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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"Sasha what?" exclaimed rap artist and reality-TV star Flavor Flav on Wednesday evening in response to a question by one of the many reporters crowded around him during his visit to the Sasha Bruce House for homeless youth in Southeast Washington. Flav knew that he and other members of his reunited rap group, Public Enemy, were hosting a Thanksgiving dinner to raise awareness of homeless...
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Public Enemy came to D.C. Wednesday on a mission–not to fight the power, but rather to use the band's influence to fight youth homelessness in the District and the rest of the country. The evening began at the Sasha Bruce House , where Chuck D, Flavor Flav and the rest of the iconic hip-hop group toured the facility and hosted a pre-Thanksgiving dinner for more than 30 homeless youths. Following...
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
View Larger Map Public Enemy has turned public friend #1 for their performance in the District. Tomorrow night, Long Island Music Hall of Fame inductees, rap-rock progenitors, and occasional television mugs Chuck D and Flavor Flav are playing GW's Lisner Auditorium – where you can advance to the front of the house for the price of admission plus a winter coat . If that deal's not enough, you...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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Nice Up (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Reggae's most prolific and engaging artist Anthony B was notified that he could be nominated for a Grammy Award in the field "Best Reggae Album" for the 2009 release "Rize Up."
The Boombox Music Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Television Public Enemy hype man turned reality TV star, Flavor Flav is the latest name added to the list of celebs failing to pay taxes. The New York native owes more than $183,000 to the state of California. According to reports a lien for $183,800 was filed against Flav in Sacramento County Court on Sept. 17. His manager explained that he had forwarded an email...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
FLAVOR FLAV is the latest celebrity to fall behind with his finances - the rapper owes more than $183,000 (114,375) in unpaid taxes.The hip-hop star - real name...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Certainly not! There are people schooled in Western music and its culture who claim to flat out not like the Beatles. Those people, of course, fall into two categories. Serial contrarians and members of a secret race of human-cloning aliens that have been living among us for hundreds of years. Even Chuck D, the frontman for hip-hop's Public Enemy who once claimed "Elvis never meant shit to me",...
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The IRS is coming for another Hip Hop star, as Flav has yet to pay up on his taxes.
Celebrity News Buzz (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Rapper-turned-reality star Flavor Flav has had his tax records land online showing him owing over $183,000 to the state of California. Flavor Flav, 50, real name William Drayton, is a member of legendary rap group Public Enemy, and lately has starred in several seasons of VH1’s reality show “Flavor of Love.” The state of California filed [...]
Going Out Gurus (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Donate a jacket to charity and you could be this close to Chuck D and Flava Flav when Public Enemy plays at Lisner Auditorium on Nov. 18. (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) One of the highlights of August's Virgin Mobile FreeFest was the set turned in by rap pioneers Public Enemy. Said me, at the time: "[the band], led by outspoken frontman Chuck D, turned fiery polemics such as 'Fight the...
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By: Bernard Chazelle Public Enemy's political voice may have obscured the enduring brilliance of their work. It's been 21 years since the release of "It Takes a Nation" and it's hard to believe how fresh, innovative, and emotionally powerful that album still sounds. The raw energy of Chuck D's booming voice, trading rhymes with Flavor Flav, is channeled through a layered mix of swirling...
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If you happen to pass by Sean Combs, be sure to wish him a happy birthday, as the man better known as Diddy turns 40 years old today. While it's bizarre to think if Diddy as a guy in the depths of middle age, it's also odd to think that he isn't older. Diddy has [...]
33 1/3 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
One of the 33 1/3 books we'll be publishing in the early spring of 2010 is Christopher Weingarten's stellar study of Public Enemy's second album. Here's an early taste of the book: *** Around the release of Revolution , James Brown started noticing that radio was being segregated and formatted by genre. Despite the fact that he sold tons of records (he would have two No. 1 R&B singles in 1971,...
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The iconic label celebrates a quarter century of influencing the music industry.
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janebaron | 10/19/2009
Troops were popular as an urban / hip-hop sneaker in the 80s and the 90s. The sneakers were endorsed by the likes of LL Cool J, MC Hammer, Ultramagnetic MCs, Stetsasonic, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Flava Flav as well as Ghostface Killah, Cool Kids, Mickey Factz and Teriyaki Boys. The sneakers were bright, bold and cheaply made. They did not necessarily last as long as other more mainstream sneakers, but...
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