode of thinking is so you know – there’s things that Obama talk about that I might not agree with, there’s things he does say though that I think is good planning – and we’ll see as time passes.

If it was McCain, I would be like, “Yo, word, McCain—Bet.” At least I know I’ll be getting the same four years, I could still get money. If you were above a certain pay scale it was good that those guys were in office. But at the same time we got to think about our fellow man. We can’t be just having everybody fucked up and you know America’s got a capitalist motto that gets you riled up like, ‘Alright, I work for mine. Why do I have to share with this other guy?’ kinda attitude about America, but I think that time is over now. It’s starting to get a little crazy with Bernie Madoff and all this stuff. It starts getting too greed oriented.

KMD was notoriously political, Has race relations changed because of Obama?

I think race relations change automatically since there’s always new children being born. As long as children can grow up without a separate way of thinking and we teach the children the similarities between each other as opposed to teaching them the separate ways of thinking that we’re all different – and emphasizing those differences – I think automatically they’re gonna make it to where our lives is going to be an old style of thinking, kind of the ‘the world is flat’ kind of thing.

There’s no particular event triggering it. I think the events that happen is a result of this new thinking, like the young generation of college kids that were little kids when I was growing up I’m like 10 or 15 years past them some of them – now they are the ones that are voting and got their voices and they made it happen. So you can’t ever underestimate the power of youth.

Time seems to be on our side.

The people in positions of power have to pass it on to somebody. Music is a good way to bridge people together. The internet is another thing that lets everybody have a chance to see the other guy’s point of view, kind of relate to everybody. The fact that we’re all different is a good thing.

So that’s that. Talk amongst yo selves.