Chuck D Quotes About Rap Music

Quotes about: Rap Music

• 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

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

• 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

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Rap Music, Performances

• 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

  Song, Rap, Two

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

• 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

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

• 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.

• 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

  Rap, Men, Yelling

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

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