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Flavor Flav wishes newlyweds Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce well and reveals big hope for their union

Public Enemy co-founder Flavor Flav, a self-proclaimed King Swiftie, wants Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have the "longest and most prosperous marriage ever", and he hopes they have "plenty of kids and grandkids" together.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Is Turning Official Briefings Into Hip-Hop Trivia, Quoting Kanye West to Explain the Stakes in Lebanon

Critics argue that his use of rap lyrics trivializes serious issues, reducing high-stakes diplomacy to a punchline.

The Mary Sue

Rebels & icons: why Janette Beckman didn't wait for permission to photograph music history

The British photographer spent four decades pointing her camera at the future. A new Seattle retrospective proves the best photographs aren't taken, they're anticipated.

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Notorious rap fan Marco Rubio references Public Enemy to back Iran attacks in Trump’s Cabinet meeting

The Secretary of State has a history of slipping rap lyrics into his public statements, recently quoting Biggie Smalls in reference to ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro

The Independent UK

Public Enemy rapper offers US women’s hockey team an alternative after Trump snub

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Flavor Flav Teases Big Reality TV Plans, And Weighs In On Possibly Competing On DWTS

I need to see him hit the dancefloor.

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Public Enemy re-record 1998 anthem for special cause

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Public Enemy flip Nineties hit into women’s empowerment anthem ‘She Got Game’

New version was inspired by Flavor Flav’s connections to the Olympics

The Independent UK

“When I look back, there’s never been any one thing that’s been normal about this band. I’m used to strangeness in my world!”: The controversial dance band who lit a fire under the 90s metal scene

How The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land bought aggro to dance music and rave culture to metal

Metal Hammer

Rap superstars Public Enemy and Ice Cube to support Guns N' Roses on 2026 US tour

Hip hop legends to join hard rock giants on 2026 world tour

Louder

"I'm sure he was thinking of Stevie Nicks." From Public Enemy and Tom Waits to Spider-Man, the ten songs that changed the life of Clutch's Neil Fallon

Clutch's firebrand preacher explains how blues, funk and hip hop all set him on the path to music

Metal Hammer

"They commenced to destroy, slaughter and wipe the stage with our blood." How a hip hop powerhouse and a heavy metal institution united to create a whole new genre - and spark one of the rowdiest tours in history

"There was an equal chance that both bands would lose audiences"

Metal Hammer

Public Enemy’s Chuck D: ‘Bob Vylan ain’t got no tanks... You can’t really kill nobody with a guitar or a microphone’

INTERVIEW: The leader of hip-hop’s first great radical band talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the ‘fight for peace and love by any means necessary’, why he won't refer to the US president by name, Elvis Presley, and ageism in hip-hop

The Independent UK

Cypress Hill: ‘We made plenty of tracks when we weren’t high’

INTERVIEW: Hip-hop superstars Sen Dog and B-Real talk to Stevie Chick about surviving their early gang-banging days, making an orchestral album with the LSO, the concept of retirement and why they think there weren’t ‘any bigger stoners than the two of us’

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“Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and it was minor key and dark. If you could take that to the next level, you could make it heavy metal”: How hip hop changed metal forever

Anthrax, Rage Against The Machine and Korn all owe a debt to hip hop

Evening Standard

Public Enemy and Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir return to London after long absence

Both acts will perform at the Royal Albert Hall in 2025.

The Independent UK

Gene Barge death: Renowned saxophonist and producer known as 'Daddy G' dies at 98

He co-produced Cole’s Grammy-winning single ‘Sophisticated Lady’ and toured with the Rolling Stones

Louder

"Fear is not a good mindset for musicians. Rock 'n' roll was not born out of fear." From Igor Stravinsky to Public Enemy, here are 10 bold, brilliant albums to inspire and fire revolution

Atari Teenage Riot frontman Alec Empire has always believed in the power of music to effect change. Here are 10 incendiary records he recommends as the soundtrack for revolutionary struggles worldwide

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As Marvel fans reminiscence about Luke Cage's Netflix series, its creator says what they had planned for season 3 was "even better"

Marvel fans are missing Mike Colter's Luke Cage, and so are we

The Independent UK

Stop using Public Enemy’s ‘Burn Hollywood Burn’ on videos of ‘horrific’ LA fires, pleads Chuck D

‘It has nothing to do with families losing everything they have in a natural disaster,’ said rapper

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Chuck D pleads for people to stop using Public Enemy’s Burn Hollywood Burn on videos of LA fires

The 1990 protest track ‘has nothing to do with families losing everything they have’ says the rapper, hitting out at TikTok and Instagram videos

Evening Standard

Chuck D criticises use of Public Enemy song during LA fires

The Public Enemy frontman urged people to ‘pray for LA’.

Metal Hammer

"Snoop Dogg said he’d had over a billion streams and made less than $43,000 – that should scare the **** out of everyone." Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and more

Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions

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"Tupac stopped me from committing a murder." Public Enemy's Flavor Flav on the night Tupac Shakur talked him out of crushing a thief's skull with a fire extinguisher

Public Service Announcement: don't get caught stealing from Public Enemy

Louder

Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013

That time Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels fronted the ultimate rock supergroup

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