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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 of all time because they were white. "
Chuck D
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People
Race
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" 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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" 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 traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States. "
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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 own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. "
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" I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. "
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" I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. "
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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. "
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" You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock. "
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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, so he's worldly. "
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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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" 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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" 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 before for popularity's sake. "
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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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" 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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" I think governments are the cancer of civilization. "
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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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" 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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" You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. "
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" 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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" Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them. "
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" 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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" 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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