Chuck D (Public Enemy) Is A Man Of The People! He's Down With ABB!

[DUreader]

I just got to talk with him for a good bit of time. He just finished speaking at a MLK celebration/memorial.

His speach was chock full of the political. Talked about the lies of

tv and radio, stressed reading and sharing knowledge.

He Dissed Bush* Plenty and Questioned the War and "Weapons of Mass Dissapearance"

Said the legacy of Dr. King has been glossed over and 'pacified' and

reduced to 'the dream' only, ignoring that King was a revolutionary.


OK most of us know all this because we already read and share knowledge.


He had no body guards or entourage and just came down off the stage, after speaking for about an hour, and signed peoples albums, cds etc.

He talked to everyone who wanted to talk to him.

In my short chat with him I thanked him for keeping it political

and we laughed about how people often look at you like you are crazy

when you talk about this kind of stuff.

We commiserated over the lack of political music on the radio and

talked about taking some time away from the US after we cast our votes

next fall. He's into Eastern Europe due to the vitality of the people he's met there.



That is my brief MLK memorial report and I feel a little more inspired tonight than this morning

DUreader

[Nlighten1]

1. Lucky you.

I would love to meet him. In about a month I have a chance to meet one of Ghandi's grandsons. He is giving a speach in Michigan and afterwards certain ticket holders get to meet him.

[mkultra]

2. how bout

how bout writing a nice story about it for slantleft? send me an email if interested. [e-mail]

[DUreader]

4. Well, you can see that my writing is not really up to par

Also I took no notes so I couldn't claim to accurately quote him.

Thanks for the offer.

You should Email him directly, I bet he would give you an interview.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. Lucky You-I've always liked Chuck D a lot-very outspoken guy

and I loved Public Enemy...

[DUreader]

5. It was cool, he really put me at ease

[Minstrel Boy]

6. "Son of a Bush"

is one mighty song.

Lucky you, and yay Chuck!


oh no
struck by greased lightning
F'd by the same last name, you know what?
China ain't never givin back that godddamn plane
must got this ol nation trained
on some kennel ration
refrain
the same train
fulla cocaine
froze the brain
have you forgotten
i been thru the first term of rotten
the father, the son
and the holy Bush-it we all in
dont look at me
i aint callin for no assassination
i'm just sayin', who voted for this asshole of the nation?

deja Bush
crushed by the head rush
15 years back
when i wrote the first bum rush
saw you salute
to the then
vice prez
who did what Raygun said
and then became prez
himself went for delf
knee deep in his damn self
stuck in a 3 headed bucket
of trilateral Bush-it
sorry ain't no better way of puttin it
no you cannot freestyle this
cause yo ass still ain't free
if fight for yall
and they get me
how many of yall is comin to get me?
none
cause its easier to forget me

ain't that a Bush
son of a Bush is here
all up in your zone
you aint never heard so much soul to the bone
i told y'all when the first Bush was tappin my phone
spy vs spy
can't truss em
as you salute to the Illuminati
take your ass to your 1 millionth party
now here's the pitch
high and inside
certified genocide
ain't that a Bush repeat ain't that a Bush
out of nowhere
headed to the hothouse?
killed 135 at the last count...Texas bounce
cats in the cage
got a ghost of a chance
of comin back
from your whack ass killin machine

he's the son of a bad man
the son of a bad man

son of a Bush ain't that a son of a Bush
cats doin bids
for doin the same Bush shit that you did
serial killer kid uh serial killer kid
Coke its the real thing
used to make you swing
used to be your thing
daddy had you under his wing
bringin kilos to fill up silos
you probably sniffed piles
got inmates in Texas scrubbin tiles
that shit is wild
CIA child
that shit is wild
CIA child

[DUreader]

7. Yeah! He used that line a few times tonight

big fun

[LTR]

8. Great lyrics!

Public Enemy: Best...rap group...ever!

I'm off to find it on Kazaa! I gotta hear it NOW!

[Minstrel Boy]

9. You can hear it stream here:

It's on the Peace Not War double cd:

http://www.peace-not-war.org/Music/PublicEnemy/index.html

[DUreader]

10. Cool, thanks

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

11. I saw his new band at the moveon party

He's got the guitar player from Living Color, and the did old PE songs live with a jazz-ish sort of feel, very interesting, sort of a cross between PE and Bootsy Collins - but the reverse of the way PE was.

[underpants]

12. Very eloquent, good businessman, and his voice brings weight

He seems like a guy anyone could sit down with and talk over a cup of the beverage of your choice.

[terryg11]

13. SOaB!!

verry lucky indeed! This man is way smart, would love to see him talk.

[jonnyblitz]

14. If King were alive today he would be marginalized as a fringe

leftist, perhaps by many here at DU even. You know he would be criticizing many of the DEMs in congress and that doesn't sit well with the party loyalists. :shrugs:

[Aristus]

15. I love his politics, but,

he should exhort his listeners to do a couple of daring, dangerous, radical, revolutionary things: register to vote, and then VOTE. There is nothing more dangerous to The Man and his lily-white way of life. Vote...and vote every time!

Does Chuck D do this?

If not, then he should.

[DUreader]

16. Yes he did