20 Questions: Chuck D

November, 1990

20 Questions: Chuck DFrom its inception, rap was one of the most potent musical forms of the Eighties. At its slightest, it was filled with sexual braggadocio and almost obsessive self-absorption: The subject of most rap music was, in fact, rap music. But groups such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, who recorded "The Message," and Kurtis Blow, who hit the charts with "The Breaks," demonstrated that rappers could be articulate and stridently political.Public Enemy's...