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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

Chuck D

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
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New York City
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.
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Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.
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I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
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If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.
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Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
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Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.
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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
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Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.
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The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
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Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
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A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.
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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?
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Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!
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What made me want to become a recording artist I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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