Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
When music turned into being like candy - what people don't realize is, yes it's candy, but candy has long-term effects if… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind."… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military.… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be! — Chuck D Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
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