Musicality of Poetry Festival: Chuck D., Professor Griff

“Fight the Power: Rap, Race and Reality” featuring Chuck D., Professor Griff and Scoop Jackson. An afterset includes a performance by Tree Roots and the Traveling Caravan. Chicago Reader ?Self-styled prophets of rage Public Enemy first garnered mainstream attention with their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

A decade later the seminal group’s original lineup has reformed–even deposed Minister of Information Professor Griff has signed on after eight years of exile for making anti-Semitic comments–and the group is poised to release a new album. Tonight Griff and lead rapper Chuck D will join hip-hop journalist Scoop Jackson in a discussion of rap, poetry, hip-hop, and music called Fight the Power–Rap, Race, and Reality, which also happens to be the title of Chuck D’s book. The event concludes the Guild Complex’s Musicality of Poetry Festival; a set by Tree Roots & the Traveling Caravan will follow.?