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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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 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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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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Fans are awesome.
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I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
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I love my fans, and I try to keep in touch with them as much as I can.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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I love feeding off the audience, and to me, what's the point if you're not going to think of the fans. Anyone can play music in their house, but you put it out because you want interact with your fans. And, as an artist, you get so much from your fans.
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Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.
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The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
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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.
