Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes

I go out in the streets, and I go to shows, and I see my fans turn from "I like your last rap" to "I feel your movement; you're keeping it all the way real." One thing I've always said is that's never been my story, and I'm not going to go back on my word.

Hakeem Seriki

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Kids
  • More
  • Word

• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick
  • Word
  • Last
  • Sarcasm

• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Live
  • Kids

• Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Shows
  • Started
  • Modeling

• I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Rap
  • Repetition

• We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Bad
  • Challenge

• The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Popular
  • Rap

• For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.

  

  Ciara
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Energy

• Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I'm not a normal female rapper - it's not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That's just not me.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Game
  • Sex
  • Rap

• I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Song
  • Rap

• I feel like I've started to create my own culture of being a voice for something, and that's what people want to know about. I love that because I am a woman and because I a rap, and I look the way I look, I can connect with the demographic of people who feel like they have a voice in me.

  

  Lizzo
  • People
  • Culture
  • Rap

• The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

  

  Aceyalone
  • People
  • Born
  • Dies

• A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

  

  E. B. White
  • Country
  • Man
  • Way

• They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Poets
  • Fathers

• Let's give discredit where discredit is due.

  

  Karl Lehenbauer
  • Giving
  • Dues
  • Discredit

• I go out in the streets, and I go to shows, and I see my fans turn from "I like your last rap" to "I feel your movement; you're keeping it all the way real." One thing I've always said is that's never been my story, and I'm not going to go back on my word.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Rap
  • Shows
  • Word