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Article: RAPPING WITH CHUCK Public Enemy's leader talks about rap - and that doesn't mean Vanilla Ice
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 19, 1991
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Chuck D. was not in the best of moods. Waking up at 5 a.m. to
prepare for a flurry of phone interviews was not his idea of a good
time. As journalists took their turns raving about Public Enemy as a
cultural and commercial phenomenon -- thrilling Chuck with the same
questions he's heard millions of times before -- the rapper's fuse
grew progressively shorter. Even as the Q & A sessions neared their
end, his outlook had not improved.
"OK, who is this now?," he whined into the receiver. "I'm tired
of talking."
This attitude, although it did not bode well for the efficient
gathering of information, was understandable. Chuck D., despite his
celebrated status as a prophet for the masses, is just ...