This past weekend saw Philadelphia being rocked by some of music’s most beloved artists at the Made In America Festival. One of the highlights was…
I don’t know why… but when I hear the beginning of this song… I lose it. The scratching in this song makes you appreciate the DJ and all the hard work they put in. And, this song sends me immediately to the dance floor. Check out PE’s “Terminator X The Edge of Panic”!
Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav is facing a 180-day jail sentence for allegedly failing to pay more than $111,186 in support payments to the mother of three of his seven children, according to the New York Daily News. After Flav, born William Jonathan Drayton Jr., didn’t show up for a hearing last week, a N.Y. […]
I still had to post my old school video of the week for today! Seeing that justice has still not been served for Trayvon Martin, I had to give you all this PE classic, “Fight the Power”. We gotta fight the powers that be!
There’s drama in Flavor Flav household. Cops were called to the Las Vegas home of Rapper/Reality TV Star Flavor Flav early Sunday morning after a family dispute turned violent — and when cops sorted it out, one of his daughters was arrested. Law enforcement sources say that Flav’s 19-year-old daughter Dazayna got into an argument […]
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D (born Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) filed a class-action lawsuit against Universal Music Group in U.S. District Court in Northern California on Tuesday, alleging that the music giant has short-changed its artists and producers in licensing deals for digital downloads and ringtones. Universal is being asked to pay the piper when it […]
ABC has given “Celebrity Wife Swap” the green light, so producers are filling out its cast. Among the “Wife Swap” contenders are none other than aging music stars ‘Public Enemy’ Rapper Flavor Flav and ‘Twisted Sister’ Lead Singer Dee Snider. The two will reportedly swap spouses in an as-yet-unscheduled episode of the series. Snider and […]
William Jonathan Drayton, AKA Flavor Flav, has experienced a lot in his 52 years. He was a founding member of the groundbreaking ’80s rap group Public Enemy, where his in your face style and phrases put him on the map as the ultimate “hype man.” Although he’s been branded a “clown” by some critics, it […]
While many TV audiences know William Drayton, aka Flavor Flav, as a colorful (and sometimes polarizing) figure on his reality TV shows, the multi-talent came to prominence for many as a member of the rap group Public Enemy. Public Enemy’s messages of Black power and social consciousness run contrary to some of the images we’ve […]
Music videos weren’t exactly a new phenomenon when MTV debuted in 1981. French musicians had been making short films to accompany their songs since the invention of the Scopitone visual jukebox in the late 1950s. However, MTV’s launch upped not only the quantity of music videos being produced, but the quality. We racked our brains […]
