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'Don't believe the hype': Flavor Flav joins US Olympic bobsleigh team as official fan

Public Enemy's hypeman is swopping the stage for the snow after agreeing to join the US Olympic bobsleigh team as their loudest supporter during the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina. And perhaps he might provide the ultimate soundtrack for sliding through the snow.

Euronews · Oct 30, 2025

From the Stones to Cardi B, this college haunt has attracted big acts for 50 years

A Connecticut nightclub with a storied history is celebrating its 50th year in business

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2025

Former Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Now on FBI's Most Wanted List for Drug Trafficking, Murders

Ryan Wedding is also known by several aliases, including "El Jefe," "Giant," "Public Enemy," "James Conrad King," and "Jesse King." He is now among the FBI's most wanted

Latin Times · Mar 7, 2025

Fight the Power: rap pioneers Public Enemy book in Newcastle gig

It's part of their 35th anniversary On The Grid national tour.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 25, 2024

"Public Enemy gave the establishment something to fear, an intelligent, angry, politicised, uncompromising voice for disenfranchised black America." A beginner's guide to Def Jam Recordings in five essential albums

Def Jam is the most influential record label in hip-hip history. Here is your guide to its most significant releases

Louder · May 3, 2024

"You can hear Aphex Twin homages all over Hybrid Theory." Mike Shinoda: 10 songs that changed my life

From Public Enemy and Dr. Dre to Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against The Machine, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda guides us through the songs that helped make him a nu metal star

Metal Hammer · Apr 30, 2024

"Probably two percent of all photographers in those days were black", Normski recalls how he became the man with the golden shutter in the age of hip-hop

From its humble beginnings, Normski recorded the rise of hip-hop culture as it became a global phenomenon

Digital Camera World · Jan 11, 2024

Fifty years of hip hop

Its widely accepted birth date is 11 August 1973, when a now legendary party was thrown in a community room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, a tower block in the Bronx, New York. It was organised by Cindy Campbell, a Jamaican-born teenager, who charged 25 cents for ladies and 50 cents…

The Week · Sep 2, 2023

Public Enemy, Ice-T to headline free D.C. concerts, The National Celebration of Hip Hop

Hip-hop, the most popular genre in America, turns 50 this August

The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2023

"The N.W.A. attitude is we don't give a f**k": how Straight Outta Compton changed hip-hop, and then the world

Released on August 8, 1988, N.W.A.'s explosive debut album Straight Outta Compton remains one of the most powerful protest records ever

Louder · Aug 8, 2023