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“Burn Hollywood Burn is a protest song. Has nothing to do with families, losing everything they have in a natural disaster.” Public Enemy's Chuck D calls out edgelords using his song to soundtrack online footage of devastating Los Angeles fires

“Please don’t use our song on your reels and pictures of this horrifying natural disaster.”

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“Teenage Dirtbag has always felt like a bit of a queer anthem to me, even if it wasn’t meant to be - I love that I didn’t have to change a single lyric”: Cat Burns releases “unapologetic” cover of Wheatus’s 2000 hit

A new version of the song that was designed to sound like “Metallica, AC/DC, Paul Simon and James Taylor from the waist up,” and “LL Cool J and Public Enemy” from the waist down

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Police allegedly pepper-sprayed 13-year-old at Sydney rally, legal observers say – as it happened

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Fight the Power: rap pioneers Public Enemy book in Newcastle gig

It's part of their 35th anniversary On The Grid national tour.

Newcastle Herald

"Public Enemy gave the establishment something to fear, an intelligent, angry, politicised, uncompromising voice for disenfranchised black America." A beginner's guide to Def Jam Recordings in five essential albums

Def Jam is the most influential record label in hip-hip history. Here is your guide to its most significant releases

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"You can hear Aphex Twin homages all over Hybrid Theory." Mike Shinoda: 10 songs that changed my life

From Public Enemy and Dr. Dre to Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against The Machine, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda guides us through the songs that helped make him a nu metal star

Metal Hammer

"Probably two percent of all photographers in those days were black", Normski recalls how he became the man with the golden shutter in the age of hip-hop

From its humble beginnings, Normski recorded the rise of hip-hop culture as it became a global phenomenon

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Fifty years of hip hop

Its widely accepted birth date is 11 August 1973, when a now legendary party was thrown in a community room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, a tower block in the Bronx, New York. It was organised by Cindy Campbell, a Jamaican-born teenager, who charged 25 cents for ladies and 50 cents…

The Week

Public Enemy, Ice-T to headline free D.C. concerts, The National Celebration of Hip Hop

Hip-hop, the most popular genre in America, turns 50 this August

The Independent UK

"The N.W.A. attitude is we don't give a f**k": how Straight Outta Compton changed hip-hop, and then the world

Released on August 8, 1988, N.W.A.'s explosive debut album Straight Outta Compton remains one of the most powerful protest records ever

Louder

9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer

From hip hop legends Public Enemy to Essex rave punks The Prodigy, here are some of the musicians who've sprinkled the Devil's music in amongst their own delicious chaos

Metal Hammer

Hip-hop’s greats unite to salute the genre’s 50th anniversary at 2023 Grammys

LOS ANGELES — Once shunned by the Recording Academy, the 2023 Grammy Awards paid homage to 50 years of hip-hop history on Sunday with performances by influential artists from the genre’s past, present and future.

Los Angeles Times

Swizz Beatz will be featured in Grammy Awards all-star 50th anniversary of hip-hop tribute Sunday

SAN DIEGO — The Grammy Awards on Thursday announced an all-star tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop segment as part of Sunday's 65th annual Grammy Awards telecast and the lineup includes La Jolla resident and 2011 Grammy-winner Swizz Beatz. He is married to singer-songwriter and 15-time Grammy Award-winner Alicia…

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Between the covers: Librarian reveals left-behind treasures

Oakland (United States) (AFP) - Family photos, a Public Enemy backstage pass, a weekend to-do list ("Saturday: file taxes, Sunday: chill, watch game") and unused beer vouchers from 2002: it's amazing what people leave in library books.

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