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
war men
Men have periods; they're called wars.
artist ignorant definitions
Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.
successful america black
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.
artist revenue grows
I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
thinking truth-is
Truth is truth no matter what I think.
song hate band
There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.
cutting past artist
In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.
hate people records
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.
song rap diversity
Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."
thinking grace enemy
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
thinking too-much lawyer
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
hate pages kashmir
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.
trying walking
The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
stuff term
I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.