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
uplifting two government
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
real people television
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 same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.
water empty
If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.
crazy hands nuts
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.
reality hard-times people
Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.
kind nourishment
Music should be some kind of nourishment.
struggle moving breathing
Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.
records culture made
DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
rap hip-hop want
All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?
rap hip-hop posse
I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.
confused rap white
Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.
attention reason pay-attention
We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.
hero hip-hop black
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
thinking too-much lawyer
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.