Chuck D - Biography

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Chuck D (real name: Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, born August 1, 1960) is a rapper, composer, actor, author, radio personality and producer. Chuck was born in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA. He helped further 1980s political rap music as the controversial and influential lead rapper of Public Enemy. After graduating from Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, Chuck went to Adelphi University in Long Island, New York. During his rap career, he helped give voice to the black consciousness. Ridenhour also contributed (as Chuck D) to several episodes of the PBS documentary series The Blues. In 1996 he released Autobiography Of Mistachuck on Mercury Records. In September, 1999, he launched a multi-format "supersite" on the Web, Rapstation.com. A home for the vast global Hip Hop community, the site boasts a TV and radio station with original programming, a slew of Hip Hop's most prominent DJs, celebrity interviews, free MP3 downloads (the first was contributed by multi-platinum rapper Coolio), social commentary, current events, and regular features dedicated to empowering rap artists with the knowledge to turn their craft into a viable living. Since 2000, he has been one of the most vocal supporters of Internet music file sharing in the music industry. Chuck has been increasingly involved politically. He co-hosted Unfiltered on Air America Radio, he has testified before Congress about P2P, and was involved in a 2004 rap political convention. He continues to be an activist, publisher, lecturer, and producer. He is the co-writer of the essay book Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality, along with Yusuf Jah (ISBN 0385318685) and film director Spike Lee. He loaned his voice to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as DJ Forth Right MC for the radio station Playback FM. On June 5, 2005, Chuck D returned to Air America Radio with a new show, On The Real. In anger at the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina disaster, Public Enemy came back with the song 'Hell No We Ain't All Right!' and a new album New Whirl Odor. with Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush The Show (1987) It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) Fight the Power...Live! (video and album, 1989) Fear of a Black Planet (1990) Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) Greatest Misses 1986-1992 (1992) Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994) He Got Game (1998) BTN 2000 (online released mega-mix which initialized PE's leaving Def Jam records) (1999) There's A Poison Goin On (1999) Revolverlution (2002) There's A Poison Goin On (worldwide re-release via Slamjamz.com) (2004) New Whirl Odor (2005) In addition, before the 2004 Presidential Election, Public Enemy released the highly anti-Bush EP SON OF A BUSH that contained the songs "Son of a Bush", "Get Your Shit Together" and the song featuring Fine Arts Mililia (featuring Chuck D) entitled "Twisted Sense of God". He also brought out a very soulful 1996 solo record, The Autobiography of Mistachuck (on Mercury Records) and founded the record company Slam Jamz. with Fine Arts Militia: Fine Arts Militia (2003)