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
way boycott best-way
The best way to boycott is to build your own
rap hip-hop blame
It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.
believe kind protect
I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.
rap kkk hip-hop
These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.
rap games chess-game
No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
grateful each-day be-grateful
Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.
Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.
rap government hip-hop
I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.
earth
The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth...
people being-positive mountain
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
trying
Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
people cant-change ifs
If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.
differences culture similarity
Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.
people different culture
When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.