Public Enemy

Hip Hop Pioneers Public Enemy Headline Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival

Kelly Frazier | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Chuck D, Movement Electronic Music Festival, Hip Hop, Movement Festival, Detroit Techno, Flava Flav, Public Enemy, Demf, Public Enemy Detroit, Movement Detroit, Detroit News

With two albums set for this year and a major tour, Public Enemy is set to headline Detroit's annual Movement Electronic Music Festival this Memorial Day weekend at Hart Plaza.

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WATCH: Public Enemy Brings Block-Rocking Beats To Skid Row

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Egyptian Lover, Public Enemy Skid Row, Public Enemy, Skid Row Concert, Skid Row Music, Occupy Skid Row, Skid Row Festival, Chuck D, Video, Hip Hop, Skid Row Block Party, Kurupt, Hip Hop Poverty, Flava Flav, Los Angeles Homeless, Los Angeles News

As home to the largest homeless population in the country, Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles really is the most appropriate venue for hip-hop artists t...

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2011 Year-End Video Performance Review

Michael Vazquez | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: 285 Kent, Capybara, Gil Scott-Heron, Eminem, The Strokes, Bootsy Collins, Anna Calvi, Michael Madsen, Le Poisson Rouge, Hanson, Daniel Stedman, Into Eternity, Prince Rama, Michael Vazquez, 2011, Ashley Capps, Beak, Marian Godell, Mohawk's, Austin, Bonnaroo, Inyang Bassey & Moby, Bowery Ballroom, Sxsw, Rayland Baxter, Escape2ny, Quincey Jones, Bob Geldof, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Todd Rundgren, New York Film Festival, Smokey Robinson, Bruce Springsteen, Martin Scorsese, Upton Sinclair, Festivals, Florence and the Machine, Echo & the Bunnymen, Johnny Marr, John Lydon, Public Enemy, Johnny Rotton, Johnny Rotten, Year-End-Video, Lynton Kwesi Johnson, Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P. Orridge, Video, Entertainment News

This is not a year-end list -- the headline says it all -- herewith, two dozen filmed performances.

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Shepard Faireyâ„¢: On Street Art And Street Cred

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 09.02.2011

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Shepard Fairey has grown up before the eyes of fans, peers and would be competitors. Undaunted by criticism he gets from both sides of his chosen voca...

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Hey, Jon Stewart... What About Buffalo Tom? A Conversation with Bill Janovitz

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.07.2011

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Here's a Conversation with Bill Janovitz about Buffalo Tom's new alum, Skins.

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Flavor Flav Goes Back To High School?

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flavor Flav, Flavor Flav High School, Flavor Flav School, Flavor Flav Chicken Restaurant, Reality TV, Public Enemy, High School Dropouts, William Drayton, Education News

CLINTON, Iowa — Now he's opened his first chicken restaurant in Iowa, rapper Flavor Flav would like to earn his high school diploma in the state...

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WATCH: Flav's Fried Chicken Gets Its First Commercial

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Reality TV, Flav's Fried Chicken, Jimmy Kimmel, Flavor Flav, Racial Stereotypes, Public Enemy, Flavor Flav Chicken, Flava Flav Chicken, Flavor Flav Chicken Restaurant, Flava Flav Chicken Clinton Iowa, Clinton Iowa, Flava Flav Fried Chicken, Flavor Flav Fried Chicken, Comedy News

We've suspected for a while that Flavor Flav is really an experimental dadaist performance artist using popular culture itself as his canvas, and his ...

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'Los Suns' Get Sports Shows Talking About Arizona Law (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Suns Spurs, Nba, Arizona Immigration, Spurs Suns, Public Enemy, Charles Barkley, Arizona Immigration Law, Los Suns, Nba Playoffs, Eat the Press, Media News

TNT's typically freewheeling playoff coverage had former hoopsters Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Chris Webber discussing the law and the Phoenix community.

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An American in South Africa -- Or, Why Soccer Really Matters

David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.25.2011

We bonded when we went to see Brazil play Cameroon during the '94 World Cup. It was one of the great days of my life. It made me understand something about two worlds that I didn't know anything about.

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Five Hip-Hop Classics That Wouldn't Exist Without P-Funk Guitarist Garry Shider (R.I.P.)

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic, Public Enemy, Dr. Dre, Garry Shider, G-Funk, Entertainment News

Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Garry Shider passed away yesterday from cancer. The 56-year-old musician will be remembered for many things, not the l...

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Working for the Weekend: A Sunday Playlist for Congress

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The O'Jays, Mick Jagger, Steely Dan, Etta James, Neil Young, Nancy Sinatra, The Kinks, Reba McEntire, Counting Crows, The Spice Girls, Dr. Dog, Queen Latifah, The Dictators, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Devo, Congress, Canned Heat, Public Enemy, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Cornell, Nrbq, Ted Nugent, U2, Nelly, Health Care Reform, Kenny Chesney, The Monkees, Spanky & Our Gang, Justin Timberlake, Frank Sinatra, Quiet Riot, Morrissey, Loverboy, Hi-Fi, Entertainment News

Here is a playlist for our elected officials in Washington who were actually working today -- or at least what passes for working in Congress.

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A Prayer

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Aung San Sun Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Chief Joseph, Harvey Milk -- teach us! Revolution aint what it used to be.

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Say It Ain't So Joe: A Playlist for Senator Joseph Lieberman

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cream, Green Day, Public Option, Herbie Hancock, Aetna Insurance, Dhani Harrison, Buddy Guy, Senator Joseph Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, Jakob Dylan, Miranda Lambert, Public Enemy, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News

Here are some tunes meant to encourage the Senator from the fine state of Aetna to change his mind about a public option and actually act independently of his insurance donors.

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Washington Post Forced To Correct Report That Public Enemy Called 9/11 A Joke

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington Post, Public Enemy, 911, September 11th, Corrections, Eat the Press, Media News

ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper offers up, via Twitter, a Washington Post correction that addresses what Tapper terms an example of "un...

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Richard Branson, Concert-Goers On The Importance Of Volunteering

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virgin Airlines, St. Vincent, Virgin-Mobile-Freefest, The Voluntour, Causecast, Richard Branson, Public Enemy, Franz Ferdinand, Virgin America, Impact News

At the end of August, Virgin Mobile presented the FreeFest, a free music festival dedicated to encouraging young people to devote time to public servi...

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Public Enemy 'Brings The Noise' For DC Homeless Youth

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benefit Show, Homeless Youth, Public Enemy, Dc, Benefit Concert, Impact News

Hip hop group Public Enemy has reunited to lend their voices for a great cause. The group plans to promote National Homeless Youth Awareness Month by ...

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WaPo's Public Enemy Correction Inspires Hilarious Twitter Meme [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Corrections, Trending Topics, 911, Washington Post, Public Enemy, Media News, September 11th, Eat the Press, Media News

The Post published an article reporting rap legends Public Enemy referred to 9/11 as "a joke," when in reality they were referring to emergency number 9-1-1. Happily, something is being done about it!

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Michael as Memory

Farai Chideya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memory, Michael Jackson, Kiss the Sky, Farai Chideya, Michael Jackson Death, Off-the-Wall, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Public-Enemy, Grace Jones, Entertainment News

When my girl scout troop had a party I brought Stevie Wonder; my friend brought Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, which was everything you needed to know about uncool, and cool.

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Like Music and Oil. Perfect Together?

Mark Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benefits, Barter, The Roots, Iraq, Public Enemy, Oil, Petroleum, Music, Opec, Charities, Politics News

Bringing artists to engage the peoples of countries that are often in tension with the United States (as are many OPEC nations) can increase international goodwill and ease geopolitical tensions.

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