Posts Tagged: Public Enemy
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Chuck D To Welcome Beastie Boys To The Terror Dome

"Chuck D, Public Enemy’s No. 1, will induct fellow New York rap act Beastie Boys. The groups’ debut albums were released within two months of each other. The Beasties have topped the Billboard 200 album chart four times." —Next month, when Chuck D gives his speech to induct the Beastie Boys into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it would be funny if he quoted himself and referred to the three Jewish rappers being "so-called chosen/frozen" for perpetuity among the pantheon of rock greats. I love the Beastie Boys and I think they're deserving of all accolades available. But I think the Rock and Roll Hall of [...]

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On This Day in History: 'Spin' Magazine, March, 1990

Picture it! March, 1990. Twenty years ago. Public Enemy's third album, "Fear of a Black Planet," was coming out in April-and then-popular music rag Spin put them on the cover. Sort of. They got the big type, but the B-52s got the picture. ("Love Shack" had just been a big hit!) And then there was another of Spin's long series of interesting if often insanely misguided articles on AIDS-this one by B. D. Colen was totally sensible!

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Public Enemy Started Scaring White People 25 Years Ago Today

"Rap History: This Day in 1987 Public Enemy release Yo! Bum Rush The Show."

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Billboard's Chart Race Adds Fuel To Race War Fire

Elvis may have been a hero to most, but he hasn't had a new album in over thirty years. And now, somehow appropriate during this week of full blown race war, Jay-Z has just displaced him as the American artist, and the solo artist, with the most no. 1 albums on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart, ever. Jay-Z is black. Elvis, who died in 1977, was actually white.

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20 Albums That Are Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary In 2010, Thus Making Me Feel Old

20. Depeche Mode, Violator 19. Bell Biv DeVoe, Poison 18. Fugazi, Repeater 17. Sinéad O'Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 16. Deee-Lite, World Clique