Editing Chuck D

{{Short description|American rapper (born 1960)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Chuck D
| image             = Chuck D-mika.jpg
| caption           = Chuck D in 2000
| image_size        = 
| birth_name        = {{nowrap|Carlton Douglas Ridenhour<ref name=":1" />}}
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1960|8|1}}
| alias             = {{hlist|[[The Bomb Squad|Carl Ryder]]|Mistachuck|Chucky D|Chuck Dangerous|The Hard Rhymer|The Rhyme Animal}}
| birth_place       = [[Hempstead, New York]], U.S.
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]|[[political hip hop]]|[[rap metal]]}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Rapper|songwriter}}
| years_active      = 1984–present
| label             = 
| current_member_of = [[Public Enemy]]
| past_member_of    = {{hlist|[[Prophets of Rage]]|[[The Bomb Squad]]}}
| associated_acts   = {{hlist|[[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]]|[[PE 2.0]]|[[Prophets of Rage]]|[[Confrontation Camp]]|[[Fine Arts Militia]]|[[Rage Against the Machine]]|[[Sonic Youth]]}}
| website           = {{URL|mrchuckd.com}}
| current_members   = 
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}}

'''Carlton Douglas Ridenhour''' (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as '''Chuck D''', is an American rapper,<ref>{{cite book|last1=D|first1=Chuck|title=Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V18iAQAAMAAJ |year=2007|publisher=Offda|location=Gardena, Calif.|isbn=978-0-9749484-1-6|last2=Jah |first2=Yusuf}}</ref> best known as the leader and frontman of the [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] group [[Public Enemy]], which he co-founded in 1985 with [[Flavor Flav]].<ref name="usatoday">{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/03/01/flavor-flav-slams-bernie-sanders-campaign-promoting-public-enemy-show/4923987002/|title=Public Enemy is 'moving forward without Flavor Flav' after Bernie Sanders rally dispute|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=March 6, 2020|language=en}}</ref> Chuck D is also a member of the rock [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] [[Prophets of Rage]]. He has released several solo albums, most notably ''[[Autobiography of Mistachuck]]'' (1996).

His work with Public Enemy helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s. ''[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]'' ranked him at No. 12 on its list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Lyricists of All Time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rapgenius.com/discussions/8591-The-source-top-50-lyricists-magazine-scans|title=The Source: Top 50 Lyricists [Magazine Scans] – Genius|work=Genius|access-date=September 17, 2014}}</ref> Chuck D has been nominated for six Grammys throughout his career, and has received the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] as a member of Public Enemy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chuck D – Grammys |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/chuck-d/1716 |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Isaac Hayes, Public Enemy To Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards – Okayplayer |url=https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/public-enemy-isaac-hayes-grammys.html/amp |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=www.okayplayer.com |archive-date=January 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101152608/https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/public-enemy-isaac-hayes-grammys.html/amp |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 2013 as a member of Public Enemy.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Bowenbank |first=Starr |date=2022-02-03 |title=Every Rapper in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |url=https://www.billboard.com/photos/rappers-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-1235026443/ |access-date=2023-01-01 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref>

==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>

==Career==
[[File:Chuck D. Slakthuset i Malmö 1991.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|Chuck D in 1991]]
Ridenhour (using the nickname Chuck D) formed [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] in 1985 with [[Flavor Flav]].<ref name="usatoday" /> Upon hearing Ridenhour's demo track "Public Enemy Number One", fledgling producer/upcoming music-mogul [[Rick Rubin]] insisted on signing him to his [[Def Jam|Def Jam Records]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795958,00.html |title=Hip-hop, you don't stop |work=the Guardian |access-date=September 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516232352/https://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0%2C%2C1795958%2C00.html |archive-date=May 16, 2008 }}</ref> Their major label releases were ''[[Yo! Bum Rush the Show]]'' (1987), ''[[It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back]]'' (1988), ''[[Fear of a Black Planet]]'' (1990), ''[[Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black]]'' (1991), the compilation album ''[[Greatest Misses]]'' (1992), and ''[[Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age]]'' (1994). They also released a [[He Got Game (soundtrack)|full-length album soundtrack]] for the film ''[[He Got Game]]'' in 1998.

Ridenhour also contributed (as Chuck D) to several episodes of the documentary series ''[[The Blues (film series)|The Blues]]''. He has appeared as a featured artist on many other songs and albums, having collaborated with artists such as [[Janet Jackson]], [[Kool Moe Dee]], [[The Dope Poet Society]], [[Run–D.M.C.]], [[Ice Cube]], [[Boom Boom Satellites]], [[Rage Against the Machine]], [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]], [[John Mellencamp]] and many others. In 1990, he appeared on "[[Kool Thing]]", a song by the [[alternative rock]] band [[Sonic Youth]], and along with [[Flavor Flav]], he sang on [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]'s song "Tweakin'", which appears on his 1989 album ''[[The Cinderella Theory]]''. In 1993, he was the executive producer for ''Got 'Em Running Scared'', an album by [[Ichiban Records]] group Chief Groovy Loo and the Chosen Tribe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Chief+Groovy+Loo+And+The+Chosen+Tribe |title=Chief Groovy Loo And The Chosen Tribe |publisher=Discogs.com |access-date=October 7, 2012}}</ref>

===Later career===
In 1996, Ridenhour released ''[[Autobiography of Mistachuck]]'' on [[Mercury Records]]. Chuck D made a rare appearance at the [[1998 MTV Video Music Awards]], presenting the [[Video Vanguard Award]] to the [[Beastie Boys]], commending their musicianship. In November 1998, he settled out of court with Christopher "[[The Notorious B.I.G.]]" Wallace's estate over the latter's sampling of his voice in the song "Ten Crack Commandments". The specific sampling is Ridenhour counting off the numbers one to nine on the track "Shut 'Em Down".<ref>{{cite web|last=Reiss |first=Randy |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/504067/chuck-d-settles-big-copyright-suit.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928002019/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/504067/chuck-d-settles-big-copyright-suit.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 28, 2012 |title=Public Enemy's Chuck D Settles B.I.G. Copyright Suit |publisher=MTV |date=November 17, 1998 |access-date=October 7, 2012}}</ref> He later described the decision to sue as "stupid".<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul |last=Arnold |title=Chuck D Explains Why Suing The Notorious B.I.G. Was "Stupid" And Why Jay-Z And Kanye West's Bases Are "Corrupt To Rap"|url=https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.18962/title.chuck-d-explains-why-suing-the-notorious-b-i-g-was-stupid-and-why-jay-z-and-kanye-wests-bases-are-corrupt-to-rap |access-date=June 23, 2017|work=HipHopDX|date=March 9, 2012}}</ref>

In September 1999, he launched a multi-format "supersite" on the web site Rapstation.com. The site includes a TV and radio station with original programming, prominent hip hop DJs, celebrity interviews, free MP3 downloads (the first was contributed by rapper [[Coolio]]), downloadable ringtones by [[ToneThis]], social commentary, current events, and regular features on turning rap careers into a viable living. Since 2000, he has been one of the most vocal supporters of [[peer-to-peer file sharing]] in the music industry.

He loaned his voice to ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' as DJ Forth Right MC for the radio station [[Playback FM]]. In 2000, he collaborated with Public Enemy's Gary G-Whiz and MC Lyte on the theme music to the television show ''[[Dark Angel (2000 TV series)|Dark Angel]]''. He appeared with [[Henry Rollins]] in a cover of [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]]'s "Rise Above" for the album ''[[Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three]]''. In 2003, he was featured in the PBS documentary [[The Blues: Godfathers and Sons|''Godfathers and Sons'']] in which he recorded a version of [[Muddy Waters]]' song "[[Mannish Boy]]" with [[Common (rapper)|Common]], Electrik Mud Cats, and [[Kyle Jason]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2003/tv/reviews/godfathers-sons-1200539628/|title=Godfathers & Sons|last=Gallo|first=Phil|date=September 2, 2003|website=Variety|language=en}}</ref> He was also featured on [[Z-Trip]]'s album ''[[Shifting Gears (DJ Z-Trip album)|Shifting Gears]]'' on a track called "Shock and Awe"; a 12-inch of the track was released featuring artwork by [[Shepard Fairey]]. In 2008 he contributed a chapter to ''Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture'' (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. [[DJ Spooky]], and also turned up on [[The Go! Team]]'s album ''[[Proof of Youth]]'' on the track "Flashlight Fight." He also fulfilled his childhood dreams of being a sports announcer by performing the play-by-play commentary in the video game ''[[NBA Ballers: Chosen One]]'' on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

In 2009, Ridenhour wrote the foreword to the book ''The Love Ethic: The Reason Why You Can't Find and Keep Beautiful Black Love'' by Kamau and Akilah Butler. He also appeared on [[Brother Ali]]'s album ''[[Us (Brother Ali album)|Us]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Williams, Kam |title=The Love Ethic |url=http://www.kamwilliams.com/2009/06/by-kamau-and-akilah-butler-foreword-by.html|date=June 30, 2009 |publisher=KamWilliams.com |access-date=June 30, 2009}}</ref>

In March 2011, Chuck D re-recorded vocals with [[The Dillinger Escape Plan]] for a cover of "[[Fight the Power (Public Enemy song)|Fight the Power]]".
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?520935-1/rapper-chuck-songs-shook-planet Interview with Chuck D at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, June 10, 2022], [[C-SPAN]]}} 
Chuck D duetted with Rock singer [[Meat Loaf]] on his 2011 album ''[[Hell in a Handbasket]]'' on the song "Mad Mad World/The Good God Is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly".

In 2016 Chuck D joined the band [[Prophets of Rage]] along with [[B-Real]] and former members of [[Rage Against the Machine]].

In July 2019, Ridenhour sued Terrordome Music Publishing and Reach Music Publishing for $1 million for withholding royalties.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8526817/chuck-d-sues-publishing-company-reach-music-for-withholding-royalties|title=Chuck D Sues Publishing Company Reach Music for Withholding Royalties|website=Billboard.com|access-date=October 15, 2019|date=August 8, 2019}}</ref>

In 2023, Chuck D released a four-part documentary on PBS entitled "Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1158169222/chuck-d-on-his-new-hip-hop-documentary-fight-the-power|title=Chuck D on His New Hip Hop Documentary 'Fight the Power'|website=npr.org|access-date=February 24, 2023|date=February 18, 2023}}</ref>

Chuck D had narrated several podcasts, including the hip-hop origin documentary ''Can You Dig It?''<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.spin.com/2023/06/chuck-d-audible-can-you-dig-it/|title=Chuck D To Narrate Audible Series Exploring Hip-Hop's South Bronx Origins|magazine=SPIN|date=June 1, 2023}}</ref>

==Rapping technique and creative process==
[[File:Chuck D Public Enemy Way Out West 2013 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Chuck D in 2013]]
Chuck D is known for his powerful rapping. ''How to Rap'' says he "has a powerful, resonant voice that is often acclaimed as one of the most distinct and impressive in hip-hop".<ref name="edwards"/>{{rp|248}} Chuck says this was based on listening to [[Melle Mel]] and sportscasters such as [[Marv Albert]].<ref name="edwards"/>{{rp|248}}

Chuck often comes up with a title for a song first.<ref name="edwards"/>{{rp|31}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Coleman |first=Brian |title=Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies |location=New York |publisher=Villard/Random House |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8129-7775-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/checktechniqueli00cole/page/360 360] |url=https://archive.org/details/checktechniqueli00cole |url-access=registration }}</ref> He writes on paper, though sometimes edits using a computer.<ref name="edwards">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZemzPXFgeEoC&pg=PA143 |title=How to Rap |isbn=9781569763773 |last1=Edwards |first1=Paul |date=December 2009 |publisher=Chicago Review Press }}</ref>{{rp|143}} He prefers to not [[Punch in/out|punch in]]<ref name="edwards"/>{{rp|280}} or [[overdub]] vocals.<ref name="edwards"/>{{rp|282}}

Chuck listed his favourite rap albums in ''[[Hip Hop Connection]]'' in March 2000:

#<li value=10> [[N.W.A]], ''[[Straight Outta Compton]]'' 
#<li value=9> [[Boogie Down Productions]], ''[[Criminal Minded]]'' 
#<li value=8> [[Run-DMC]], ''[[Tougher Than Leather]]'' 
#<li value=7> [[Big Daddy Kane]], ''[[Looks Like a Job For...]]'' 
#<li value=6> [[Stetsasonic]], ''[[In Full Gear]]''
#<li value=5> [[Ice Cube]], ''[[AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted]]''
#<li value=4> [[Dr. Dre]], ''[[The Chronic]]'' 
#<li value=3> [[De La Soul]], ''[[3 Feet High and Rising]]'' 
#<li value=2> [[Eric B. & Rakim]], ''[[Follow the Leader (Eric B. & Rakim album)|Follow the Leader]]'' 
#<li value=1> [[Run-DMC]], ''[[Raising Hell (album)|Raising Hell]]'' ("It was the first record that made me realise this was an album-oriented genre")<ref>{{cite journal|first= Mansel |last= Fletcher |title= 100 Best Albums Ever |journal= [[Hip Hop Connection]] |date= March 2000 |pages= 21–42}}</ref>

==Politics==
Chuck D identifies as Black, as opposed to African or African-American. In a 1993 issue of DIRT Magazine covering a taping of [[In the Mix (TV series)|''In the Mix'']] hosted by [[Alimi Ballard]] at the Apollo, Dan Field writes, <blockquote>At one point, Chuck bristles a bit at the term "African-American." He thinks of himself as Black and sees nothing wrong with the term. Besides, he says, having been born in the United States and lived his whole life here, he doesn't consider himself African. Being in Public Enemy has given him the chance to travel around the world, an experience that really opened his eyes and his mind. He says visiting Africa and experiencing life on a continent where the majority of people are Black gave him a new perspective and helped him get in touch with his own history. He also credits a trip to the ancient Egyptian pyramids at Giza with helping him appreciate the relative smallness of man.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Field|first=Dan|date=1993|title=New York, New York; Chuck D, Public Enemy's Mouthpiece|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7489q3mv/|journal=DIRT Magazine|type=Zine|via=Online Archive of California; University of California, Los Angeles Library Special Collections}}</ref></blockquote>
Ridenhour is politically active; he co-hosted ''Unfiltered'' on [[Air America Radio]], testified before the United States Congress in support of [[peer-to-peer]] MP3 sharing, and was involved in a 2004 rap political convention. He has continued to be an activist, publisher, lecturer, and producer.

Addressing the negative views associated with rap music, he co-wrote the essay book ''Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality'' with Yusuf Jah. He argues that "music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality", but sometimes the distinction is blurred and that's when "things could lead a young mind in a direction."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/04648327/chuck_d_the_d_is_for_dangerous.html |title=Chuck D: The D is for Dangerous |publisher=Crave Online |date=August 6, 2007 |access-date=October 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807110142/http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/04648327/chuck_d_the_d_is_for_dangerous.html |archive-date=August 7, 2013}}</ref> He also founded the record company Slam Jamz and acted as narrator in Kareem Adouard's short film ''Bling: Consequences and Repercussions'', which examines the role of [[conflict diamonds]] in [[bling]] fashion. Despite Chuck D and Public Enemy's success, Chuck D claims that popularity or public approval was never a driving motivation behind their work. He is admittedly skeptical of celebrity status, revealing in a 1999 interview with ''BOMB Magazine'' that "The key for the record companies is to just keep making more and more stars, and make the ones who actually challenge our way of life irrelevant. The creation of celebrity has clouded the minds of most people in America, Europe and Asia. It gets people off the path they need to be on as individuals."<ref>{{cite web |last=Thorpe |first=David |url=http://bombsite.com/issues/68/articles/2251 |title=Chuck D |work=[[BOMB Magazine]] |date=Summer 1999 |access-date=June 13, 2012 |archive-date=September 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920225520/http://bombsite.com/issues/68/articles/2251 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In an interview with ''Le Monde'', published January 29, 2008,<ref name="monde">{{cite news|title=Chuck D : let rap sans strass|language=fr|trans-title=Chuck D: Rap Without Rhinestones|work=[[Le Monde]]| date=January 29, 2008 |first=Véronique |last=Mortaigne|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/01/29/chuck-d-le-rap-sans-strass_1004960_3246.html#ens_id=1005052|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131062649/http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/01/29/chuck-d-le-rap-sans-strass_1004960_3246.html#ens_id=1005052 |archive-date=January 31, 2008|access-date=June 19, 2019}}</ref> Chuck D stated that rap is devolving so much into a commercial enterprise, that the relationship between the rapper and the record label is that of slave to a master. He believes that nothing has changed for African-Americans since the debut of Public Enemy and, although he thinks that an Obama-Clinton alliance is great, he does not feel that the establishment will allow anything of substance to be accomplished. He stated that French President [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] is like any other European elite: he has profited through the murder, rape, and pillaging of those less fortunate and he refuses to allow equal opportunity for those men and women from Africa. In this article, he defended a comment made by [[Professor Griff]] in the past that he says was taken out of context by the media. The real statement was a critique of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinian people. Chuck D stated that it is Public Enemy's belief that all human beings are equal.<ref name="monde" />

In an interview with the magazine ''N'Digo'' published in June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of [[Economic materialism|materialism]] and [[sexism]], perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future. However, he has expressed hope for its resurrection, saying "It's only going to be dead if it doesn't talk about the messages of life as much as the messages of death and non-movement", citing artists such as [[NYOil]], [[M.I.A. (rapper)|M.I.A.]] and [[The Roots]] as socially conscious artists who push the envelope creatively. "A lot of cats are out there doing it, on the Web and all over. They're just not placing their career in the hands of some major corporation."<ref>{{cite news |last=Muhammad |first=Cinque |url=http://www.ndigo.com/coverstory.asp |url-status=dead |title=Hip-Hop Conspiracy? Critics charge conscious rap is silenced. |work=N'Digo Online |date=June 26, 2008 |access-date=July 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807162245/http://www.ndigo.com/coverstory.asp |archive-date=August 7, 2008}}</ref>

In 2010, Chuck D released the track "Tear Down That Wall." He said "I talked about the wall not only just dividing the U.S. and Mexico but the states of California, New Mexico and Texas. But Arizona, it's like, come on. Now they're going to enforce a law that talks about basically racial profiling."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/957694/chuck-d-takes-aim-at-arizona-public-enemy-in-the-studio |title=Chuck D Takes Aim at Arizona; Public Enemy In the Studio|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=September 14, 2009 |access-date=May 8, 2012}}</ref>

He is on the board of the [[TransAfrica Forum]], a Pan African organization that is focused on African, Caribbean and Latin American issues.

He has been an activist with projects of [[Revolutionary Communist Party USA|The Revcoms]], such as [[Refuse Fascism]] and Stop Mass Incarceration Network.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://revcom.us/a/355/chuck-d-takes-the-pledge-for-the-month-of-resistance-en.html|title=Chuck D takes the pledge for the Month of Resistance|website=revcom.us}}</ref> [[Carl Dix]] interviewed Chuck D on The Revcoms' YouTube program ''The RNL – Revolution, Nothing Less! – Show''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbOGKLb8fhQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/tbOGKLb8fhQ| archive-date=2021-11-17 | url-status=live|title = CHUCK D on removing Trump, George Floyd, and the new Public Enemy video| website=[[YouTube]]| date=August 24, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2022, he endorsed [[Conrad Tillard]], formerly the Nation of Islam Minister known as Conrad Muhammad and subsequently a Baptist Minister, in his campaign for [[New York State Senate]] in [[New York's 25th State Senate district|District 25]] (covering part of eastern and north-central Brooklyn).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://politicsny.com/2022/08/15/mayor-adams-endorses-tillard-over-dsaer-brisport-in-bed-stuy-senate-race/|title=Mayor Adams Endorses Tillard over DSAer Brisport in Bed-Stuy senate race|first=Stephen|last=Witt|date=August 15, 2022|website=PoliticsNY}}</ref>

Chuck D is a US Global Music Ambassador in a programme established by the [[US State Department]] and [[YouTube]]. It is part of the State Department's Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, which is designed to "elevate music as a diplomatic platform to promote peace and democracy".<ref>{{cite web |last1=King |first1=Ashley |title=YouTube Partners with US State Department |url=https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/06/25/youtube-partners-us-state-department/ |website=Digital Music News |access-date=9 September 2024 |date=25 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Aswad |first1=Jem |title=Lainey Wilson, Chuck D, Many More Join YouTube's Partnership With U.S. State Department to Promote Peace |url=https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/lainey-wilson-chuck-d-youtube-partnership-state-department-promote-peace-1236047339/ |website=Variety |access-date=9 September 2024 |date=24 June 2024}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Chuck D does not drink alcohol.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|last2=Tate|first2=Greg|title=Chuck D All Over the Map|website=Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/chuckd-91.php|access-date=15 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018023830/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/chuckd-91.php|archive-date=18 October 2017}}</ref>

Chuck D has said on Twitter that he is the maternal great-grandson of architect [[George Washington Foster]].<ref>{{Cite tweet |author=Chuck D |user=MrChuckD |number=1113958228147093504 |date=April 4, 2019 |title=My family claim to fame is my great grandfather George Washington Foster was the second licensed Black architect in New York and spit his design work on this building still here. #Flatiron #StriveForGreatness 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿 |access-date=July 30, 2022 |link=https://twitter.com/mrchuckd/status/1113958228147093504}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |author=Chuck D |user=MrChuckD |number=1502825769134968833 |date=March 12, 2022 |title=Of course George Washington Foster being my Moms grandfather 1st licensed Black architect in NJ , second Black licensed architect in NY ( worked on Flatiron Bldg) you also clear up long family rumor on Jefferson Davis. Yeah slavery was a MF – Wikipedia |access-date=July 30, 2022 |link=https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1502825769134968833}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |author=Chuck D |user=MrChuckD |number=1553506504409419777 |date=July 30, 2022 |title=My great grandfather George Washington Foster designed quite a few buildings in nyc and a slew of buildings in New Jersey his state. Everytime I pass the @FlatironNY building I think of history |access-date=July 30, 2022 |link=https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1553506504409419777}}</ref>

As of June 2023, he has three children aged 34, 30 and 10, the two oldest by his first ex-wife, Deborah McClendon, and the youngest by Gaye Theresa Johnson.<ref name="aarp" />

Chuck D lives in California and lost his home in the [[Thomas Fire]] that occurred from December 2017 to January 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/public-enemy-chuck-d-lost-his-home-in-california-wildfire-court-papers-say |title=Chuck D Lost His Home in California Wildfire, Court Papers Say |last=Kenneally |first=Tim |date=January 10, 2018 |website=TheWrap |access-date=October 26, 2020}}</ref>

==TV appearances==
* Appeared in the ''[[Behind the Music]]'' episode on [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]].
* Narrated and appeared on-camera for the 2005 PBS documentary ''[[Harlem Globetrotters]]: The Team That Changed the World''.
* Appeared on-camera for the PBS program ''[[Independent Lens]]: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes''.
* Appeared in an episode of ''[[NewsRadio]]'' as himself.
* He appeared on ''[[The Henry Rollins Show]]''.
* He was a featured panelist (with [[Lars Ulrich]]) on the May 12, 2000, episode of the ''[[Charlie Rose (talk show)|Charlie Rose]]'' show. Host [[Charlie Rose]] was discussing the Internet, copyright infringement, [[Napster|Napster Inc.]], and the future of the music industry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2000/05/12/1/a-discussion-of-the-music-wars-on-the-internet |title=A discussion of the music wars on the internet |publisher=Charlierose.com |access-date=September 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423055930/http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2000/05/12/1/a-discussion-of-the-music-wars-on-the-internet |archive-date=April 23, 2014 }}</ref>
* He appeared on an episode of ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' with [[Pat Boone]]. While there, [[Space Ghost]] tried (and failed) to show he was "hip" to rap, saying his favorite rapper was [[M. C. Escher]].
* He appeared on an episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''.
* He appeared via satellite to the UK, as a panelist on BBC's ''[[Newsnight]]'' on January 20, 2009, following [[Barack Obama]]'s Inauguration.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7842840.stm|title=Newsnight debate on unity in America|publisher=News.bbc.co.uk|access-date=September 17, 2014|date=January 21, 2009}}</ref>
* He appeared on a Christmas episode of [[Adult Swim]]'s ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.
* He appeared on ''VH1 Ultimate Albums Blood Sugar Sex Magik'' talking about the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]].
* He appeared on ''[[Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways]]'' in the episode talking about the beginnings of the hip-hop scene in New York City
* He is featured in the 2024 documentary ''[[Cover Your Ears]]'' produced by ''[[Prairie Coast Films]]'' and directed by ''[[Sean Patrick Shaul]]'', discussing music censorship. <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18296562/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk | title=Cover Your Ears }}</ref>
* He voiced the Marvel supervillain [[Beetle (comics)|Beetle]] in ''[[Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur]]''.

==Music appearances==
*In 1990, Chuck featured on [[Sonic Youth]] single "[[Kool Thing]]".
*In 1993, Chuck rapped on "New Agenda" from [[Janet Jackson]]'s ''[[Janet (album)|janet.]]'' "I loved his work, but I'd never met him," said Jackson. "I called Chuck up and told him how much I admired [Public Enemy's] work. When I hear Chuck, it's like I'm hearing someone teaching, talking to a whole bunch of people. And instead of just having the rap in the bridge, as usual, I wanted him to do stuff all the way through. I sent him a tape. He said he loved the song, but he was afraid he was going to mess it up. I said 'Are you kidding?'"<ref>''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'', June 1993</ref>
*In 1999, Chuck D appeared on [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s hit "Undisputed" on the album ''[[Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic]]''.
*In 2001, Chuck D recorded the Twisted Sister song "Wake Up the Sleeping Giant" for the Twisted Sister tribute album "Twisted Forever"
*In 2001, Chuck D appeared on the Japanese electronic duo [[Boom Boom Satellites]] track "Your Reality's a Fantasy but Your Fantasy Is Killing Me" on the album ''[[Umbra (album)|Umbra]]''.
*In 2001, Chuck D provided vocals for [[Public Domain (band)|Public Domain]]'s ''[[Rock Da Funky Beats]]''.
*In 2010, Chuck D made an appearance on the track "Transformação" (Portuguese for "Transformation") from Brazilian rapper [[MV Bill]]'s album ''Causa E Efeito'' (meaning ''Cause and Effect'').
*In 2003 he was featured on the track "Access to the Excess" in [[Tom Holkenborg|Junkie XL]]'s album ''[[Radio JXL: A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin]]''.
*In 2011 Chuck D made an appearance on the track "Mad Mad World/The Good God Is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly" from [[Meat Loaf]]'s 2011 album ''[[Hell in a Handbasket]]''.
*In 2013, he has appeared in [[Mat Zo]]'s single "Pyramid Scheme".
*In 2013 he performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Music Masters concert tribute to [[The Rolling Stones]].
*In 2014 he performed with Jahi on "People Get Ready" and "Yo!" from [[People Get Ready (PE 2.0 album)|the first album]] by Public Enemy spin-off project [[PE 2.0]].
*In 2016 he appeared in [[ASAP Ferg]]'s album "[[Always Strive and Prosper]]" on the track "Beautiful People".
*In 2017 he was featured on the track "America" on [[Logic (musician)|Logic]]'s album "[[Everybody (Logic album)|Everybody]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/05/stream-new-logic-album-everybody/|title=Stream Logic's New Album 'Everybody'|work=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]]|date=May 5, 2017 |access-date=May 5, 2017}}</ref>
*In 2019, he appeared on "Story of Everything", a song on ''[[Threads (Sheryl Crow album)|Threads]]'', an album by [[Sheryl Crow]]. The track also features [[Andra Day]] and [[Gary Clark Jr.]]

==Discography==

===with Public Enemy===
{{Main|Public Enemy discography}}
'''Studio albums'''
* ''[[Yo! Bum Rush the Show]]'' (1987)
* ''[[It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Fear of a Black Planet]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age]]'' (1994)
* ''[[He Got Game (soundtrack)|He Got Game]]'' (1998)
* ''[[There's a Poison Goin' On]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Revolverlution]]'' (2002)
* ''[[New Whirl Odor]]'' (2005)
* ''[[How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp]]'' (2012)
* ''[[The Evil Empire of Everything]]'' (2012)
* ''[[Man Plans God Laughs]]'' (2015)
* ''[[Nothing Is Quick in the Desert]]'' (2017)
* ''[[What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?]]'' (2020)

===w/ Confrontation Camp===
'''Studio albums'''
*''[[Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Confrontation Camp album)|Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear]]'' (2001)

===w/ Prophets of Rage===
'''Studio albums'''
* ''[[Prophets of Rage (album)|Prophets of Rage]]'' (2017)

'''Studio EPs'''
* ''The Party's Over'' (2016)

===Solo===
'''Studio albums'''
* ''[[Autobiography of Mistachuck]]'' (1996)
* ''The Black in Man'' (2014)
* ''If I Can't Change the People Around Me I Change the People Around Me'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.rcsmusic.com/81215074442275/if-i-cant-change-the-people-around-me-i-change-the-people-around-me.html| title= RCS Music| website= rcsmusic.com| access-date= December 29, 2016| archive-date= December 13, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171213010043/https://www.rcsmusic.com/81215074442275/if-i-cant-change-the-people-around-me-i-change-the-people-around-me.html| url-status= usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.publicenemy.com/news/521/chuck-d-drops-new-video-and-new-album.html| title=Chuck D Drops New Video and New Album| website=publicenemy.com| access-date=December 29, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230162158/http://www.publicenemy.com/news/521/chuck-d-drops-new-video-and-new-album.html| archive-date=December 30, 2016| url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''Celebration of Ignorance'' (2018)
* '' We Wreck Stadium (2023)
* ''Radio Armageddon''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://consequence.net/2025/04/chuck-d-radio-armageddon-new-gens-stream/ | title=Chuck D announces new solo album Radio Armageddon, shares "New Gens" }}</ref> (2025)

'''Compilation albums'''
* ''Action'' (DJ Matheos Worldwide International Remix) – Most*hifi (featuring Chuck D. and Huggy) (2010)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Action-Matheos-Worldwide-International-Remix/dp/B004FGLALS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349706894&sr=8-1&keywords=action+dj+matheos+remix |title=Action (DJ Matheos Worldwide International Remix) |website=Amazon.com |access-date=December 2, 2013}}</ref>
* ''Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin''' (as Mistachuck) (2012)

==== Guest Shots ====
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Name
!Other Guest Shots
!Album
|-
|1988
|Funny Vibe
|[[Living Colour]], Flavor Flav
|[[Vivid (Living Colour album)|Vivid]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|[[Self Destruction (song)|Self Destruction]]
|The "Stop the Violence" Movement
|<small>'''Single'''</small>
|-
|Tweakin'
|[[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]
|[[The Cinderella Theory]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |1990
|Kool Thing
|[[Sonic Youth]]
|[[Goo (album)|Goo]]
|-
|Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside)
| rowspan="2" |[[Ice Cube]]
|[[AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted]]
|-
|Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) [Remix]
|[[Kill at Will]]
|-
| rowspan="6" |1991
|Back from Hell (Remix)
|[[Run-DMC]], Ice Cube
|Faces / Back from Hell 12"
|-
|Buck Whylin'
|[[Terminator X]], [[Sister Souljah]]
|[[Terminator X & The Valley of the Jeep Beets]]
|-
|Family Got to Get Busy
|''H.E.A.L.''
|Civilization vs. Technology
|-
|America Eats the Young
|[[Marley Marl]], [[Tragedy Khadafi|Intelligent Hoodlum]]
|In Control Volume II (For Your Steering Pleasure)
|-
|Rise N' Shine
|[[Kool Moe Dee]], [[KRS-One]]
|[[Funke, Funke Wisdom]]
|-
|Time to Come Correct
|[[Prince Akeem]]
|Coming Down Like Babylon
|-
| rowspan="2" |1992
|State of Accommodation:  Why Aren't You Mad?
|[[Sister Souljah]]
|[[360 Degrees of Power]]
|-
|40 Acres and a Mule
|Success-N-Effect
|Drive By of Uh Revolutionist
|-
| rowspan="3" |1993
|Close the Crackhouse
|Professor X the Overseer, Big Daddy Kane, [[Digital Underground]], [[Wise Intelligent]]
|Puss N' Boots (The Struggle Continues...)
|-
|Paint the White House Black
|George Clinton, Ice Cube, [[Dr. Dre]], Yo-Yo, [[MC Breed]], [[Kam (rapper)|Kam]], [[Shock G]]
|[[Hey, Man, Smell My Finger]]
|-
|New Agenda
|[[Janet Jackson]]
|[[Janet (album)|Janet]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1994
|Step
|[[Freddie Foxxx]]
|Crazy like a Foxxx
|-
|Sticka
|[[Terminator X]], [[MC Lyte]], Ice Cube, Ice T
|[[Super Bad (Terminator X album)|Super Bad]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |1995
|It's the Pride
|{{N/a}}
|Pump Ya Fist (soundtrack)
|-
|Ball of Confusion
|Dapper Dan
|The Promised Land
|-
|Hyperbollicsyllabicsesqueadalymystic
|[[Isaac Hayes]]
|[[Branded (Isaac Hayes album)|Branded]]
|-
|1997
|Down to Now
|[[The Last Poets]]
|Time Has Come
|-
|1998
|At Least American Indian People Know Exactly How They've Been Fucked Around (Mad Professor Mix)
|The Fire This Time
|Still Dancing on John Wayne's Head
|-
| rowspan="4" |1999
|Mumia 911
|Various MC's
|<small>'''Single'''</small>
|-
|Military Ridaz
|Soldierz at War
|S.A.W.
|-
|Survival A.K.A. Black Survivors
|[[Bob Marley]]
|[[Chant Down Babylon]]
|-
|Undisputed
|[[Prince (musician)|Prince]]
|[[Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic]]
|-
|2000
|Burned Hollywood Burned
|[[The Roots]], [[Zack de la Rocha]]
|[[Bamboozled (soundtrack)]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2001
|Your Reality's A Fantasy But Your Fantasy Is Killing Me
|Boom Boom Satellites 
|Umbra
|-
|Elvis Killed Kennedy
|[[Vanilla Ice]]<s>(!)</s>
|Bi-Polar
|-
|Cuttin' Heads
|[[John Mellencamp]]
|[[Cuttin' Heads]]
|-
|2002
|Pressin' On
|[[Bootsy Collins]]
|[[Play with Bootsy]]
|-
|2003
|Politics of the Business
|[[Prince Paul (producer)|Prince Paul]], Ice T
|[[Politics of the Business]]
|-
|2004
|Hot Gossip
|Blues Explosion
|Damage
|-
| rowspan="3" |2005
|Bin Laden pt. 2
|Immortal Technique, KRS-One
|<small>'''Single'''</small>
|-
|Shock and Awe
|Z-Trip
|Shifting Gears
|-
|Sing a Simple Song
|[[Sly and the Family Stone]], [[Isaac Hayes]], [[D'Angelo]]
|[[Different Strokes by Different Folks]]
|-
|2007
|The Reverse
|[[Archie Shepp]]
|Gemini
|-
| rowspan="3" |2008
|Winter in America
|[[Paris (rapper)|Paris]]
|[[Acid Reflex]]
|-
|Today's Topics
|KRS-One
|[[Adventures in Emceein]]
|-
|Self-Esteem
|[[Nelly]]
|[[Brass Knuckles (album)|Brass Knuckles]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |2009
|Money
|[[N.A.S.A. (musical group)|N.A.S.A.]]
|[[The Spirit of Apollo]]
|-
|Brothers and Sisters
|[[Brother Ali]]
|[[Us (Brother Ali album)|Us]]
|-
|Say Yeah
|Sharam
|''Get Wild''
|-
|A Box on the Broken Ball
|Brain Failure
|Downtown Production
|-
|2010
|Civil War
|[[Immortal Technique]], [[Killer Mike]], [[Brother Ali]]
|The Matyr
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2011
|Hip Hop @ Funk U
|[[Ice Cube]], [[Snoop Dogg]]
|[[Tha Funk Capital of the World]]
|-
|The Good God Is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly
|[[Meat Loaf]]
|[[Hell in a Handbasket]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2013
|Pyramid Scheme
|[[Mat Zo]]
|Damage Control
|-
|Whaddup
|[[LL Cool J]], [[Tom Morello]], [[Z-Trip]], [[Travis Barker]]
|[[Authentic (LL Cool J album)|Authentic]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2014
|The People
|[[De La Soul]]
|<small>'''Single'''</small>
|-
|Fight
|[[Ed O.G.]]
|After All These Years
|-
|2015
|I Can't Breathe
|Marcus Miller, Mocean Worker
|''Afrodeezia''
|-
| rowspan="3" |2016
|Lazy Eye
|[[Aesop Rock]]
|[[The Impossible Kid (album)|The Impossible Kid]]
|-
|Y.B.I.
|[[Masta Ace]]
|The Falling Season
|-
|Beautiful People
|[[ASAP Ferg]], Mama Ferg
|[[Always Strive and Prosper]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2017
|Illusions
|[[Bootsy Collins]], Buckethead, Blvckseeds
|[[World Wide Funk]]
|-
|Comin' Like a Rhino
|[[DMC (rapper)|DMC]]
|Back from the Dead
|-
|America
|[[Logic (rapper)|Logic]], Big Lenbo, [[No I.D.]], [[Black Thought]]
|[[Everybody (Logic album)|Everybody]]
|-
|2019
|Story of Everything
|[[Sheryl Crow]], Adra Day, [[Gary Clark Jr.]]
|[[Threads (Sheryl Crow album)|Threads]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2020
|Malice of Mammon
|[[R.A. the Rugged Man]]
|[[All My Heroes Are Dead]]
|-
|Are You Ready
|[[Goodie Mob]]
|[[Survival Kit (album)|Survival Kit]]
|-
|A Riot in My Mind
|[[Common (rapper)|Common]], [[Lenny Kravitz]]
|[[A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2022
|Man in Black
|Bob Log III
|JR Vol 3: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
|-
|Power
|[[Chill Rob G]]
|Empires Crumble
|-
|Miracle
|[[Betty Boo]]
|[[Boomerang (Betty Boo album)|Boomerang]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2023
|Black Stolen
|Tony Touch, Bobby Sessions
|''The Def Tape''
|-
|The Amazing Willie Mays
|Nabaté Isles
|''We Wreck Stadiums''
|-
|Hip Hop Saves Lives
|[[Arrested Development (group)|Arrested Development]]
|<small>'''Single'''</small>
|-
| rowspan="4" |2024
|The Getdown
|The Impossibulls
|''Everything Has Changed, Nothing Is Different''
|-
|The World Is Cooked
|Craig G
|''The World Is Cooked''
|-
|Courtesy Call
|[[Skyzoo]]
|''Keep Me Company''
|-
|What HAs America Done
|Consequence
|{{Non-album single}}
|}

== Music Videos (as guest) ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!
!
!
!
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|Funny Vibe
|Living Colour
|
|-
|Self Destruction
|Stop the Violence Movement
|
|-
|1990
|Kool Thing
|Sonic Youth
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |1991
|Buck Whylin'
|[[Terminator X]], [[Sister Souljah]]
|
|-
|Time to Come Correct
|Prince Akeem
|
|-
|Rise N Shine
|Kool Moe Dee, KRS One
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1993
|Close the Crackhouse
|Professor X the Overseer, Big Daddy Kane, [[Digital Underground]], [[Wise Intelligent]]
|
|-
|Paint the White House Black
|George Clinton, Ice Cube, [[Dr. Dre]], Yo-Yo, [[MC Breed]], [[Kam (rapper)|Kam]], [[Shock G]]
|
|-
|2013
|Pyramid Scheme
|Mat Zo
|
|-
|2014
|Fight
|Ed O.G.
|
|-
|2016
|Y.B.I.
|Masta Ace
|
|-
|2019
|Story of Everything
|[[Sheryl Crow]], Adra Day, [[Gary Clark Jr.]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2022
|Malice of Mammon
|R.A. the Rugged Man
|
|-
|Miracle
|Betty Boo
|
|-
|2023
|Hip Hop Saves Lives
|Arrested Development
|
|-
|2024
|What Has America Done
|Consequence
|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

;Other sources
* {{cite book|author=Chang, Jeff|title=Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation|place=New York|publisher=Picador|year=2005|isbn=0312425791|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cantstopwontstop00chang}}

== Selected publications ==
*{{cite book|author1=Chuck D|author2=Yusuf Jah|title=Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality|year=1997|edition=1st|publisher=Dell Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-8624-1720-8}}
*{{cite book|author1=Chuck D|author2=Yusuf Jah|title=Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary Volume One|year=2006|publisher=Office Da Books|isbn=978-0-9749-4841-6}}
*{{cite book|author1=Chuck D|author2=Duke Eatmon|author3=Ron Maskell|author4=Lorrie Boula|author5=Jonathan Bernstein|author6=Shepard Fairey|title=Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History|year=2017|publisher=[[Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers|Black Dog & Leventhal]]|isbn=978-0-3164-3097-5}}

==External links==
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*[https://www.publicenemy.com/ Public Enemy website]
*{{IMDb name|0195982|Chuck D}}
*{{AllMusic|id=mn0000359359}}
*{{Discogs artist|Chuck D}}

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