BlackPressUSA.com<\/a>, Chuck D debuted the group\u2019s new single, \u201cFood as a Machine Gun.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe single features a reunion of Chuck D and Flavor Flav. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the most important rap record ever,\u201d said Chuck D.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called the record important because it arrives at a time when many still take hip-hop for granted, and that includes African Americans and the artists themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLast year, I finished a four-year tour of the world with Prophets of Rage, and we played to packed stadiums and I watched Rage Against the Machine do a five-night run to sold out crowds in the (Madison Square) Garden. I saw how loyal their fans were and how wild they are. How much they loved their rock stars,\u201d Chuck D said. \u201cWith hip-hop, our fans aren\u2019t like that, and the artists are led by their having to get breadcrumbs.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said the media and others had taken away the narrative from hip-hop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNow, it\u2019s time to take the narrative back from those who have side-swiped it. They need to be eliminated,\u201d Chuck D added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In February, news outlets reported that Flavor had been fired from Public Enemy after a dispute erupted between him and Chuck over the group\u2019s performance during a Bernie Sanders campaign rally. Flavor\u2019s lawyers released a statement saying that the rapper hadn\u2019t consented and was against the group supporting Sanders. Things appeared to have heated up in the feud after Chuck took to Twitter and seemed to \u201cout\u201d Flavor as having a substance abuse problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Chuck explained to the NNPA Newswire that, while Flav does enjoy a Hennessy and chaser a little more frequently than what he believes a 60-year-old should, there\u2019s never been an accusation of drug abuse, in contrast to the meaning that many took way from Chuck\u2019s tweets on social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFlav\u2019s name was dragged through the mud so much in 2018 and 2019, so I had to do something to bring him up,\u201d Chuck explained to NNPA Newswire. \u201cMy name is kind of Teflon, but his wasn\u2019t, so I thought this was a way of bringing him up. I had people say, \u2018why are you doing stuff to Flav?\u2019 I responded that \u2018you aren\u2019t supporting him. What are you doing to support him?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further, Flav wasn\u2019t fired because \u201cyou can\u2019t fire a partner,\u201d Chuck D stated. \u201cIt shows you that people don\u2019t pay attention.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called the banter between him and Flav a \u201choax that ain\u2019t no joke.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a serious hoax,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the coronavirus outbreak, Chuck and Flav have worked tirelessly on the new CD. Chuck also has worked on a second CD that includes several friends from the hip-hop community. Both CDs were released simultaneously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a degree in the arts, Chuck has also applied his talents as a graphics, sketch and caricature artist. He chronicled the past month in a journal filled with narratives and sketches, including eye-opening renderings of Prince, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Notorious BIG and many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was dismayed about how the whole narrative of hip-hop went into the area where we only talk about dead rappers,\u201d Chuck D stated. \u201cCommon gave probably the most incredible performance I had ever seen on television at the NBA All-Star Game in February, and you only heard crickets. Pop Smoke got killed, and the media was on it, and his records rose up the charts. We went through this with Nipsey Hustle. The narrative is that you\u2019ve got to be a dead rapper to be relevant in the news, and that\u2019s disrespectful. I want to use this as a teachable moment. All of that stuff with Flav and Bernie Sanders and the lawyers was all part of a plan. I wanted to see what happens when you present a bad look. And, it worked. I was trending for a bad look, and I thought that for more than 30 years, Public Enemy has given you nothing but good looks. We made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but this situation with Flav got us trending more than we did then. Thirty years after I made \u2018Fear of a Black Planet,\u2019 the digital age is fixed on what they see.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because people tend to be more visual today, Chuck said he thought he\u2019d chronicle the past 30 days. He didn\u2019t anticipate a pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJust thought I\u2019d show things in pictures with the book, and the coronavirus came along, and there was even more to do,\u201d he stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book is titled, \u201cThere\u2019s a Poison Going On,\u201d but the name was decided upon long before the pandemic, Chuck assured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s ironic because, for the whole month of March, there\u2019s been a poison going on for real,\u201d he stated. \u201cMaybe, people will pay attention to a good look the next time and not always a bad look.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It turns out the social media beef between Public Enemy icons Chuck D and Flavor Flav was a hoax. \u201cApril Fools\u201d \u2013 sort of. Chuck and Flavor recently released new music, and the relationship between the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legends remains \u201cas tight as ever.\u201d In an exclusive interview with National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr., broadcast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1251,1644,1275],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chuck-d","tag-flavor-flav","tag-national-newspaper-publishers-association-nnpa","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}