Though he spares virtually no one with his withering raps, Public Enemy's Chuck D is harshest of all on his fellow blacks, expounding on everything from history to fashion: Use your brain instead of a gun.
However, the fact that Mr. Rich seems to be celebrating the cultural victory of gangsta rap is an enemy-of-my-enemy mentality taken to new heights.
Thursday's preview night, a live show by rap veterans Public Enemy, is followed by the launch party proper on Friday, with DJs John Digweed, Danny Howells and Steve Bug.
There's a rushed history of John Lennon's political development in a chapter on "Give Peace a Chance," a tour of the birth of punk and the rivalry between the Sex Pistols and the Clash in a chapter on "White Riot," and a peek into the intense rap of Public Enemy in a discussion of "Fight the Power".
For Chuck D, lead MC for the agitprop rap collective Public Enemy, the issue of Sterling's purported racism is indivisible from certain matters of the heart: "Everyone surprised about Donald Sterling?
Mr Teller has already managed to tempt a couple of big names Public Enemy, a rap group, and Ice T, a rap artist away from the big companies.
The most high-profile of the new rap artists — N.W.A., Public Enemy, Snoop Dogg — refused to play to the perceived tastes of a mainstream audience.
In the course of any given day, he might express enthusiasm for Italian postmodern painters, a new rap song by Public Enemy, the oxtail soup served at a dumpy little Haitian restaurant on Tenth Avenue, the actor who played Grandpa Munster on "The Munsters," Malcolm X, high-end stereo components, medieval armor, dogs, women, and nicely designed long-haul trucks.
The latter – one of the founder members of Frankie's label Zang Tumb Tuum (ZTT) along with Horn and Horn's wife Jill Sinclair – might consider Frankie a "Dada boy band", but in a way they were a prequel to Public Enemy, the rap collective with multiple auxiliary members: Rutherford was a less camp Security of the First World, Horn a one-man Bomb Squad and Morley the Minister of Information.
Chuck D of Public Enemy's "rap is the CNN of the black community" comment summarized our activity.
