Chuck D.
Chuck D.
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, better known by his stage name Chuck D, is an American emcee, author, and producer. As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, he helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s . About.com ranked him at No. 9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him at No. 12 on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Lyricists of All Time...
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth1 August 1960
CityQueens, NY
song believe albums
I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
past voice leader
There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
song philosophy writing
I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
order gears life-is
My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.
rap smell hip-hop
Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!
interesting church sides
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.
consciousness
Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
rocks hip-hop culture
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.
musical music-is music-industry
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
rap games chess-game
No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
guy world constitution
Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.
might world passports
If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
thinking issues together
Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.
revolution
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.