- published: 20 Jun 2012
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24:05
Public Enemy Griff and Chuck D on Tavis
Public Enemy's Chuck D and Professor Griff discuss the group's 20 years in the music busin...
published: 20 Jun 2012
Public Enemy Griff and Chuck D on Tavis
Public Enemy's Chuck D and Professor Griff discuss the group's 20 years in the music business, the power of their music over the long haul and their new CD. Griff speaks on activist film "Turn Off Channel Zero"
- published: 20 Jun 2012
- views: 30666
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Public Enemy - Fight The Power
From 1990 Album: "Fear Of A Black Planet". Song first appeared on the 1989 Soundtrack: "Do...
published: 12 Jul 2009
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
From 1990 Album: "Fear Of A Black Planet". Song first appeared on the 1989 Soundtrack: "Do The Right Thing".....
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Public Enemy, also known as PE, is an influential hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for its politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community.
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Public Enemy number forty-four on its list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Acclaimed Music ranks them the 29th most recommended musical act of all time and the highest hip-hop group. The group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local mc who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene.
This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D's songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled.
According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, "represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we're not third-world people, we're first-world people; we're the original people [of the earth]."
On the track "Louder Than a Bomb" from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Chuck D reveals that the D in his nickname stands for Dangerous.
Developing his talents as an MC with Flavor Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record "Check out the Radio," backed by "Lies," a social commentary—both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run-D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. The group was signed to the still developing Def Jam Recordings record label after co-founder Rick Rubin heard Chuck D freestyling on a demo.
Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Rubin and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song "Public Enemy Number One" he had heard from Andre "Doctor Dré" Brown. According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, "Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth. Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group's Minister of Information. With the addition of Flavor Flav and another local mobile DJ named Terminator X, the group Public Enemy was born." Public Enemy opened for The Beastie Boys on some of their East Coast concerts, including Philadelphia, Newark and Brooklyn.
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- published: 12 Jul 2009
- views: 1564053
6:46
Chuck D On CNN. Since Regan & Bush There's Been Nothing But Guns & Drugs In Black Community
chuck d cnn | Chuck D. told Costello, that when he was growing up, there were no guns in...
published: 26 Feb 2013
Chuck D On CNN. Since Regan & Bush There's Been Nothing But Guns & Drugs In Black Community
chuck d cnn | Chuck D. told Costello, that when he was growing up, there were no guns in the black community. However, after 1980 and the rise of the Ronald Reagan/George Bush-era, he says that "there's been nothing but guns and drugs in the black community."
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Costello asked Chuck D. for his thoughts on the killing of Martin. "One man had a gun and one didn't, and we're going on a story that this man is telling everybody," Chuck D. said.
"The bottom line is this: back when I was growing up, you couldn't' find a gun on anybody," he continued. "Since 1980, the beginning of R&B;, Regan and Bush, there's been nothing but guns and drugs in the black community for the last 30-some-odd years."
Chuck D. added that this period saw the beginning of a dramatic increase in the incarceration of black males. "And nobody seems to give a clear answer," he continued. "Race is America's folly."
When asked for his thoughts on the Martin murder case, New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat said he thought "we should have a trial."
"It might be helpful for everybody commenting on this case to watch the trial unfold, and see how the evidence is presented, and come to conclusions that might be somewhat more informed than the conclusions we've been making for the past year on the basis of selective leaks from both sides," Douthat added.
Later in the segment, Costello equated the Martin murder case to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. She said that "everybody, like, knows, pretty much, that O.J. Simpson is guilty of that, but that trial didn't prove much."
"Everybody?" Chuck D. asked incredulously.
- published: 26 Feb 2013
- views: 4134
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MCA ´s (Adam Yauch) true words from 1998 !!!! - RIP
Chuck D presents the Beastie Boys with the Video Vanguard award at the 1998 VMAs.
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published: 05 May 2012
MCA ´s (Adam Yauch) true words from 1998 !!!! - RIP
Chuck D presents the Beastie Boys with the Video Vanguard award at the 1998 VMAs.
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"It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam 'MCA' Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer," reads an official statement from the Beastie Boys. "He was 47 years old."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-co-founder-adam-yauch-dead-at-48-20120504#ixzz1tx43DAze
- published: 05 May 2012
- views: 283436
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Chuck D about CNN and Hip-Hop
(www.RAPproject.tv) Chuck D is interviewed about CNN's report about hip-hop. Is CNN: News...
published: 06 Apr 2007
Chuck D about CNN and Hip-Hop
(www.RAPproject.tv) Chuck D is interviewed about CNN's report about hip-hop. Is CNN: News or Poison?
- published: 06 Apr 2007
- views: 36310
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Lars Ulrich, Chuck D And Charlie Rose On Napster In 2000
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy debate the legal war over...
published: 17 Apr 2011
Lars Ulrich, Chuck D And Charlie Rose On Napster In 2000
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy debate the legal war over free music downloaded on the Internet.
- published: 17 Apr 2011
- views: 16468
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Chuck D - The Autobiography Of Mistachuck [ FULL ALBUM ].wmv
Released October 22, 1996
Producer Gary G-Wiz, Eric "Vietnam" Saddler, Chuck D, Abnormal,...
published: 18 Aug 2012
Chuck D - The Autobiography Of Mistachuck [ FULL ALBUM ].wmv
Released October 22, 1996
Producer Gary G-Wiz, Eric "Vietnam" Saddler, Chuck D, Abnormal, Gerald "Soul G" Stevens, Mark Harrison, Kerwin "Sleek" Young, Isaac Hayes
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy. About.com ranked him #9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him #12 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.
Chuck D has noted that he often comes up with a title for a song first, in the books How to Rap and Check the Technique and that he writes on paper, though he sometimes edits using a computer. He also prefers to not punch in vocals,and he prefers to not overdub vocals.Chuck D is known for his powerful rapping voice - How to Rap says, "Chuck D of Public Enemy has a powerful, resonant voice that is often acclaimed as one of the most distinct and impressive in hip-hop",and Chuck D says this was based on listening to Melle Mel and sportscasters such as Marv Albert.
Track listing
"Mistachuck" (Ridenhour/Stevens)
"No" (Harrison/Jason/Ridenhour)
"Generation Wrekkked" (Dubose/Jason/Ridenhour)
"Niggativity...Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?" (Ridenhour/Rinaldo)
"Free Big Willie" (Isley Bros./Jasper/Ridenhour/Stevens/Gerald)
"Horizontal Heroin" (Griffin/Ridenhour/Young)
"Talk Show Created the Fool" (Brewser/Dubose/Ridenhour)
"Underdog" (Ridenhour/Rinaldo)
"But Can You Kill the Nigger in You?" (Hayes/Ridenhour/Saddler)
"Endonesia" (Dash/R. Harding/Ridenhour/Stevens/Watkins/Young)
"The Pride" (DeHaney/Ridenhour/Stevens/Williams)
"Paid" (Dash/Key/Ridenhour/Rinaldo/Walker)
Samples
"No"
"Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix
"Get Outta' My Life, Woman" by The New Apocalypse
"Free Big Willie"
"Ain't I Been Good to You?" by The Isley Brothers
"Mistachuck"
"Batdance" by Prince
"Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" by Crooklyn Dodgers
"Paid"
"Gimme The Loot" by The Notorious B.I.G.
"Underdog"
"Get Out of My Life, Woman" by The Mad Lads
- published: 18 Aug 2012
- views: 5304
3:16
Chuck D of Public Enemy on 9/11
Chuck D of Public Enemy speaks out about 9/11.
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published: 20 Aug 2012
Chuck D of Public Enemy on 9/11
Chuck D of Public Enemy speaks out about 9/11.
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- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 23832
3:11
Chuck D On the Beastie Boys' rap revolution
Backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Public Enemy rapper Chuck ...
published: 17 Apr 2012
Chuck D On the Beastie Boys' rap revolution
Backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Public Enemy rapper Chuck D reminisced about playing early Beastie Boys records on the radio in Long Island in the early Eighties. "People talk about Jay-Z and Eminem, but it's impossible to talk about those dudes without the magnitude of LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys, who made it possible for them," he says. "That's evolution, but the revolution is LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys."
Interview by Patrick Doyle, video by Eric Helton and Max Tiberi
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- published: 17 Apr 2012
- views: 26958
4:24
Chuck D - Fear Of A Black Planet (20TH ANNIVERSARY Q&A;)
20 years after Public Enemy's landmark album "Fear of a Black Planet," Chuck D tells Billb...
published: 12 Apr 2010
Chuck D - Fear Of A Black Planet (20TH ANNIVERSARY Q&A;)
20 years after Public Enemy's landmark album "Fear of a Black Planet," Chuck D tells Billboard.com what went into its making.
Interview by Gail Mitchell, March 2010.
Camera by Mike Gordon
Edited by Matthew Campbell
- published: 12 Apr 2010
- views: 27414
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Chuck D on Beastie Boys at Rock Hall 2012 Induction
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Shot live backstage at the 2012 R...
published: 16 Apr 2012
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Chuck D on Beastie Boys at Rock Hall 2012 Induction
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- published: 16 Apr 2012
- views: 22888
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CHUCK D Speaks With CNN On TRAYVON MARTIN 1 Year Anniversary Killing
CHUCK D Speaks With CNN On TRAYVON MARTIN 1 Year Anniversary Killing...
published: 26 Feb 2013
CHUCK D Speaks With CNN On TRAYVON MARTIN 1 Year Anniversary Killing
CHUCK D Speaks With CNN On TRAYVON MARTIN 1 Year Anniversary Killing
- published: 26 Feb 2013
- views: 1951
4:08
LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip)
LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whad...
published: 12 Feb 2013
LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip)
LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip) LL Cool J - Whaddup (Ft. Chuck D Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Z-Trip)
- published: 12 Feb 2013
- views: 2467
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Tom Morello, Z -Trip, Chuck D on Grammy Red Carpet - Grammy Awards 2013
Tom Morello denies Rage Against the Machine reunion rumors when Tom Morello, Z-Trip and Ch...
published: 11 Feb 2013
Tom Morello, Z -Trip, Chuck D on Grammy Red Carpet - Grammy Awards 2013
Tom Morello denies Rage Against the Machine reunion rumors when Tom Morello, Z-Trip and Chuck D spoke to Fuse on the red carpet of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
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- published: 11 Feb 2013
- views: 4240