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Chuck D talks Public Enemy LPs, rappers’ social responsibility
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 17 January 2012
Public Enemy’s Chuck D has revealed that the hip hop group intend to release two new albums this year. Produced by longstanding collaborator Gary G-Wiz, the first of these, ‘Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp’ (take that, PETA poster-boy and US stamp star Russell Simmons) is due out in June. A successor entitled, ‘The Evil Empire Of Everything’, is expected in September, with Chuck D describing the dual LPs as “two concise statements that are connected in the same breath”.
D also spoke to Billboard about the group’s part in LA street festival Operation: Skid Row, proceeds from which will fund stable housing for low-income families.
He said: “[Outsiders] look at rap music, and artists in hip hop, as being as elitist as the power structures that keep them down. My place in hip hop is not to be a tycoon, making trillions with a yacht. That’s not my place. My place is maybe bringing people together and me being able to identify and illuminate a cause, and we’ll make it comfortable for them to be themselves, but say what they’ve really been wanting to say all along, you know, with my protection”.
Well said indeed. Read the rest of the Billboard interview here.
