With wildfires continuing to wreak havoc on Southern California, Chuck D is denouncing a gross misinterpretation of his work.
Chuck D is dispelling assumptions about the 1990 "Fear of a Black Planet" single featuring Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane.
Tobak’s arrival in the States, of course, coincided with the rise of a nascent genre of music called hip-hop. By the mid-1980s, Public Enemy and EPMD were making names for themselves with songs ...
In response to a direct message on Twitter, Chuck D of the influential group Public Enemy shared the names of the Jews he believes have made the biggest impact in hip-hop, in addition to Rubin ...
Everything is different now, though. Racism, technology, hip hop, while none of these key tenets of Public Enemy's world have abated, they're not the same beasts the group rapped about in the 1980s.
Here are 10 hip-hop tracks that celebrate and reference the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Lyric: “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk/Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run.” ...
Detroit’s Eminem (Marshall Mathers) became a rap superstar in the 1990s and has been called the king of hip-hop for albums such as Slim Shady New York hip-hoppers Public Enemy, formed in 1986 ...
It has nothing to do with families losing everything they have in a natural disaster. Learn the history,” the hip-hop says of the politically charged track.