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Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

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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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Stereotype

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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
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We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.
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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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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
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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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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.
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Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.
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Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.
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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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I always remain optimistic.
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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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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 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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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
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Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past... Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.
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Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.
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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
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