In this clip, Chuck D speaks about The Bomb Squad working on Ice Cube’s debut solo album, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, which he admits he was apprehensive to do at first. (interviewer laughs) I mean, I knew they probably scared white America, but to us, we was, like, we were grown men. Ice Cube then spent time with Chuck D fleshing out what he wanted on the album in notebooks and Hank Shocklee of The Bomb Squad stressed that they wanted to make a concise body of work for him as opposed to a few tracks here and there. Part 8: Chuck D on Flav Saying He Wrote 'Night of the Living Baseheads' About Him Part 1: Vlad Calls Chuck D "The Greatest Socially Conscious Rapper of All Time"-----In this clip, Chuck D speaks about The Bomb Squad working on Ice Cube's debut solo album, Amerikkka's Most Wanted, which he admits he was apprehensive to do at first. ICE CUBE
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Tales From The Darkside"(feat. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Hip Hop needs to really seriously grow up and govern its own thing for a minute, but you can’t wish for it. Now, it’s individuals, and people point to individuals. He pointed out that there weren't collaborations being done at the time, but he made sure it happened for that particular track. I mean, and true to the art form and the people it comes from, just because you have a black face up in there, but you’re doing the same dumb ass shit doesn’t make it better, so we need black people who are accountable into the running of Hip Hop and curating it as well as everybody else, ’cause, I mean, culture is supposed to be spread to everybody, and it’s supposed to be shared, but once you start looking at it as being, oh, this is dominated by people, because people ain’t into that, you know?But at the end of the day, then people is making decisions, happen to say, wow, okay. (interviewer laughs) Twenty–yeah, twenty-six years.Nick Huff Barili: I read that the first two copies, you gave to Dr. Dre and Easy E. Is that right?CHUCK D: Well, they were copies I had, and we’d play in Vegas together, and they were back there.
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. I mean, matter of fact, I befriended Ice Cube, so when the whole thing happened with Cube and NWA, I tried to tell Cube just stay with the group, man. The group is the thing, but he said it was impossible for him to do so. Or the, you know, they might get all the exposure. Nick Huff Barili of Hard Knock TV, in collaboration with www.GRAMMY.com sits down with the legendary Chuck D for in-depth interview. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I’m, like, man, boom.
Uh, because after Straight out of Compton, you know, came America’s Most Wanted in 1990, along with Fear of a Black Planet and the bread seeds were already laid when Cube was coming to visit us, and me and Kane had been talking for the longest period of time about collaborating with a song, and I said, well, this is the title, Burn, Hollywood, Burn, and Cube happened to be there at the same time when Kane came to the studio in Green Street Studios, and Cube was sitting there and me and Kane was talking, and Cube, you know, we was working out the beginnings of his America’s Most Wanted, but he said, yo, I want to be down on that shit.So we looked–me and Kane looked at him, like, yeah, well, fuck it, why not? You’re teaching history and the legacy of a people, too. It’s easy to cut a deal with one person and just deal with the lawyer.So it’s still a team, but it was a team of others, not the team of makers and creators, and so that, over a long period of time, had sort of, like, been the evolution or the devolution of Hip Hop as far as being the master of its own sphere, you know? In this clip, Chuck D speaks about The Bomb Squad working on Ice Cube's debut solo album, Amerikkka's Most Wanted, which he admits he was apprehensive to do at first. (interviewer laughs)Nick Huff Barili: Last year we interviewed Scar Face, uh, and he told–Nick Huff Barili:He, talked about Hip Hop becoming white now, and he said that the (current state of Hip Hop reminds him what happened with the blues and rock and roll.