Chuck D Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

  Chuck D

  Queens, Rap, Humble

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

• I got a letter from the government the other day
  I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Government, Hip Hop

  Song: Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos

• Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
  We got to fight the powers that be!

  Chuck D

  Rap, Fighting, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Games, Chess Game

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
  I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
  Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

  Chuck D

  Hero, Hip Hop, Black

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Majority

• It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
  ...When you destroy yourself.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Hip Hop, Blame

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• And when I say it, they get alarmed...
  'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Hip Hop, Bombs

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• These days you can't see who's in cahoots,
  Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Kkk, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture

• 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

• Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
  Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox.
  Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
  The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

  Chuck D

  Rap, School, Hip Hop

• Excuse us for the news,
  You might not be amused;
  But did you know White comes from Black?
  No need to be confused.

  Chuck D

  Confused, Rap, White

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• All I want is peace and love on this planet.
  Ain't that how God planned it?

  Chuck D

  Peace, Rap, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• Many have forgotten what we came here for,
  Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
  Just growin' not known' about your past...
  Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Rap, Past

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• I never live alone,
  I never walk alone.
  My posse's always ready
  And they're waitin' in my zone.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Hip Hop, Posse

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

• Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on,
  First they're guilty, now they're gone!

  Chuck D

  Rap, Smell, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

• 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.

  Chuck D

  Song, Kings, Teenage

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

• One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

  Chuck D

  Years, Hip Hop, Lazy

• 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

  Country, Rap, Opportunity

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

• They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.

  Chuck D

  Military, Army, Giving

  Source: www.progressive.org

• 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.

  Chuck D

  Mean, Thinking, Hip Hop

• It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

  Chuck D

  People, Hip Hop, Hustle

• 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

  Stupid, Rap, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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