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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

Chuck D

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
Journalist
Musician
Radio Personality
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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Perform
Create
Able
Love
Like
People
Rappers
Satisfy

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You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
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