Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore. — 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… — 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… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
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
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres… — 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
It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. — 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'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — 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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