News about Chuck D

Public Enemy have cancelled their entire Australian tour just days out from their first show in Melbourne on Saturday, October 5.  Australian promoter TEG Dainty released a statement on behalf of Chuck D and Flavor Flav on Monday explaining the cancellation was due to a medical emergency. Frontman Chuck D, 64, will require 'immediate eye surgery', preventing the American rapper and the group's co-founder Flavor Flav, 65, from going ahead with the tour.

US rap icons Public Enemy have cancelled half of their Australian tour just five weeks before it was scheduled to begin. The Fight The Power hitmakers were due to start their first Down Under tour in Perth on October 2 before performing in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane. Now, due to 'unforeseen scheduling issues', promoter TEG Live has axed the Perth, Adelaide, and Newcastle dates.

Australian breakdancer Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn has been lashed by African American commentators who claim she does not understand the history or culture of the sport

Rapper Chino XL has died at the age of 50, AllHipHop reported Monday, citing an inside source. The East Coast-based musical artist, whose real name was Derek Emmanuel Barbosa, was remembered by a number of colleagues and fans as news of his passing circulated on Monday evening.

Flavor Flav is counting down the days until his new single comes out. The 64-year-old rapper, who went viral after performing the national anthem at a basketball game, has been promoting Everywhere Man, which is expected to be released on January 10. Chuck D. 63, the artist's latest album, and he tries to banish any rumors of a rift between the two bands.

Chuck D and Flavor Flav, both from Public Enemy, have been back to the stage together for more than five years. The hip-hop legends reunited as the openers for the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday. On Saturday, the pair erupted out of the gate with a bangin' version of Harder Than You Think, which was just the first of a string of their classics on the setlist. Some of the other more well-known songs included State of the Union (STFU), Bring The Noise, Welcome To The Terrordome, Rebel Without A Pause, and the ever-hitting Fight The Power. The He Got game stars also released Everywhere Man, a surprise for some fans, just days before the show was closer.

The 50th anniversary of hip-hop, which appeared in The Bronx in 1973, will be celebrated in August 2023. It's never too early to get that particular group up, and the Recording Academy wasted no time at all. The stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles was redesigned on Sunday night (February 5), the venue where hip-hop was born, with help from some of the genre's top performers of the past half-century. Hip-hop has kicked back decades, hundreds of musicians, from early architects like DJ Grandmaster Flash to later commercial behemoths like Busta Rhymes, and Missy Elliott. It was amazing.

On Tuesday, Ice-T was on cloud nine as he announced that he would be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After being announced in a tweet by Variety, the legendary rapper-turned-actor said it was a trip to be honoured. Tracy Marrow, the 64-year-old Law & Order actor, joked that getting the actor was almost impossible after he had run-ins with the statute years before.