Livin' Loud: ARTitation

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The book launch coincides with the launch of Chuck D’s new PBS/BBC documentary, Fight The Power: How Hip-Hop Changed The World.

His book is the culmination of a string of his exhibitions appearing at Gallery 30 South, Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects Gallery and Adelphi University.Morello’s not-entirely-unbiased assertion that Chuck D is ‘as gifted a visual artist as he is a microphone master’ turns out to be pushing it somewhat, but he’s fluent and Livin’ Loud is additionally a multidirectional surprise, riding not only on political consciousness and Black pride but also qualities one might not immediately expect from this famously stentorian rapper, not least intimacy, tenderness and nostalgia. How long should R Kelly spend in prison -and does a USA system give a man a chance for a man to change his world around?

The Deluxe Edition features a set of numbered prints depicting three iconic hip-hop groups: Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and Run-DMC.StewDio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D recreates format of his original art, combining three full-color paperback bound books into a beautiful box set. In an engaging, distinctly hip-hop style, Chuck D reveal important lessons from the early pandemic years. The founder of Public Enemy uses hip-hop rhymes and art to express his persuasive, in-depth opinions about the turbulent years between 2020 and 2022. What made the connection between Temple and Chuck D possible was Akashic’s track record of publishing diverse subjects (the house mission is the “Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World”), and Temple’s shared connection with him through music.

His lyrics are now considered some of the greatest of all time, and Chuck remains a pioneer in rap music. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you.And he interprets everything, from the raw pain of mass shootings to climate change, to the war in Ukraine to the Black Lives Matter movement. The band emerged from the late 1970s/early ‘80s coalescence of rap, punk, and street art into hip-hop music culture on the East Coast.

Livin’ Loud: ARTitation, a coffeetable book whose punning, brow-furrowing subtitle clearly flowed from the same pen as album titles like Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994), showcases approximately 250 examples of his predominantly greyscale pen-and-wash art, accompanied by enough annotation and reminiscing to constitute a compact autobiography, though also enough polemic to situate it in the present. He studied graphic design as a college student at Adelphi University in the 1980s before his wildly successful musical career took center stage as Public Enemy became international superstars. Several of these sketches, which he says he did at “courtroom speed,” comprise Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D (June), the first release from the Enemy Books imprint he is curating at Akashic Books. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Chuck D’s style can be described as neo-expressionistic, with images and text often intertwined (not entirely unlike famed graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, for example). 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. 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.