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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

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
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New York City
New York
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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Grows
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
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As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.
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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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Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.
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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 have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.
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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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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
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To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.
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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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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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