Chuck D Quotes

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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 to take the…
• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded…
• I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best…
• I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but…
• 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…
• One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip…
• People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time…
• Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims…
• Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods -…
• 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…
• What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them.…
• When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding…
• You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the…
• You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did…
• A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and…

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