Entertainment

Oh, it looks like Flavor Flav has officially been kicked out the group Public Enemy after 37 years hyping us up! Reports say that it’s all because of a Bernie Sanders rally. According to RollingStone, the firing came just 2 days after Flav (William Jonathon Drayton Jr.) sent a cease and desist letter to presidential […]

Celebrity News

TMZ caught Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and asked his thoughts on the Las Vegas mass shooting. Knowing Chuck, he didn’t hold back his feelings. “The NRA is a terrorist organization and this administration back them up and doesn’t utter the words. Now they are scared that now a 21-year-old is now cognizant of the NRA. […]

News & Gossip

Bill Cosby has another ally from the music world in his corner. Legendary rapper and one half of Public Enemy, Chuck D, shared his thoughts on the…

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http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/rock-hall-inductees-to-be-announced-tuesday CLEVELAND – The musicians for the 2013 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be announced Tuesday afternoon. Fifteen artists have…

Features

In 1988, Public Enemy’s “Night Of The Living Baseheads” was one of the most vocal indictments of crack cocaine use ever heard on record. The haunting video was the real life version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” with zombie-like “baseheads” dragging themselves about. Pop Culture Moment #1: Chappelle’s Show Premieres What many fans at the time […]

It's All Black Music

While many TV audiences know William Drayton, aka Flavor Flav, as a colorful (and sometimes polarizing) figure on his reality TV shows,  the multi-talent came to prominence for many as a member of the rap group Public Enemy. Public Enemy’s messages of Black power and social consciousness run contrary to some of the images we’ve […]

Music videos weren’t exactly a new phenomenon when MTV debuted in 1981. French musicians had been making short films to accompany their songs since the invention of the Scopitone visual jukebox in the late 1950s. However, MTV’s launch upped not only the quantity of music videos being produced, but the quality. We racked our brains […]