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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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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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 was a big fan of Ron Howard of course, so it was fantastic to meet him.
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People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.
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One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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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.
