Carlton Ridenhour (natural August 1, 1960), best known per pseudonym Chuck D, is a rapper, composer, actor, creator, radio personality & producer. Chuck was natural around Long Island, New York, USA. He helped farther 1980s political rap music as the controversial & influential lead rapper of Public Enemy.

When graduating from either Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, Chuck went to Adelphi University in Long Island, New York. When you took his rap career, he helped word to the black consciousness.

Ridenhour besides contributed (when Chuck D) to many episodes of the PBS documentary series The Blues.

Since 2000, he has been one of the virtually all vocal supporters of Internet music file sharing in the music industry.

Chuck has been progressively included politically. He co-hosted Unfiltered on Air America Radio, he has testified before Congress about P2P, and was exposed inside the 2004 rap political convention.

He continues to exist as an activist, publisher, lecturer, and producer. He is the co-writer of the essay book Fight a Power: Rap, Race, & Reality, along by using Yusuf Jah (ISBN 0385318685) and director Spike Lee.

He loaned his voice to Grand Theft Auto San Andreas as DJ Forth Right MC for the radio-station Playback FM

In June 5, 2005, Chuck D returned to Air America Radio with a freshly indicate, On The Real.

Discography

sustaining Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush The Show (1987) It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) Fight the Power...Live! (video and album, 1989) Fear of a Black Planet (1990) ''Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) Greatest Misses 1986-1992 (1992) Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994) He Got Game (1998) BTN 2000'' (online discharged mega-mix which initialized PE's allowing Def Jam records) (1999) ''There's A Poison Goin On (1999) Revolverlution (2002) There's A Poison Goin On (worldwide re-release via Slamjamz.com) (2004)

He too brought out the super soulful 1996 solo record, The Autobiography of Mistachuck (in Mercury Records) and founded a record company Slam Jamz.

using Fine Arts Militia: Fine Arts Militia'' (2003)

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