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To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
Journalist
Musician
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Television Producer
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New York City
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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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 totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.
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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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If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
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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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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.
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Truth is truth no matter what I think.
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Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.
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Bass! How low can you go? Death row...what a brother know. Once again, back is the incredible, The rhyme animal, the uncannable D! Public Enemy Number One. Five-O said, Freeze! and I got numb. Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun? But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.
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Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.
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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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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?
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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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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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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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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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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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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
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