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.
Earlier this week, Flav offered to create a bronze clock for gymnast Jordan Chiles who represented Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games The post Flavor Flav Creates Custom Clock Chain for Olympian Jordan Chiles appeared first on Hip-Hop Wired.
Legendary Hip-Hop group Public Enemy will take the stage along with Ghostface Killah as part of the lineup for DJ Cassidy's "Pass The Mic Live!" concert residency in Las Vegas this July.
The US women's water polo team couldn't have picked a better person than Flavor Flav to get the word and get people hyped for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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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...
This article originally appeared in the January 1988 issue of SPIN. Critics don’t like them. Black radio stations won’t play them. But in less than a year Public Enemy has managed to sell 275,000 copies of their debut LP, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, and has toured the U.S. and Europe with L.L. Cool J. They hit the stage like an alliance of shock troop and rap group. Behind them stand the S1Ws (which stands for Security of the First World), their gun-toting, Muslim backup crew (the guns are unloaded). The music is hard and the message is strong—maybe too strong for some. Chuck D is the meat of the message, and Flavor Flav is the spice—the younger sidekick who tempers the militance. “You wear a clock to know what time it is. And when you know what time it is, that means you are aware. And w...
In keeping with the dark lyrics of Public Enemy’s single “Grid,” the group dropped an appropriately apocalyptic video featuring pals Cypress Hill and George Clinton. The clip includes footage from PE’s performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Directed by David C. Snyder, the video for “GRID” is the latest from PE’s recent album, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? which saw the previously released “Public Enemy Number Won” video from the LP. The album marks the lineup’s return to Def Jam after a 20-year-hiatus. SPIN named Public Enemy its #9 artist of the last 35 years. Read the homage here. We also spoke with Chuck D about when the group dropped their surprise new single in June and recently about the new album. Check out the “Grid” clip below: [embe...
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #9. From Long Island, New York, here are Public Enemy. CREDIT: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Formed around the nucleus of rappers Chuck D and Flava Flav, production collective the Bomb Squad and others, Public Enemy was conceived as a rap army: militant Black musicians hell-bent on bringing the harsh realities of African-American strife to a mostly unaware audience. Their sample-based sound was as jarring and impactful as Chuck’s megaphone bark was authoritative and Flav’s cartoonish squeal was absurdist — and it strived for a confrontational brio informed by history. (Their contemporaries in N.W.A. approached these matters from slightly different, more misogynistic...
Public Enemy recently released their first album with Def Jam in a number of years with What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? They also recently teamed up with George Clinton and Cypress Hill to release the animated video for “Grid,” and now they’ve done the same thing for “Public Enemy Number Won.” Featuring the surviving members of both the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, the video features archival performance footage along with posters from those early days. “The song is an homage to ‘Public Enemy No. 1′ and that moment in time,” Chuck D said in a statement. “The Beastie Boys and Run-DMC were playing it all the time and Rick Rubin kept coming at us to sign with Def Jam. So it’s my way of bringing it all back together again.” We recently spoke with Chuck D as part of our SPIN 35 cel...