ou may have missed Public Enemy performing in Montreal this summer, but, let's be frank, Public Enemy haven't made a good record in at least ten years. Seeing them perform these days is a bit anti-climatic, what with the best songs performed from albums that came out over a decade ago and Flavor Flav now living on VH1. But anyone who has followed the trailblazing rap group should know that Chuck D has a lot of interesting stuff to say. Not your usual braindead celebrity rapper (*cough*Kanye West*cough*), D has strong, profound, and well thought out opinions about everything from politics to the hip hop industry. Perhaps spoken-word is a better career path for the guy nowadays. Tonight at the Hall Building Auditorium in Concordia University you can get a taste of what that might be like as the CSU Speaker Series presents An Evening With Chuck D: Race, Rap and Reality. Expect a lot of angry ranting and a lot of nodding students.
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To say Public Enemy hasn't made a record equal to *Fear of a Black Planet* is one thing, since that is easily one of the best records (if not the best) hip hop ever produced.
To say PE hasn't made a "good" record is deeply unfair and entirely inaccurate. The Paris collaboration *Rebirth of a Nation* was excellent, as was *How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul*. PE's generous to a fault, and so delivering an album that typically features 15 songs or more means that it's a guarantee that three or four of them won't be gems, yet one should remember the rest of them that were.
PE has done--and continues to do--far more for and with hip hop than almost anyone else
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ou may have missed Public Enemy performing in Montreal this summer, but, let's be frank, Public Enemy haven't made a good record in at least ten years. Seeing them perform these days is a bit anti-climatic, what with the best songs performed from albums that came out over a decade ago and Flavor Flav now living on VH1. But anyone who has followed the trailblazing rap group should know that Chuck D has a lot of interesting stuff to say. Not your usual braindead celebrity rapper (*cough*Kanye West*cough*), D has strong, profound, and well thought out opinions about everything from politics to the hip hop industry. Perhaps spoken-word is a better career path for the guy nowadays. Tonight at the Hall Building Auditorium in Concordia University you can get a taste of what that might be like as the CSU Speaker Series presents An Evening With Chuck D: Race, Rap and Reality. Expect a lot of angry ranting and a lot of nodding students. 
