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.

  

  Flavor Flav
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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.

  

  Ice T
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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.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
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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?

  

  Kanye West
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• My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Me
  • Support
  • Always

• Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Fans
  • Everybody
  • Were

• Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Stop
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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.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Music
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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.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
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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.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• 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.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
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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.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• Fans are awesome.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Fans
  • Awesome

• I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • Moments
  • Win
  • Rap

• I love my fans, and I try to keep in touch with them as much as I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Fans
  • Try

• I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Night

• We weren't really making a lot of shots. They weren't really making a lot of shots. I can imagine how it was for the fans, but for us to be the team that was on top, it was a great night for us.

  

  Eddy Curry
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  • Imagine
  • Fans

• The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.

  

  Charlie Brotman
  • Personality
  • Speak
  • Difficult

• We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Read
  • Meaning
  • Creatures

• Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Trust
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Fans
  • Rap