Editing Chuck D (section)

==Early life==
Ridenhour was born on August 1, 1960, on Long Island, New York.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Chuck D biography|url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/chuck-d/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102105657/http://www.mtv.com/artists/chuck-d/|archive-date=January 2, 2015|work=MTV Artists}}</ref> When he was a child, his mother played [[Motown (music style)|Motown]] and [[showtunes]] in the home and his father belonged to the [[Columbia Record Club]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coelho |first1=Saroja |title=Hip-hop legend Chuck D shares the stories behind songs that 'shook the planet' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/refuge-for-ukrainians-fleeing-their-country-elon-musk-s-tweets-chuck-d-computer-chips-from-honey-and-more-1.6435487/hip-hop-legend-chuck-d-shares-the-stories-behind-songs-that-shook-the-planet-1.6436383 |access-date=30 July 2022 |publisher=[[CBC.ca|CBC]] |date=April 29, 2022}}</ref> He began writing lyrics after the [[New York City blackout of 1977]].<ref name="Chang 237-238"/> He attended [[W. Tresper Clarke High School]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/534987539359092738|title=40 years ago I entered this high school on LongIsland.I was taught to challenge society at WT Clarke with #Audacity..pic.twitter.com/ChY4r9WYDz|last=D|first=Chuck|date=November 19, 2014|website=@MrChuckD|language=en|access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/318474276804128768|title=My Song of the Day Jackson Browne who I happened to meet up with 1996 at a Songwriters ceremony Peep THESE DAYS |last=D|first=Chuck|date=March 31, 2013|website=Twitter.com|access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref> where he was offered no formal education in music.<ref name="aarp">{{cite news |last1=Touré |title=Public Enemy's Chuck D Talks About Hip-Hop Music |url=https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/music/info-2019/hip-hop-chuck-d.html |access-date=30 July 2022 |publisher=[[AARP]] |date=December 3, 2019 |language=english}}</ref> He then went to [[Adelphi University]] on Long Island to study graphic design, where he met William Drayton ([[Flavor Flav]]). He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Adelphi in 1984 and later received an honorary doctorate from Adelphi in 2013.

While at Adelphi, Ridenhour co-hosted hip hop radio show the ''Super Spectrum Mix Hour'' as Chuck D on Saturday nights at Long Island rock radio station [[WLIR]], designed flyers for local hip-hop events, and drew a cartoon called ''Tales of the Skind'' for Adelphi student newspaper ''The Delphian''.<ref name="Chang 237-238">Chang 2005, pp. 237–238.</ref>