VH1 took a break from creating trashy reality shows to compile a list of The Greatest Hip Hop Songs Of All Time and Public Enemy took top honors with "Fight The Power". Was this an act of giving honest praise to a great song? Or their way of making it to real hip hop fans for airing "The Flavor of Love"?Fight The Power originally appeared on the soundtrack to Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" an...
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I just found out that the ATP events I announced yesterday - where Public Enemy will perform their 1988 album in full - are supported by Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith), Anti-Pop Consortium and Edan. Those shows again are:23 May - London’s Brixton Academy26 May - Manchester Academy27 May - Glasgow ABC1Here's the flyer and if you click on it you will be transported to the ATP festivals website:
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Public Enemy - whose slammin 2007 album How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? was one of the best of the year - just announced that they will perform their 1988 release It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back in its entireity at 3 lives shows in the UK this Spring. Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the pivotal album, Public Enemy will party like its 1988 at:23 ...
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From the Burn Hollywood, Burn Dept: Listen up all you Hip Hop heads, the people who brought the world the Rock the Bells Festival have announced their full talent lineup that includes Cypress Hill, The Roots, Mos Def, EPMD, MF Doom with headlners RATM and the Wu-Tang Clan with a special guests: a newly re-united Public Enemy...I was going to let this one pass but who could give up the chance t...
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Say what you will about the legacy of Chuck D and Public Enemy, the man makes a good point.From cbc.caChuck D, front man of Public Enemy and a major supporter of file sharing, has nothing good to say about major record labels.He warned Canada against following the lead of the U.S. in drafting its copyright legislation. That legislation favours the established recording industry, which is out of...
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Im ready to go home now.
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With so many music fans heading south this week for the SXSW fest, Pitchfork has something for the rest of us to be excited about. Today they announced the first round of confirmed acts for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival and there are some very exciting acts indeed! The festival runs all weekend July 18-20 and here is the lineup thus far:Friday, July 18:Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tom...
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To mark the publication of Russel Myrie's book Don't Rhyme For The Sake of Riddlin': The Authorized Story Of Public Enemy on October 2, 2008, Chuck D will be in London on Friday, October 10, to discuss his life, lyrics/poetry and politics.Tickets for this event are available directly from the South Bank Centre, and the book can be pre-ordered from both Amazon US and Amazon UK.
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Our friends over at Rap Radar reported yesterday (via MTV) that Public Enemy is in talks for an animated movie based on the upcoming Public Enemy graphic novel which hits stores in May. The five part graphic novel is written by Chuck D. While MTV states Chuck D and the crew are in talks with [...]
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Public Enemy released a great new album: "How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?".It's too early to write a thorough review because I just downloaded the songs at "emusic":http://tinyurl.com/3c7wwg. (You can listen to 30-second clips of the entire 20-song album on the "download page":http://tinyurl.com/3c7wwg.)I can ony tell you that it's the best PE album I've heard in a l...
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Download and watch the new movie Public Enemies http://blog-movie.com/Public-Enemies.html
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Photo courtesy Heads of WoolWhat’s good people? If you didn’t know Public Enemy, is playing George Washington University tonight for a concert benefiting the Sasha Bruce House in Southeast. Before they hit Lisner Auditorium, they’ll also be performing on a flatbed truck in Foggy Bottom DC. Details for that here. Tickets are STILL AVAILABLE for [...]
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In the early days of TwentyFourBit, we told you about Patrick Wolf’s effort to raise money for the recording and release of his upcoming album, which was called Battles at the time, but ended up as The Bachelor. Wolf’s experiment utilized...
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Public Enemy wants to make a new record and they are looking at a new form of financial backer to get it off the ground...their fans. That’s right, the fans. That’s what the music industry has come to...panhandling. And I’m not saying don’t give money or its wrong that they are asking. Public Enemy is the shit and there’s no shame in fans supporting the bands they love. What I’m talkin
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The minstrel show better known as Flavor Flav clearly hasn't cashed in enough on those VH1 royalties to fund a new Public Enemy album. Or maybe there's just a political angle to the group's latest move. A couple years removed from their last full-length album, with its masturbatory title How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?, Public Enemy has teamed up with Amsterdam-based...
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