Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes
There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.
 
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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.   
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	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.   
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	Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.   
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	Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.   
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	They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?   
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	I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.   
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	My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.   
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	Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.   
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	Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.   
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	Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.   
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	There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.   
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	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.   
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	I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.   
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	It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.   
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	I love BET and I love the fans.   
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	I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.   
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	I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.   
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	What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.   
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	Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.   
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	Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.   
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	I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.   
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	Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.   
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	When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.   
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	There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					