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
morning unity messages
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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Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
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These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.
cancer thinking government
I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.
technology trying
Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.
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The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
rap school hip-hop
Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
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We want to make sure the city is offering the services that our citizens need and desire.
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When you come up in the art world, whatever's in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.
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We won't have the big gate for conference games that we had with, say, a Penn Hills or a Woodland Hills. That is a big concern. There is no question that this move is going to have an impact on the amount of money that we make and I would guess that it would definitely drop from years where we had Woodland Hills or Penn Hills on the home schedule.
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We have no intention of returning to the Pepsi Center. And we've told the Pepsi Center people that.
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We have to guide growth into areas where we have planned infrastructure, or the individual developer has to kick in the cost to provide the infrastructure.
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The fact is this is an elite group of individuals. The fact is we want an elite group of individuals,