![We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-come-from-the-days-when-rap-used-to-agitate-the-mainstream-now-its-more-budd.jpg)
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rap dark thinking
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rap party school
America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown. Bernie Mac
rap not-good-enough trying
I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know. Dee Dee Ramone
rap trying throat
I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
rap done wells
I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
rap party boys
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rap tired rocks
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
rap thinking ideas
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issues may stones
And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults. Charles Dickens
issues novel concern
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Alan Paton
issues interesting psychology
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issues gold persuasion
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
issues patterns calling
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
issues problem sensitive
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me. Al Pacino
issues america knows
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issues focus management
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issues care i-care
I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue. Dave Chappelle
needs normal spirit
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needs speak ashamed
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself. Charles Spurgeon
needs lord rejoice
When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
needs inbreds values
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
needs wealth rich
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needs enough boycott
When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective. Al Sharpton
needs bronx bodyguard
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
needs logic found
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
needs way sticks
The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.