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
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We'll be performing songs I couldn't get out of town without playing, as well as stuff you've never heard before. It's music that will make people happy.
song driving
You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.
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.
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."
song philosophy writing
I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
song believe albums
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.
song heart artist
Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to who they want to talk to. But sometimes the heart and the head have to be able to talk and deal with a situation that's evident.
song kings teenage
McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.
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We were pretty much the best deal in town per square foot.
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When a hunter kills an elk, you need to start your stopwatch. The longer you wait, the more likely a bear will show up.
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We went from the worst feeling in the world to probably the most rewarding season I've ever been a part of.
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We are capable of winning any of the tournament games and the championship.
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We felt good about him being in there. He's in command. He's good on the sideline. We wanted to keep that rhythm going if we could.
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We are urging people to exhaust every avenue before bringing their pets here.