- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Deeper Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have thought that part of being involved with life is the same thing as just wanting to kick it with your friends, and being involved with life on a deeper level is wanting to change the situation that you're in.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?
- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to be recognized for what you do, but that doesn't satisfy what I wanted out of this music, which is for people to hear it and get involved in movements and campaigns.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of cities passed ordinances that made it hard for black audiences to gather in large groups. Clubs are more open to hip-hop now 'cause it's the same crowd that goes to rock shows.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020