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Finding like‑minded friends helps us avoid feeling isolated and gives us a stronger voice. Chuck D points out that media often paints whole groups with the same brush, and that true artists need real connections, not just a sound file. He also says we can change the people around us when the environment feels stuck.

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People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

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I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they…

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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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I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.

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The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

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With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

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My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.

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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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Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is…

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Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their…

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You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always…

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It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining…

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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…

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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…

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As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media…

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Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or…

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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…

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When we worked on Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted album. Before we talked studios, beats, or lyrics, I said, "Two rules: Only…

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I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth…

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When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the…

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For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of…

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Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap.…

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I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for galvanizing artists…

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In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as…

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Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

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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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I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal…

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Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you…

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Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind."…

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I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come…

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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach…

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You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear…

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Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and…

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We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere…

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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want…

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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…

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with…

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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,…

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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups…

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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…

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,…

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military.…

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and…

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

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…

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In…

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…

Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody…

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

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