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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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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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New York City
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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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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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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When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.
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I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.
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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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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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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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Truth is truth no matter what I think.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.
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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.
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Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
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Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
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When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that drives me is trying to make them understand that they have to share. So, my art reflects that the whole reason I do what I do reflects that.
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Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.
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People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
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Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.
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Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.
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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
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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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