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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop

The Public Enemy frontman has always been one of rap music’s most articulate advocates, but in 2022 he shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, Chuck D talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future
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On Leaders And Leadership – A Conversation With Chuck D

As they release their first album on the Def Jam label for 22 years, Public Enemy's Chuck D discusses the past, the present and the possible future with Angus Batey
Anniversary

Infallible: Where Did Son Of Bazerk Go Wrong?

In the latest of his stellar hip hop retrospectives, Angus Batey looks back at one of rap's great lost albums, Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk, asking where did they go wrong and where are they today?
A Quietus Interview

You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits
Anniversary

20 Years On: Ice Cube’s Death Certificate Revisited

Angus Batey looks at the 360-degree attack of one of the most creatively independent yet offensive hip hop albums ever made
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Rap Is Not Afraid Of You: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

Dayal Patterson catches up with an all-time Quietus hero Chuck D and shoots the shit about stagecraft, Africa and the presence of politics in hip hop. Live photographs courtesy of Maria Jefferis/Shot2Bits.net
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Flash Bang Wallop: The Grandmaster Interviewed

Grandmaster Flash may have a rep as an unstoppable egotist (who wouldn't be under the circumstances?) but John Doran found him to be good company

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