Hip-hop group Public Enemy announced on Sunday that after 35 years of service, they would be permanently “moving forward” without rapper Flavor Flav following his decision to send a cease-and-desist letter to presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over fellow rapper Chuck D’s concert at a Sanders campaign’s rally in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Rapper Flavor Flav sent a cease and desist letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), accusing the senator of using his likeness to mislead voters, and misusing Public Enemy’s music as “the soundtrack of a fake revolution.”
Bernie Sanders’s “Fight the Power” rally with Public Enemy was a sign that he intends to run as the unabashed leader of a “political revolution.”
LOS ANGELES, California — The crosshairs logo of the celebrated rap group Public Enemy was worn by several fans of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a large rally Sunday evening ahead of Super Tuesday — though Sanders once attacked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for using crosshairs in an advertisement targeting congressional districts.
When asked if he had anything to say to people in Las Vegas, Public Enemy’s Chuck D said “the NRA is a terrorist organization.”
A new political music video released Wednesday from rap-rock supergroup Prophets of Rage depicts President Donald Trump as Adolf Hitler and shows African-American men hanging from gallows in front of the White House.
Rapper and social justice activist Chuck D believes Donald Trump is uninformed on the subject of race relations in America and sounds “stupid” when he talks about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Members of the rap group Public Enemy are displeased with the Oscar’s use of their 1989 song “Fight the Power” during Sunday’s ceremony.
Public Enemy’s Chuck D chided rapper Nelly this week for canceling tour dates in the UK over terrorism fears — because, he says, police in Ferguson, Missouri, near Nelly’s hometown of St. Louis are just as scary as ISIS.
Chuck D, a member of famed hip-hop group Public Enemy, blasted critics of Bill Cosby in a Twitter rant on Sunday, calling attempts to wipe out the comedian’s legacy “akin to Nazi book burning.”
