Chuck D has one of the crucial distinct and authoritative voices in Hip Hop, and now he’s been tapped to relate a brand new Audible collection known as Can You Dig It? A Hip Hop Origin Story.
The five-part Amazon collection explores the inception of probably the most worthwhile music style on this planet throughout the Seventies within the Bronx.
“December 8, 1971, was a defining moment in American history,” the Public Enemy legend says on the opening of the present’s trailer. “A time when the gangs of New York laid down their weapons and redirected their youthful energy towards the creative arts. Arts that would eventually become the foundation of what we now know as Hip Hop.”
The present itself facilities round how the homicide of Ghetto Brothers gang member and peacekeeper Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin led to gang members selecting to settle their variations peacefully by way of the Hoe Avenue peace assembly, which led to the delivery of Hip Hop after Kool Herc’s legendary Back to School get together in 1973.
Angelique Lenox, who’s the niece of Cornell Benjamin mentioned in a press release that she feels as if her uncle deserves to be talked about alongside Kool Herc in Hip Hop historical past particularly throughout its fiftieth Anniversary.
“If Kool Herc is considered the father of Hip Hop, then my uncle was the general; my uncle was the martyr,” Lenox mentioned. “He didn’t die in vain, something good came from his death; his life mattered. This is truly my best version of a love letter to my father and my family and I will not stop until his name is a part of the Hip Hop story.”
Influential figures on the time resembling former Black Panther and peacekeeper Joseph Mpa, authentic Hip Hop MC Coke La Rock, and famend photographers-documentarians Joe Conzo and Henry Chalfant will present historic accounts of the socioeconomic and environmental circumstances that led to the delivery of the storied artwork type.
The titles of every episode within the collection are: Episode 1: The Bronx is Burning, Episode 2: Old Enough to Die, Episode 3: The Three Trash Cans, Episode 4: Imagine, and Episode 5: From Hopeless to Hopeful. The collection will likely be launched on August 10 by way of Audible.
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Alongside narrating duties, Chuck D can be giving out flowers to a few of his fellow rappers. During an April episode of Drink Champs, the 62-year-old rapper praised each Eminem and Black Thought for being technologically gifted relating to rap.
“Eminem and Black Thought… big ups to Black Thought, The Roots, and also Eminem. Cyborgs, man,” Chuck mentioned beforehand. “They’re cyborgs, but let me tell you this: we can also get caught up ’cause you know, you got future generations, and then you got people who ain’t gonna even get on the register who are so dope.”
The “Fight The Power” rapper continued by praising Skyzoo as a dope lyricist, which prompted the Brooklyn MC to offer Chuck D his flowers on Instagram.
“The good word on a Sunday from the pastor of hip-hop, the legendary rhyme animal Chuck D,” Skyzoo wrote in response on the time. “An absolute icon. Honored x humbled x grateful to say the least. Thank you OG. The book I studied from as a young aspiring writer had chapters dedicated to your penmanship in it. I learned from you 1,000%. Salute OG.”
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