• Chuck D Discusses Why Hip-Hop Benefits from and Welcomes Haters

    Chuck D of Public Enemy shared his opinion of haters and the role strict critics play in hip-hop in a recent interview with "Real Hip-Hop."Chuck D's new solo album "The Black in Man," his third solo release, came out in August and the title was inspired by Johnny Cash's identity as "The Man in Black."His earlier two releases are "The Autobiography of Mistachuck" (1996) and 2010's "Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin'." The 2010 release was in a digital-only format, which Chuck D says was ahead of the times by being available online only, in that "it wasn't an understood format" the way it is today.Chuck D spoke in the interview about how Public Enemy's production team, Bomb Squad, was not making music to appeal to the masses or for people's approval."We dared to make records that people would hate. We would twist it until they ended up loving it," he says. "We never really looked to see if anybody would love our s--t. We ain't never make a move for popular things — at least that's the Public Enemy program."Chuck D reflected on the Ice Cube track "The N---a You Love to Hate" that followed in the footsteps of the mantra Public Enemy was creating.

  • Rage Against The Machine Violating Arizona Ethnic Studies School Ban, According To State Superintendent

    Rage Against The Machine are not too popular with Arizona's outgoing superintendant of public education, John Huppenthal. For his last day of work, Huppenthal targeted one school district for what he perceived to be violating the state's ban on ethnic studies according to Rolling Stone. This "notice of noncompliance" sent to district superintendent, Dr. H.T. Sanchez, according to the Arizona Daily Star, highlighted two music-related violations, an Introduction To Hip-hop, written by KRS One in an English class taught from an African-American perspective and the use of Rage Against The Machine's "Take The Power Back" in a Mexican-American history course. As one might expect, Tom Morello was not too pleased with the decision.

  • Lil Wayne Shares New Freestyle Teaser Over iLoveMakonnen's 'Tuesday'

    Leave it to the likes of Lil Wayne to get fans hooked after a 15-second long video.The new video surfaced today and subtly features ILOVEMAKONNEN’s “Tuesday” beat, with Lil Wayne freestyling over it. The song is unreleased at this time and Lil Wayne’s teaser video was the first preview fans have had as of now.

  • Steve Angello Reveals Tentative Release Date For Album 'Wild Youth'

    Steve Angello fans, the boss has some great news for you. Replying to a fan on Twitter, a space where he is quite active and talks to his followers quite often, he stated that his highly anticipated album Wild Youth would be release in April. The former Swedish House Mafia member did not specify when in April, but it is good to know that the album will be arriving soon after a period of indefinite delays after battling with Columbia over the album.
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