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Chuck D Quotes

American - Musician | August 1, 1960 -

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

Down Stuff Before Invented Term

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

Culture Government Two Forces Blinds

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.

Community Roots Speak Hood Need Rap

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

Love People Create Just Able Like

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.

Hate People Person West Like Record

I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.

Support Free Believe You Play Radio

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.

Time People Confused White Hip-Hop

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Security Party Enemy Hip-Hop Public

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Music Grace World Internet Creating

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.

Time Song Believe More Release Make

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.

Time Rock Classic Radio Bigger Than

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Grace World Think Internet Enemy

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