Chuck D is sonning Rosenberg and Ebro

[W.I.Z.E.]

"Fight The Power" got heavy rotation on MTV. So did "Mama Said Knock You Out"...."Check Yourself" by Cube...."Method Man". During the day, prime time MTV. No, they didn't only play the "pop" hits off those albums. Well they did, obviously, but not exclusively. You would see everything from 3rd Bass to Supercat during those "blocks", neither of which had much mainstream appeal.

People seem to forget that the "Drakes" and "Lil Waynes" of the early mid 90's are people like Wu-Tang and LL and Cube. They were the mainstream acts back then.

completely agree with this.

Since the early 90's the term, crossover, and sellout started to creep into the culture. Coincidentally, that's when "the underground" was formed. At that point, artists that had a pop feel sold more and got play on tv. But urban stations were NOT bumping Vanilla Ice and Young MC.

The last few days I've listened to the radio just to see what they play. I shyt you not, 90% of the time they play one of these songs.

1.) Oh Na Na
2.) Loyal
3.) Up Down
4.) Bey and Jay (pick a damn song)
5.) The Worst

When I listen to hip hop stations on Satellite radio and internationally, their playlist is VASTLY different for the same genre. They actually play a variety of songs. You would think that no one else put out an album this year. Chuck's platform is, at least have more balance in markets like NY, LA, etc. And don't play, literally the same five songs over and over and over again.

Finally, when you look at the content of these songs, and you realized that it programs our young children to value money, drugs and misogyny over knowledge of self, integrity and hard work, you can understand why our youth walks around lost.

 

[Insensitive]

lol @ the conspiracy theories.

I do agree with the general sentiment that radio
is pretty much shyt at this point and it's mainly
because a lot of power is concentrated in one place
so they can choose who and what gets played at their own
leisure.
I do think the internet has a done a great deal to combat
this and several artists that are hot right now wouldn't
be otherwise.

 

[prophecypro]

I know for a fact Chuck far from broke lol. Even Harder Than You Think was like the paralympics songs lmao, they must be eating off that along with a lot of other shyt.

Use in media[edit]
The song was featured in Eric Koston's segment in the 2007 skateboarding video "Fully Flared". The song and its beat were used by ESPN for the 2011 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament. The song is also featured on the soundtrack of the video game Skate 2. The song was later featured heavily in a Fall K-Mart ad as of September 2011. It is also one of the lead songs in the commercials for ESPN's broadcasting of the Winter X Games. The song featured prominently towards the end of the BBC Four 2011 documentary "Public Enemy: Prophets Of Rage" which was screened as the fourth episode of the channel's "Black Music Legends Of The 1980s" series. It also appeared in the trailer for the 2012 film Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap and was also the only track to feature on its soundtrack album which did not appear in the actual film. The song is also featured at the opening of the 2012 film End of Watch.
The song featured in the New Year's Day 2013 celebrations in London.
The song features in the opening sequence of the danish TV show Monte Carlo elsker USA (Monte Carlo loves USA) (2014).
The song has appeared on MLB Network in promos through the course of the 2014 pre- and regular MLB season.
2012 Summer Paralympics[edit]
In the United Kingdom, it was used as the soundtrack in both the 90 second long trailer for,[5][6] and as the theme tune to Channel 4's coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[7] The song subsequently experienced a surge in sales, peaking at number 4 - becoming Public Enemy's first Top 10 single in the UK and their highest-charting single ever in the nation. A review for The Independent said of its re-release in the UK: "Following its prominent use in Channel 4's Paralympics coverage, great lost 2007 single 'Harder Than You Think' had a sales surge that carried it into the UK Top Five, giving the band their biggest hit to date. It'd be a thrilling piece of work in any era, Chuck delivering a typically apocalyptic call to arms over a backing track which uses a horn sample from Shirley Bassey's 'Jezahel', but to hear it blasting from the radio in the second decade of this century is beyond beautiful."[8] The song also serves as the theme tune to the British TV show The Last Leg, which was originally a show that ran alongside the 2012 Paralympics, but later spun off as an independent show.
The song was also used as the theme tune to Channel 4's coverage of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

That song fukked around and ended up charting in the top 5 of the UK Ntational music charts in 2012...5 years after it released.

Then again in the UK, we show nothing but love to Hip Hop of all generations and all regions and get dimissed as Euro-CaCs

 

[muzikfrk75]

First PE record I heard was Rebel Without A Pause....and it was on an AM station

 

[Harry B]

"Fight The Power" got heavy rotation on MTV. So did "Mama Said Knock You Out"...."Check Yourself" by Cube...."Method Man". During the day, prime time MTV. No, they didn't only play the "pop" hits off those albums. Well they did, obviously, but not exclusively. You would see everything from 3rd Bass to Supercat during those "blocks".

People seem to forget that the "Drakes" and "Lil Waynes" of the early mid 90's are people like Wu-Tang and LL and Cube. They were the mainstream acts back then.

Your local radio....I dunno anything about that...but MTV? I have no idea what you're talking about honestly, when it comes to MTV.

Fred.

I find it interesting that MTV who were reluctant to even play black artists in the early 80s were playing songs like Fight The Power on pop TV.
I read an interview with Flava Flav which said they only had 1 hit song, which wasn't even top 10 on the R&B (aka hot black) hits, I think it was Can't truss it.

Wu-tang was during my mtv times and they were definitely not played, I might've seen All i need but that was it.
This was the time when I had my cousins out in the Bay who only saw Wu-tang on Yo!

And people are not forgetting anything, cause Drakes and Lil Waynes are not Wu-tang, LL and Cube.
They are the Michael Jackson, Whitey Houston's of the early 90s since they are selling more records than most and having more hits than anyone.
Wu-tang and Cube moved a million units, between 90-95 we had about 25-30 albums that sold 10-20 million records. Wu-tang and Cube moved a million units, between 90-95 we had about 25-30 albums that sold 10-20 million records. We need to put that in relation, early 90s hiphop was really insignificant.

If we look at the most played hiphop songs at any given time we would see that, none of those songs were high on the rnb lists and specially not on the hot100 list. Rarely to never top 10 until (minus very few cats perhaps 1 per year) until Bad Boy, that was also during the time when they gave YO! more hours, prime time and also when the era of hits with R&B hooks started popping and cats not from the west coast were making serious money and buying sports cars, hiphop certain urban radiostations grew really huge, the Jews started throwing serious dough and everything turned profit maximizing.

Before that Hiphop was basically indie, like indie rock today. You had a few cats moving some units, once in a while you might get a hit song from someone like LL, Beastie Boys or Salt-n-pepa but the real like KRS, Kane, Rakim, DOC, NWA were no where to be found on that map.

 

[The Ruler 09]

That song fukked around and ended up charting in the top 5 of the UK Ntational music charts in 2012...5 years after it released.

Then again in the UK, we show nothing but love to Hip Hop of all generations and all regions and get dimissed as Euro-CaCs

Anyone who says any Euro Cac shyt is fukking stupid. There's numerous different races in England. Many of the Hip Hop legends such as RZA and so many others have praised people from U.K for how Hip Hop they are, artists and fans. Saying that dumb shyt is like saying Vanilla Ice represents all Americans, it's just ignorant. An artist like Lowkey does his thing and worked with Dead Prez, Immortal Technique and people like that, Yung Gun with Guru, Skinnyman with KRS and could go on and on. Hip Hop is worldwide, on topic that's one of Chuck D's biggest things, how he reps worldwide Hip Hop. He is the truth, as is KRS. All the real respect everyone, what Ra said was true, ain't where your from but where your at. All that extra shyt is from dumb people trying to put themselves on a pedestal cause they came out of a p*ssy on a different bit of land lol. So fukk all that bullshyt man, there's Hip Hop in U.K, Africa, Asia, Europe in general, Australia, everywhere, that's one of the beauties of the culture.

 

[Wacky D]

I find it interesting that MTV who were reluctant to even play black artists in the early 80s were playing songs like Fight The Power on pop TV.
I read an interview with Flava Flav which said they only had 1 hit song, which wasn't even top 10 on the R&B (aka hot black) hits, I think it was Can't truss it.

Wu-tang was during my mtv times and they were definitely not played, I might've seen All i need but that was it.
This was the time when I had my cousins out in the Bay who only saw Wu-tang on Yo!

And people are not forgetting anything, cause Drakes and Lil Waynes are not Wu-tang, LL and Cube.
They are the Michael Jackson, Whitey Houston's of the early 90s since they are selling more records than most and having more hits than anyone.
Wu-tang and Cube moved a million units, between 90-95 we had about 25-30 albums that sold 10-20 million records.

lol @ wutang not being played on mtv outside of Yo!

 

[x2y]

I didn't see it mentioned but Chuck host a hip hop radio program on Friday Nights I believe. Mostly indy acts from NYC and beyond and is always looking to help out others on the come up. He has always done his share to to help the culture unlike Ebro and Rosenberg aren't they now on reality TV acting a fool and they can miss me with all these bring NYC back BS they are perpetrating.

 

[Newark88]

I didn't see it mentioned but Chuck host a hip hop radio program on Friday Nights I believe. Mostly indy acts from NYC and beyond and is always looking to help out others on the come up. He has always done his share to to help the culture on like Ebro and Rosenberg aren't they now on reality TV acting a fool and they can miss me with all these bring NYC back BS they are perpetrating.

Chuck D's show is on WBAI (99.5 FM) BAI is listener supported (through fundraising drives) so it's not owned by a corporate entity

 

[Abstract83]

Who gives a fukk about money. Nyggas in here trolling the thread. I haven't listened to the radio in forever. I got podcast abd my own albums/playlist plus spotify. I think Chuck is more concerned with what agenda radio pushes to the youth. It's nothing but untalented ratchet as nikkas on there. Along with untalented thugged out r&b singers on there too. And this is the standard that ur average talented mc has to compete with. I'm not saying all independent artists are better. I'm saying a good 80% of them make more intellectual creative music without compromising themselves. It should be a balance but I'm just beating a dead horse.

 

[Jone2three45]

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[Jone2three45]

Chuck can talk shyt because he's put in the work and putting the money where his mouth is. Keep in mind the same folks who are always shyttin on black men taking a stance are always caping for the Beibers and Donald Sterlngs of the world. How can any black man NOT applaud what Chuck doing?

 

[Jone2three45]

wow @ all the people that dont get the point and think chuck is some old bitter rapper.

also, people who under-estimate the power of radio and think that radio is dying out anytime soon, yall need to get out more. lol.

 

[TheJet]

Why are dudes still hung up on radio in 2014?

The only reason Clear Channel runs shyt is cause its not free to do. It costs money and once you got advertisers, you gotta maximize returns.

Move to the internet and keep it moving.

maybe its because its all inner city kids know.it shapes their taste in music, fashion, vocabulary etc. maybe he wants them to hear different shyt besides ratchet, turn up, molly, p*ssy, money weed...

 

[Flay Mayweather]

dudes been going hard in the paint for the WOAT banner..

Nah @nineteeneightysix got that on lock