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 DMy mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Chuck DI became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.
Chuck DIf you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.
Chuck DAs 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.
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