Recap: The Roots Picnic

Around this time last year, I was somewhere lurking around the Okayplayer discussion board lamenting over the fact that I missed the first annual Roots Picnic and explaining to my roommate that neither hell nor high water would stop me from going to the next show. And despite my poor luck when it comes to [...]

Photos: The Roots Picnic

So unfortunately, I was not in Philly for The Roots Picnic which took place this past weekend, but my homegirl Vickey (aka Sneakshot) was in the building, and took these dope shots of the show. If you didn’t know, The Roots Picnic was stacked with acts like Santigold, The Black Keys, TV on the Radio, [...]

Video: Public Enemy on It Takes A Nation Of Millions…

Pitchfork produced this amazing video featuring Public Enemy reflecting back on their groundbreaking album It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us back which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The forum features Chuck D, as well as Hank and Keith Shocklee of the Bomb Squad production team. I recently got to talk and [...]

Public Enemy in XXL

photo courtesy Heads of Wool/XXL
My boy Dennis (Heads of Wool) interviewed Public Enemy while we were in Montreal earlier this month and his feature made XXL! Check out the interview at XXL.com and watch Chuck (and Flav, sometimes) share some knowledge about the upcoming election.
Also, check the coverage of Public Enemy’s press conference and performance [...]

Performance: Public Enemy at Montreal Jazz Festival 2008

Public Enemy played It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in order from beginning to end, with commentary in between.
It was like a live version of VH1 Storytellers with Chuck droppin’ such tidbits how Hank Shocklee at the last minute flipped the ordering of the songs of the cassette and played [...]

Press Conference: Public Enemy at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2008

With Flava Flav in the building, we already knew that this would not be just any ordinary press conference.

Say what you want about the man, but the dude is living life to the fullest. I ran into Flav twice in Montreal and he’s keeps it real—he’s the same person that you see on TV, no [...]

Montreal

So yeah, most of y’all know that I love traveling.
After I turned 21 I told myself that I need to get out of the city at least once a year to stay sane. In 2008 I had a tough internal decision: go back to London or pick a new city for debauchery. An associate that [...]