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Has it really been 20 years since Public Enemy was the most incendiary and relevant thing in pop music? Damn you, old age. But you can relive the glory days, kind of, with the documentary Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome. It shows tonight at 7:15 at the Angelika, and Chuck D is slated for a red carpet walk earlier in the evening at North Park. Chuck will also rock Ghost Bar after the movie with PE's prime provocateur, Professor Griff, and DJ Lord. (Where's Terminator X at?). As for the film, I wanted a little more. The interviews are candid enough, but I wanted to be picked and put back down in the late '80s/early '90s Fear of a Black Planet days. The live footage is mostly from the last few years, well after PE's heyday, and the editing is pretty pedestrian. Still, this is PE, and I'll be raising my fist tonight in the presence of the great Chuck. Too black. Too strong. |
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Posted by stephen becker @ 2:45 PM Tue, Apr 01, 2008
When I heard that Chuck D was going to be walking the red carpet tonight, I immediately thought of a bunch of interesting things to ask him. Such as: When he put out Fear of a Black Planet, could he have imagined that in 20 years there would be a very good chance that our next president would be black? And who among today's hip-hop crowd does he think puts out the same type of socially charged music that PE did back in their day. And then it kinda hit me - for a group that hasn't put out at hit in years, they're still pretty darn relevant. Now if only the S1W would show up tonight...