Hip-hop artist Chuck D will deliver the keynote address at a violence prevention program in Huntsville.
Public Enemy formed in Long Island, N.Y., and the group’s classic lineup also featured hype man deluxe Flavor Flav and the DJ Terminator X. Essential PE albums include 1988′s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” and 1990′s “Fear of a Black Planet.” Lyrically, Chuck D’s rhymes often address the realities of the modern Black experience.
Chuck, did the music recorded here in Alabama at Muscle Shoals, by artists like Aretha Franklin, Staple Singers and The Rolling Stones mean a lot to you?No question. I grew up with that. I grew up in a Stax, Atlantic, Motown household. And, of course, a big fan of [Sun Records founder] Sam Phillips, who’s from that area, so knowing how all this stuff works and how it was in retrospect, I’m a big fan of the region.
Yeah, the magnitude was tremendous. I played in Birmingham many a time and I remember specifically when I played in the Birmingham [Jefferson Civic Center] Arena, and I was surprised, my first year playing with LL Cool J, at how packed it was -- 20,000 people up in there. I was like, “Wow, Birmingham turns it out.”
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