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Pharoahe Monch Quotes:

Pharoahe Monch quotes

Ocupation: Rapper

Life: b. October 31, 1972

Birthday: October 31

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Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror, Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer. The truth is that you ugly... Not on the outside, but in the inside; On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.

source: - Song: The Truth

Topics: Rap, Mirrors, Light, Frontin

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

source: - Song: Simon Says, Album: Internal Affairs

Topics: Wall, Missing

Squeeze 7cc's so I could see the seven seas, And CC all my friends so they could see what I was seeing... But what they saw was a despicable human being; So, I guess they just wasn't seeing what I was seeing.

Topics: Rap, Sea, Hip Hop

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

Topics: Hate, Rap, Black And White, Love And Hate, Vanishing Point

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

source: - Song: Simon Says, Album: Internal Affairs

Topics: Witty, New York, Rap

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

Topics: Rap, Skills, Boxing

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Topics: Beach, Rap, Writing, Tahiti

Cloned chickens walking around without heads, The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it. Population control, make the babies sick, All these RFID chips, RU-486... This is a war against consciousness, Controlling your soul, sort of a psychological dictatorship. And we are on the front lines, Guilty as charged if intellect is a crime.

Topics: Baby, War, Rap, Population Control

The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

Topics: Rap, Hip Hop, Lasts, Fastballs

Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the music and the people out to admire the love, The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club. And like ***** shotguns, let's blow this joint, It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

Topics: Block, Rap, Blow, Shotguns

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Topics: Dream, Rap, Government

It's like I'm married to the silencer, Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers. Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries, Put your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries.

Topics: Art, Rap, Divorce

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

source: - Song: Rapid Eye Movement, 2014

Topics: Rap, Eye, Hip Hop

My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum; I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'

Topics: Rap, Men, Giving

Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

Topics: Men, Artist, Hip Hop, Listening Ear

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

source: - Song: Queens, Album: Internal Affairs

Topics: Rap, Guy, Said, Momma, Brewers

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Heart, My Heart

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Careers, Sound, Radio

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Needs, Right Direction

You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Form, Vehicle

Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 1, 2011.

Topics: Kids, Realizing

It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Forums

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Want, Radio

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Careers, Want, Savvy, Time Spent, Music Career

There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Artist, Circles, Ties, Hip Hop Artist

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Projects, Eleven, Pops, Platinum

You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

source: - Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

Topics: Artist, Names, Ass

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