Chuck D is the leader and co-founder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, a social activist, multimedia producer, visual artist, and digital music pioneer. He has been featured in more than one hundred documentaries on music, technology, politics, and race, and cocurated the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. He has also been a national spokesperson for Rock the Vote, the National Urban League, Americans for the Arts, and the National Alliance of African American Athletes. As part of Public Enemy, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of StewDio and Summer of Hamn. RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age is his latest work.
The tragedy of gun violence is depicted in annotated illustrations that illuminate a society gone hamn; from legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) This book is the follow-up to STEWdio the debut trilogy on Chuck D’s Enemy Books imprint, in which he invented a new medium—the “naphic grovel”—a bound journal brimming with his observations and reflections of current events in both art and prose. Summer of Hamn is the second release on the imprint. … Read More
Chuck D, Akashic Books, and BOOK.io are excited to offer the first eBook and Physical book bundle. With this full eBook, you will also be purchasing a physical box set of STEWdio. Of the physical books, 30 percent will feature Chuck D’s authentic signature. Readers will find out if they are the lucky recipients of these distinctive box sets when they acquire the digital book. How it Works: 1. Mint this DEA eBook. If you received an eBook numbered between 000 – 179, you got a 1:1 digital cove… Read More
