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Flavor Flav Slams ‘Daily Mail’ Over “Disrespect” Of Public Enemy
Flavor Flav called out the 'Daily Mail' for publishing a picture of him and Taylor Swift with a headline about Public Enemy's canceling their Australia tour dates. The group was set to perform in the country for two weeks. The post Flavor Flav Slams ‘Daily Mail’ Over “Disrespect” Of Public Enemy appeared first on Hip-Hop Wired.
Chuck D, Daddy-O Team Up For “Stop Self Destruction” Project
Rap legends Chuck D and Daddy-O have united to drop a new project called "Stop Self Destruction," over 30 years after the first "Self Destruction" song was released. The artists have partnered with the music label Opposition to bring forth the initiative. The post Chuck D, Daddy-O Team Up For “Stop Self Destruction” Project appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
106 Musicians Predict the 2022 Baseball Season
The powers-that-be did their best to prevent this year’s Major League Baseball season from happening, but, alas, we’re back. By we, I mean the annual SPIN baseball preview. As usual, everyone (or almost everyone) is optimistic about their team’s chances in 2022. In 2021, a good chunk of the season was played with minimal fans in attendance, but things should be mostly back to normal this year. As I said last year about the season: Will it be weird? Probably. But aren’t they all? If it wasn’t a weird season with bizarre injuries, what kind of season would it be? Not baseball, Suzyn. Somehow, we almost doubled the number of participants from 62 to 105. Maybe we go for a cool 162 next year? If nothing else, we know that musicians love America’s Pastime (even if many feel that it doesn’t love ...
Chuck D To Host New ‘Songs That Shook the Planet’ Series For Audible
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Audible Originals / Audible As the frontman and cofounder of legendary Hip-Hop group Public Enemy, Chuck D has made music that changed the culture of the globe. And now, he’ll guide listeners as host of a new audiobook series chronicling music that has had the same impact. Audible, the Amazon platform dedicated to audiobooks, has announced that they are producing a new series under their Words + Music format entitled Songs That Shook the Planet. The series, which is crafted to showcase songs that have had significant influence politically and socially, will have Chuck D as the host. Songs That Shook the Planet will feature tunes from a variety of notable artists including Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, and Stevie Wonder, among others. Remaining true to the ...
Chuck D Calls Out Live Nation For ‘Cashing In On Black Pain, Trauma, And Death’
Chuck D just issued an open letter calling on the entire Live Nation team “To step up and step out of the shadows to fix these situations and save lives,” following the tragedy that took place at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival over the first weekend of November. Chuck D The Public Enemy rapper writes that Travis Scott is not to blame for the ten concertgoers that died as a result of injuries from the festival. Writing that Scott had nothing to do with the physical set-up of the festival and logistics, he “trust Live Nation and all the other concert promoters who are supposed to do all of this.” Chuck D explains he is tired of the concert corporation’s negligence of the Astroworld tragedy, and that people want answers about what went wrong at Astroworld. “I’m not buying the Young B...
Chuck D Clarifies He Wasn’t Defending R. Kelly After Twitter Backlash
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Roberto Ricciuti / Getty In the wake of R. Kelly being found guilty on charges of sex trafficking in Brooklyn on Tuesday (September 28th), many took to social media to express their opinions about the verdict & support the victims. For Chuck D, his social media posting sparked a tremendous backlash causing him to issue a clarification hours later. The frontman of the iconic group Public Enemy went on Twitter after the disgraced singer’s conviction for nine charges after a six-week trial that recounted many of his putrid crimes against young Black girls and boys including the late singer Aaliyah. In his initial post, Chuck D mused about Kelly citing how he was “abused in his youth” and “an addict as a adult”. He went on to bring up two infamous example...
Public Enemy’s Chuck D Teams With Public Health Organizations To Raise Colorectal Cancer Awareness
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stand Up To Cancer / Stand Up To Cancer Hip-Hop icon Chuck D is letting it be known that injustice, oppression and the establishment are not the only things he’s a Public Enemy to—he’s also a soldier in the fight against colorectal cancer. Serving as an advisory board member of Hip Hop Public Health—”an organization dedicated to building health equity through the transformative power of music, art and science,” according to a press statement—Chuck D has joined forces with Stand Up To Cancer® to create a “health literacy initiative” by releasing a new song and animated video about the importance of colorectal cancer screening featuring and produced by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and PE frontman himself. [embedded content] “There’s been an alarmin...
The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one either. Because that isn’t possible — actually, it is, if you wanted some compilation of who sold the most records/concert tickets/has the most fans/got the most death threats, etc., and someone could come up with a bunch of very empirical metrics and create a “heat index” or something, and could deliver an actual scientific ranking! But we, um, didn’t do that. In fact we didn’t even, technically, do the “we...
Q-Tip, Questlove, Ice Cube, Chuck D and More React to Whodini’s John ‘Ecstasy’ Fletcher’s Death: ‘A Tremendous Loss of Our Heroes’
John “Ecstasy” Fletcher of the ’80s group Whodini reportedly passed away on Wednesday, but if the reactions to his death are any indication, the early rapper’s legacy will still be felt for decades to come. A who’s who of hip hop history shared their condolences and stories of how Fletcher had influenced them, with social media eulogies coming in from Ice Cube, Chuck D, Q-Tip, Questlove (who was the first person to report of the death), DJ Premier, and more. Thank you Ecstasy for showing us how to do it. RIP pic.twitter.com/ppfUZeZesp — Ice Cube (@icecube) December 23, 2020 Fletcher, Jalil Hutchins and J Grandmaster Dee released six albums throughout the ’80s as Whodini (who are now considered hip hop legends of the era, second only to Run-DMC). The trio helped lay the groundwork to t...
Chuck D Shows Us How to Rage With Age
There was a time when being Public Enemy #1 was the biggest part of Chuck D’s identity. In 1985, the frustrated college student turned rapper emerged from a hotbed of racial tension in Long Island to kick open doors for a burgeoning street culture that did not yet know its own power. Being young, gifted and Black put a torch in Chuck’s hand and a target on his back. Together with his cartoonish hype man Flavor Flav, he started a group that detonated a bomb of black nationalism into the heart of hip-hop culture at the ripe old age of 25. After nearly four decades and 15 albums later, the passion of that young, fire-breathing wordsmith still dwells inside the Golden Era emcee even at age 60 — albeit older, wiser and more subdued. Sitting in front of a computer screen flanked by a wall ...
De La Soul Team With Chuck D, Styles P, Talib Kweli for Voting Anthem ‘Remove 45′
De La Soul are back and have enlisted an all-star group of musicians, including Styles P, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Mysonne, and Chuck D for a new song “Remove 45.” The song is their way of encouraging fans to vote out President Donald Trump. The song splices in Trump’s speeches to show why listeners should vote him out. “When it comes to this president and his administration we need to exercise our right to vote and REMOVE him from office,” Pos from De La Soul said in a statement. Listen to the song below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing...
Public Enemy Return to Def Jam With What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down
A few months after surprise releasing their “State of the Union (STFU)” single that was produced by DJ Premier, Public Enemy has finally announced their new album, What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down, their first album for Def Jam in more than 20 years. “Cultural Institutions are important. Being an integral part of one is an honor bestowed and to uphold,” Chuck D said in a statement. “Public Enemy songs are forever sonic prints in the sands of time. And it’s time – it’s necessary – to bring the noise again from a place called home. Def Jam. Fight The Power 2020.” Flavor Flav added, “Def Jam is like the house we grew up in. It’s cool to be home.” Sharing the album art on Twitter, Chuck D also said, “Time is intensifying and folks are Tight. In this moment a Album ...
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