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

• You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

  

  Anthony Michael Hall
  • Rap

• Why do you like to cuss? Everybody likes to cuss. I don’t. They don’t call you Mr. Excitement for nothing.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Excitement
  • Cuss

• Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Audience
  • Entertainment

• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Why
  • Picture

• I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Soul
  • Loved
  • Blues

• 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