Livin' Loud: ARTitation

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About the Author: Chuck D, born Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, is an American rapper, activist and founding member of the iconic hip-hop group, Public Enemy. In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made.

He goes on to share his journey into the world of hip-hop, a genre that he helped to curate, cut through and form. I was raised with an artist’s mentality; my first 25 years were spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music.It was the medium he turned to when his father died in 2016, it helped him look inward and find peace. With a foreword by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and featuring over 250 of Chuck D's paintings, sketches and drawings, Livin' Loud includes a commentary of over 13,000 words in which he offers unprecedented insight into his life and work. In an engaging, distinctly hip-hop style, Chuck D reveal important lessons from the early pandemic years. While some people might have decided to go out to a club or the hotel bar, I turned my room into an art studio.

Recently, I’ve reverted into the arts, combining all these elements in my work, still trying to change the world. In the last six years, I've reverted back into the arts, combining all of these elements in my work, still trying to change the world. And we don’t just mean a musical artist, although the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has certainly made his mark in that field . Like the neo-expressionist graffiti art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck D’s energetic “Naphic Grovels” marry text with drawings, commenting on contemporary events with the same activist instinct that propelled Public Enemy’s “music-with-a-message” reputation.Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022-a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death. The latest edition of the Yogyakarta biennial explores ‘Titen’, a Javanese word for the art (or science? For nearly four decades, rapper, social activist, multimedia producer, and visual artist Chuck D and his group Public Enemy have been an Afrocentric and revolutionary voice in hip-hop.