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Public Enemy are one of the greatest hip-hop acts of all time. Exploding out of Long Island, New York in the early 1980s, their firebrand lyrical assault, the Bomb Squad's innovative production techniques, and their unmistakeable live performances gave them a formidable reputation. They terrified the establishment, and have continued to blaze a trail over a twenty year period up until the present day. Today, they are more autonomous and as determined as ever, still touring and finding more ingenious ways of distributing their music. Russell Myrie has had unprecedented access to the group, conducting extensive interviews with Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff, the Shocklee brothers, and many others who form part of their legacy. He tells the stories behind the making of seminal albums such as their debut Yo! Bum Rush the Show, the breakthrough It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, and multi-million selling Fear of a Black Planet. He tackles Professor Griff's alleged anti-semitic remarks which caused massive controversy in the late eighties, the complexities of the group's relationship with the Nation of Islam, their huge crossover appeal with the alternative audience in the early nineties, and the strange circumstances of Flavor Flav's re-emergence as a Reality TV Star since the turn of the millennium.
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Music, Nonfiction, Rap musicians, Public Enemy (Musical group), Biography, New york (n.y.), biographyPlaces
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Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorized Story of Public Enemy
2010, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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0802129943 9780802129949
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Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin'
2009, Canongate Books
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1847676111 9781847676115
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Don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin': the authorized story of Public Enemy
2008, Canongate Books
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1847671829 9781847671820
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Don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin': the authorized story of Public Enemy
2008, Canongate Books
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Don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin': the authorised story of Public Enemy
2008, Canongate
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