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" I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. "
Chuck D
Mother
Always
Father
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" 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 music, if you actually pay attention to it. "
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" 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 to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. "
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" 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 there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. "
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" 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 hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy. "
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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 easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives. "
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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 record for. "
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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 I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day. "
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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 when they stay there. "
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Music
Reality
Culture
" My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. "
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People
Educated
Father
" 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 United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box. "
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World
You
" My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being. "
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Her
Daughter
" 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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Did
Like
Somebody
" 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. That label was Def Jam Records. "
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Want
Artist
Become
" I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy. "
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Enemy
World
Think
" Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people. "
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Confused
Down
Need
" 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 of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. "
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Accomplishment
Sports
Best
" 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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Grace
Creating
Internet
" 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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People
Artist
Connection
" 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 that there's a history that's very sensitive. "
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History
Travel
Understanding
" The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. "
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Technology
Process
Fish
" 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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World
Alive
Enemy
" I think governments are the cancer of civilization. "
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Cancer
Think
Civilization
" 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 sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. "
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People
Own
Things
" 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 because they were white. "
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Time
People
Race
" I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. "
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Labels
Over
Money
" 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 can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope. "
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You
Morning
Me
" Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party. "
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Security
Public
" 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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Slow
Come
Music
" Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. "
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Glow
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Voting
" I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. "
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Think
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