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Public Enemy’s Chuck D: ‘Bob Vylan ain’t got no tanks... You can’t really kill nobody with a guitar or a microphone’

INTERVIEW: The leader of hip-hop’s first great radical band talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the ‘fight for peace and love by any means necessary’, why he won't refer to the US president by name, Elvis Presley, and ageism in hip-hop

The Independent UK

“Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and it was minor key and dark. If you could take that to the next level, you could make it heavy metal”: How hip hop changed metal forever

Anthrax, Rage Against The Machine and Korn all owe a debt to hip hop

Metal Hammer

Public Enemy and Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir return to London after long absence

Both acts will perform at the Royal Albert Hall in 2025.

Evening Standard

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Gene Barge death: Renowned saxophonist and producer known as 'Daddy G' dies at 98

He co-produced Cole’s Grammy-winning single ‘Sophisticated Lady’ and toured with the Rolling Stones

The Independent UK

Stop using Public Enemy’s ‘Burn Hollywood Burn’ on videos of ‘horrific’ LA fires, pleads Chuck D

‘It has nothing to do with families losing everything they have in a natural disaster,’ said rapper

The Independent UK

Chuck D pleads for people to stop using Public Enemy’s Burn Hollywood Burn on videos of LA fires

The 1990 protest track ‘has nothing to do with families losing everything they have’ says the rapper, hitting out at TikTok and Instagram videos

The Guardian - AU

“Burn Hollywood Burn is a protest song. Has nothing to do with families, losing everything they have in a natural disaster.” Public Enemy's Chuck D calls out edgelords using his song to soundtrack online footage of devastating Los Angeles fires

“Please don’t use our song on your reels and pictures of this horrifying natural disaster.”

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Chuck D criticises use of Public Enemy song during LA fires

The Public Enemy frontman urged people to ‘pray for LA’.

Evening Standard

"Snoop Dogg said he’d had over a billion streams and made less than $43,000 – that should scare the **** out of everyone." Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and more

Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions

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"Tupac stopped me from committing a murder." Public Enemy's Flavor Flav on the night Tupac Shakur talked him out of crushing a thief's skull with a fire extinguisher

Public Service Announcement: don't get caught stealing from Public Enemy

Louder

Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013

That time Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels fronted the ultimate rock supergroup

Louder

"We’ve been trying to get Chuck D to do something with us again." Anthrax talk collabs, politics and using Dave Grohl's studio to record their new album

It's been almost a decade since the last Anthrax album, but the thrash titans have been hard at work

Metal Hammer

“Iggy Pop told me he got a speeding ticket while pumping out the demo!” Asian Dub Foundation's Steve Chandrasonic on his band's collaborations with Iggy Pop, Sinéad O’Connor, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Stewart Lee, Primal Scream and more

Asian Dub Foundation guitarist Steve 'Chandrasonic' Savale gives Louder an exclusive track-by-track guide to 94-Now: Collaborations, a new album celebrating ADF's 30th anniversary

Louder

Chino XL death: Chuck D and Joe Budden lead tributes after rapper dies aged 50

Rapper famously feuded with Tupac after mocking his prison sentence in his 1996 track, ‘Riiiot!’

The Independent UK

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The best of the Cedric Maxwell podcast on the way to Banner 18

From Chuck D to Grant Williams, this season's podcast guests were top-notch.

The Independent UK

From John Lennon to NWA: 14 of the best protest songs, ranked

From Marvin Gaye to Little Simz, here are 14 songs that illuminate the power of protest music to make change, as ranked by Finn Cliff Hodges

Metal Hammer

"Tipper Gore, as misguided as she may have been, her heart was kind of in the right place." Inside Cover Your Ears, the thoughtful new documentary on music censorship starring Dee Snider, Chuck D, Jello Biafra and more

Cover Your Ears attempts to take a fair and balanced look at the phenomenon of music censorship

Newcastle Herald

Fight the Power: rap pioneers Public Enemy book in Newcastle gig

It's part of their 35th anniversary On The Grid national tour.

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Cedric Maxwell talks with Chuck D on rap, and the evolution of the NBA

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Dwight Gooden Honored With Mets Jersey Retirement Ceremony

Former Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden's jersey retirement ceremony at Citi Field honors his career and struggles with substance abuse, emphasizing awareness an...

Chicago Sun-Times

Southeast Side mural pays tribute to hip-hop’s Public Enemy

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Humboldt Park artist Stef Skills loves Public Enemy and paid tribute to the hip-hop icons with a mural

The rap group “baptized me into hip-hop music and culture,” the artist says, with lyrics that helped instill in her “the spirit of activism and being able to question things.”

The Guardian - UK

Tricky: ‘I was less nervous going to prison than I was getting on stage’

As his debut Maxinquaye gets reissued, the Bristolian music legend answers your questions on Beyoncé, Bob Marley and annoying Gary Oldman with a Twix

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a sickness’: Chuck D on his new graphic novel and the ‘madness’ of US gun culture

The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his country

Evening Standard

‘Hip-hop is rooted in rebellion’ - as the genre turns 50, UK artists hail our own unique and powerful scene

Stars from Kojey Radical to So Solid Crew’s Lisa Maffia bang the drum for Britain’s contribution to the form

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