Public Enemy este o trupă americană de hip hop formată din Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff și grupul său S1W, DJ Lord și Khari Wynn. Formată în Long Island, New York în 1982, Public Enemy este cel mai cunoscută pentru versurile politice și de critică asupra mass-mediei din Americane prin intermediul cărora trupa își manifestă interesul pentru frustrările și îngrijorările comunității afroamericane.
Membrii formației
Chuck D (Carlton D. Ridenhour) - MC Flavor Flav (William Drayton) – hype man, ocazional lead vocal Khari Wynn – music director DJ Lord (Lord Aswod) – DJ Professor Griff (Richard Griffin) - Minister of Information
Foști membri Terminator X (Norman Rogers) – DJ, producer) Brother James (James Norman) Brother Roger The Interrorgator (Shawn K Carter), Crunch S1W Jacob "Big Jake" Shankle The Bomb Squad Hank Shocklee (James Henry Boxley III) *original member Keith Shocklee (Keith Boxley) *original member Eric "Vietnam" Sadler *original member Gary G-Wiz (Gary Rinaldo) (took Eric Sadler's place when Sadler left group)
Discografie
1987: Yo! Bum Rush the Show 1988: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 1990: Fear of a Black Planet 1991: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black 1992: Greatest Misses 1994: Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age 1998: He Got Game 1999: There's a Poison Goin' On 2002: Revolverlution 2005: New Whirl Odor 2006: Rebirth of a Nation (with Paris) 2007: How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? 2012: Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp 2012: The Evil Empire of Everything
Premii și nominalizări Premiile Grammy
AnLucrare nominalizatăPremiuRezultat1990"Fight the Power"Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group1991Fear of a Black PlanetBest Rap Performance by a Duo or Group1992Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes BackBest Rap Performance by a Duo or Group1993Greatest MissesBest Rap Performance by a Duo or Group1995"Bring the Noise" (with Anthrax)Best Metal Performance
American Music Awards AnLucrare nominalizatăPremiuRezultat1989It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us BackFavorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album1991Fear of a Black PlanetFavorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album1992Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes BackFavorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame AnLucrare nominalizatăPremiuRezultat2013SelfInductees
Note
Bibliografie Young Rick- cofounder/ cowriter of lyrics*Chuck D with Yusuf Jah, Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Off Da Books, 2007 ISBN 0-9749484-1-1 Chuck D with Yusuf Jah, Fight the Power, Delacorte Press, 1997 ISBN 0-385-31868-5 Fuck You Heroes, Glen E. Friedman Photographs 1976-1991, Burning Flags Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9641916-0-1 White, Miles. Race, Rap and the performance of Masculinity in American Popular Culture. 2011. University of Illinois. Urbana. ISBN 978-0-252-07832-3
Legături externe Official website Videos Discography at Discogs Live performance of Public Enemy Chuck D Interview: Intellectual Vietnam (Part One) Chuck D Interview: Intellectual Vietnam (Part Two)
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