Article: DJ Chad Rapp; How About Some Hardcore

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN Chad Rapp's car. It's the gold '99 Chrysler Concorde postaged with a Public Enemy sticker alongside a "Jello Biafra for President" sticker. The stickers symbolize two sides of the same hardcore record -- with one side hip-agitprop-hop and the other punk-agitprop -- or the two halves of Rapp's brain.

This revolutionary, metal, movement-minded music has been the lingua franca for New Ken native Rapp and the many rebel outfits he came up with. Take an exchange he had recently at the Little Guido's pizza shop he manages in Mount Washington. It came when the Bubba Sparxx-ish Rapp was approached by some "big black dude with big braids and thuggish, gangsta tattoos on his neck."

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