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
technology social-network look-up
Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.
thinking people fearless
I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.
believe
My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.
rap rap-music
Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.
believe writing artist
If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.
car sometimes pens
I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.
mean thinking hip-hop
I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
song driving
You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.
greed psychotic
You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it...
technology trying
Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.
water empty
If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.
mean policy borderline
I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.
fighting thinking people
Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.
people trying
Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.