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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.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Evening Standard

The week in audio: Can You Dig It?; Blond Ambition; The Lavender Scare; For Fitness Sake – review

A docu-drama digs deep into the origins of hip-hop, which turned 50 this week, while BBC Sounds deciphers Madonna’s success. Plus: an anti-LGBT witch-hunt in 1950s America

The Guardian - UK

Hip-hop turns 50: How French rap became the 'second nation' under a groove

Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades of intense renewal and influenced a plethora of musicians around the world – including in France.

Radio France Internationale

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Queen Latifah, Chuck D and more rap legends on 'Rapper's Delight' and their early hip-hop influences

Remember the first rap song you heard

The Independent UK

Can’t get Netflix’s Wham! out your head? Go backstage with these 8 top pop star docs

The best pop documentaries to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV Plus and more.

TechRadar

Update your beach read: 52 books for summer 2023, with some themes in mind

Let’s try something new this summer.

Chicago Tribune

‘It was fun until it wasn’t’: hip-hop A&R Dante Ross on De La Soul, ODB – and punchups with P Diddy

Hailed as the genre’s Forrest Gump for his time with artists from Busta Rhymes to Santana, today Ross contends that streaming, sampling and materialism have changed the genre beyond recognition

The Guardian - UK

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Chuck D, who is rolling out new 'culture app,' will be honored at NAMM Show

SAN DIEGO — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Chuck D will make a double impact at the 122nd annual NAMM Show, which runs Thursday through Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Chuck D talks rap's rise through 'Fight the Power' doc

Hip-hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history, and now Public Enemy’s Chuck D has committed himself to explore its origins

The Independent UK

MIDI’s 40th anniversary is set to be celebrated at the 2023 NAMM Show, and MIDI 2.0 is also being previewed

Plus, Chuck D will be on hand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop

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Los Angeles Times

Rapper Ice-T feels the love at Hollywood Walk of Fame: ‘You are indeed the real O.G.’

LOS ANGELES — Ice-T’s reputation as an O.G. original gangster is now set in stone — in the form of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The rapper and actor was honored with a recording industry star Friday, the walk’s 2,747th, at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

Salon

Chuck D on hip-hop's power, 50 years on

The legendary rapper on politics, his Top 5 songs and PBS series "Fight The Power: How Hip-Hop Changed The World"

Evening Standard

When hip hop came to town - remembering the night that Public Enemy dazzled London

There is a London moment that’s etched into hip hop legend: the night in 1987 when Public Enemy stunned the British crowd at Hammersmith Odeon. As their leader Chuck D’s new hip hop documentary lands on the BBC, Tom Ellen revisits this incendiary first trip to the capital

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Extraordinary; Everyone Else Burns; Grayson Perry’s Full English; Lockwood & Co

Starstruck meets early Sharon Horgan in Emma Moran’s riotous comedy of twentysomething angst; Simon Bird excels as a preening evangelist. Plus, a thoughtful meander through England with Grayson Perry

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The Guardian - UK

Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World review – Chuck D is a brilliant history teacher

Some of the greatest pop music ever made gets the respectful, rigorous sociological treatment it deserves – thanks to this documentary series from the Public Enemy star

Evening Standard

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World on BBC Two sheds new light on the genre

This Chuck D led documentary is a fascinating look at how the music genre has fought for change

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Chuck D’s fantastic series about the world-changing power of hip hop

KRS-One, Roxanne Shanté and Ice-T also take part in the standout documentary. Plus: an explosive finale for the gripping Mystery Road: Origin. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Chuck D: ‘Bringing rap to the UK was our British invasion’

The founder of Public Enemy answers your questions on the future of hip-hop, police harassment and whether he has ever ridden on an ostrich

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Public Enemy’s Chuck D

Here’s your chance to ask the New York hip-hip icon anything you like – whether it’s about the founding of Public Enemy, his political activism or his work on Grand Theft Auto

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The new ‘Elvis’ movie celebrates a man many see as a cultural thief

When Elvis Presley died in 1977, Lester Bangs argued his death marked the end of consensus in American culture.

Los Angeles Times

UCLA announces ambitious ‘Hip Hop Initiative’ with Chuck D as artist in residence

LOS ANGELES — Two years ago at the California African American Museum in downtown Los Angeles, three titans of East Coast rap converged for a roundtable: influential “Paid in Full” rapper Rakim; Public Enemy’s cofounder Chuck D; and indie rap royalty Talib Kweli.

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