Chuck D - Hip-Hop at 30?

Chuck D and his long-time musical collaborator Flavor Flav

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Chuck D is the voice of Public Enemy, the controversial and hugely successful hip-hop act whose music fused the energy of rap with politics and biting social commentary.

Thirty years on from the birth of hip hop, Public Enemy continue to tour and release music with the same ferocious call for action.

Hip hop has now turned into a multi-billion dollar industry, so does he believe that its message of social change has been lost?

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