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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
Composer
Journalist
Musician
Radio Personality
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Television Producer
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New York City
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this.
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Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.
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Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.
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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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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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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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Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
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Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.
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Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
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Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.
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Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.
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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
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Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.
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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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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
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