I got a letter from Chuck D. the other day… I open and read it. He called me a sucker!
It seems that I have upset the hip-hop gods. In my last Really Really Good post, I mentioned the Public Enemy show at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles. My goal was to simply announce the show, as I had planned on attending. I may have said something that came off as inaccurate. Imagine my surprise when I opened an response email from Mister Chuck D himself! He did not sound to happy with me.
In my original post I stated the following..
“Sure I know what you're about to say. You’ve seen the shambles of what used to be the mighty Public Enemy on stage. You miss the good old days, when the Prophets of Rage brought the noise to the stage, like no other. But since the original members all drifted away, the spirit of P.E. seemed to fade. Well this show should resuscitate the old fury, as the only member who seems to be missing from the bill is Terminator X.”
The Prophet of Rage’s response was as follows:
Hey Laron Cue, misinformation is a terrible thing... all the original members drifted away where? I started publicenemy.com in 1998 , the first of a rap kind. [The website] would be so no info would be lost in hype. We just completed our 56th tour, Flav only missed LA in 2002 because he was locked fulla traffic violations and we were contracted. I guess this is the problem with blogs, they're illegitimate news sources that spread. Today's my web day and I check spread misinfos like these... lets get it right... TX and 2 S1WS Brother James Norman and Roger Chillious are the only ones that retired... Chuck D
Article comments
1 - Glen Boyd
Welcome to the club. Ive gotten those unexpected communications from Chuck D too (they were called phone calls back then). When I reviewed "It Takes A Nation of Millions" for SPIN way back in the day, Chuck called to let me know he liked the review. I even got my name checked in the liner notes for "Fear Of A Black Planet" but this was for being a rap DJ (I was known back then as "Shockmaster" Glen Boyd).
Chuck Pays attention. Believe Dat!
-Glen