Interview of Chuck D (1988)

Public Enemy, Nation and the clock

November 1988: Chuck D sits for a television interview while Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is still changing what a hip-hop record can hold. He talks Nation politics, the clock Flavor Flav wears as a joke that is also serious, and the urgency of putting Black news on wax at album volume.

He is clear like a preacher and hard like a producer. No sales talk. Records use sirens. The group brings news.