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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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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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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
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In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.
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I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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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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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.
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I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.
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If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
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Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.
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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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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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Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.
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I'm not a firm believer of mo' money mo' problems - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.
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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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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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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.
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