ENEMY RADIO

Leader and co-founder of legendary group Public Enemy, member of its auxiliary unit Enemy Radio and part of the supergroup Prophets of Rage, Chuck D is a social activist, author and digital music pioneer.  He first rose to acclaim in the 1980’s with a string of critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums that addressed weighty issues about race, rage and inequality with a jolting combination of intelligence and eloquence never seen before.  

The New York Times has named Public Enemy’s music to their list of the “25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century” and in 2005 The Library of Congress included Fear of a Black Planetin a list of 50 recordings worthy of preserving that year in their National Recording Registry.  In 2013, Public Enemy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  In 2015, Public Enemy’s “Say It Like It Really Is” provided the powerful backbeat to the trailer for the critically-acclaimed film, Selma, and “Harder Than You Think” was selected for NBC’s official Super Bowl XLIX commercial after being the cornerstone of the 2012 Paralympics campaign (which drove the song into the UK Top 5).  When the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC began curating its archive, the group was asked to donate iconic items from their history.  And in 2020, Public Enemy received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the GRAMMYs.

Chuck D is also a visual artist whose work has been shown in galleries nationwide, a best-selling author (including 2017’s 300-page “This Day In Rap and Hip Hop History”), a highly-sought after speaker on the college lecture circuit, has been a prominent member of music industry non-profit organizations MusicCares and Rock The Vote (which honored him with the Patrick Lippert Award in 1996 for his contributions to community service), runs his own record label, SpitSlam, and launched the websites Rapstation.com, HipHopGods.com and SheMovement.com.  He has served as national spokesperson for Rock The Vote, the National Urban League and the National Alliance of African American Athletes.  In 2018, Chuck was named the Chairman of the Celebrity Board for the forthcoming Universal Hip Hop Museum in New York.  

In June 2016, Chuck debuted Prophets of Rage, a new “supergroup” with former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, Cypress Hill’s B-Real and DJ Lord of Public Enemy. 

In 2019, he formed Enemy Radio, touring throughout Europe with Wu-Tang and De La Soul.