Quotes by Rap Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Chuck D rap hip-hop school All I want is peace and love on this planet. Chuck D rap hip-hop peace If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey to Australia, now has tons of hip-hop artists. The music and artistry have moved way faster than the corporatization of the music. You do need organization and opportunity for these artists to express themselves, and I don't think it has to come from a corporate co-signing. Chuck D rap opportunity country Many have forgotten what we came here for, Chuck D rap stupid past And when I say it, they get alarmed... Chuck D bombs rap hip-hop 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. Chuck D confused rap boys Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time. Chuck D rap voice world Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, Chuck D smell rap hip-hop 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." Chuck D rap song two For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap. Chuck D rap stupid thinking Nothing has more words and performance than rap music. Chuck D rap-music rap performances 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. Chuck D rap real roots Excuse us for the news, Chuck D confused rap white Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group. Chuck D rap artist enemy We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage. Chuck D yelling rap men As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse. Chuck D teenager rap cutting I never live alone, Chuck D posse rap hip-hop Bass! How low can you go? Chuck D rap brother animal Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement. Chuck D rap artist kids By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music. Chuck Eddy late rap giving-up «1011121314151617181920»
