Chuck D Explains "So-Called Chosen Frozen, Still They Got Me Like Jesus" Line (Part 10)

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In this clip, Chuck D speaks about Public Enemy releasing "Fear of a Black Planet," which was produced by the Bomb Squad in the same 12-week period as Ice Cube's "Amerikkka's Most Wanted" and Bel Biv Devoe's "Poison." Chuck went on to speak about the lead single, "Welcome to the Terrordome," where he had a line with the n-word, which is rare, while addressing the person who killed Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton.
During the conversation, Chuck D also spoke about giving Flavor Flav the title for the song "911 is a Joke," and Flav coming back with a song. To hear more, hit the above clip.

[@Daroola415]

Man, Chuck D is a hiphop encyclopedia. He's probably forgotten more about hiphop than most folks will ever know.

[@ivankanoszlopi5764]

Facts

[@mklockley]

Chuck talks everybody listens.

[@geralthoster6286]

Vlad, if someone talks about having some of the last conversations with Huey Newton, and you pivot and ask them about the N word, you gotta get your priorities checked.

[@ronsworld250]

Agreed 100%. I wrote a scathing critique of Vlad during his interview with the great Craig Hodges. Hodge would be talking about some deep, passionate things and instead of Vlad allowing Hodge to elaborate and expound he would go right back ‘on script’ and ask some safe, boring, mundane topic instead of hitting Hodge with follow-up questions to one of his passionate ideas. Same thing with Chuck. What you spoke with Huey P Newton in his last days? Please, please elaborate and tell us more. Instead Vlad is fascinated with Chuck using the N-word. Anyone who knew what happened to Mr. Newton understood and even felt that the addition of this term was far from endearing, when describing this POS dude.

[@retroesso]

Geralt Hoster that’s true!!!!!!!

[@pentz1]

@Kill Monger Guys, why would you even think Vlad would care about that...just because you are about exploiting black culture in a capitalistic environment, doesn't mean you are about educating and empowering black culture. We should never forget that

[@blackturkdog]

i think Vlad like to keep the interviews on topic. Bob Costas does that too from time to time. Don Lemon as well.

[@blackturkdog]

huey was messed up in his last few years. drugs, pimping, violence.

[@Nigmatics]

Younger folks: If you take the time out to read the lyrics to “Welcome to the Terrordome” you will realize the genius that is Chuck D. It’s an incredibly written lyrical masterpiece that still resonates til this day.

[@arizonachronicsmoker]

Thanks these clips have me seriously checking out public enemy... very insightful music

[@kevinkidd7211]

Word👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

[@stacytaylor3233]

Everything about the song to the hook is all pertaining today times

[@chistability5405]

Welcome To The Terrordome and Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos my favorite PE songs

[@earthcitizen3939]

My favorite PE songs are probably Prophets of Rage and Night of the Living Bassheads.

[@ronsworld250]

I could sit and listen to Chuck talk all day. Love the man’s integrity re: not wanting to step in front of the camera like many musicians who are not actors want to do. For him to say that he is a musician and not a trained actor and feel that he is or was taking away from a trained actor speaks volumes about the man. He was interested in staying in his lane and helping to develop and grow rap/hip-hop into all it could be. This man is a bona fide legend!!!

[@alescalante491]

Chuck D had some balls with that “chosen frozen” line coming off the Griff controversy! Terrordome is PE’s greatest track!

[@alescalante491]

Wize One If you tell someone who is Jewish that they were the reason that Jesus was crucified, they take it extremely personal and insulting. But calling them the “so called chosen” was a bigger insult. But I get what you are saying.

[@lethal5flow679]

@Wize One Its the "So called chosen" that pissed of the Jews, they may have took "Crucifixion aint no fiction" as a shot too.

[@d0cn0tes]

yeah that was one of the best soci-political lines in hip hop history. When I heard it back then, I said , Dam, no he didn't lol

[@jondabaptist8239]

@@alescalante491 Again SO-CALLED

[@smokedowa2632]

This is probably Vlad's first ever 'hip hop' interview. No "so tell me the wildest thing you've seen in the streets" . Very enjoyable.

[@369pendulum]

Lol he's interviewed MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane & Kool G Rap.... So no it's not his first hip hop interview, he's just not that great of an interviewer.

[@king4916]

@Smoke Dowa.... Word!!!

[@smokedowa2632]

Pre Law kinda my point. Interviewing Boosie is just as hip hop as Chuck D. The subject matter this time around was strictly hip hop as opposed to street ish....oh and ur album

[@369pendulum]

@@smokedowa2632 Trust i know what you mean, Chuck D is too important of a figure to get the basic vlad questions

[@kevinkidd7211]

True!!!

[@edupbeat]

“I got so much trou-ble on my mind...I refuse to lose...here’s your ticket! Hear the drummer get wicked”

[@kevinkidd7211]

Epic

[@donaldpace9033]

Nice

[@coopersiii]

Man...folks don’t know. Welcome to the Terrordome still gets regular rotation. Pound for pound including all eras of hip hop, this joint still rocks the hardest in my opinion

[@DLM323]

Damn, Chuck is amazing he articulates it all so well!

[@garfieldharrison510]

I love how Chuck D. doesn't try to take credit for anything.. He respects the music so much that his humility always comes through. I enamour him for that. He breaks down the origins of the levity in music so fastidious.

[@assadghani3867]

Fear of a Black Planet is one of the finest accomplishments in recorded music history, I'll just say that.

[@earthcitizen3939]

Only Nations is a better Public Enemy album, Fear of a Black planet is at second IMO.

[@Lppolymath90]

I love how Chuck controls the tempo of the interview... He's actually neutralizing Vlad's unilateral methodology of dominating the narrative.

[@KayDee215]

Glad, Chuck D first used the n-word in "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"...then used the sample on "Anti-N Machine" on the next album

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

“Now I called 9-1-1 a long time ago”

[@majikman73]

Yep. Where you young kats at? Check out "Welcome to the Terrordome" by Public Enemy when y'all get the chance. Straight up black out riot music yo!

[@stanspliff92]

Come on down!

[@duffman1876]

I'm def gunna give a listen haha I just heard their debut album😎

[@timothyshepherd4099]

This is a great interview, I love how Vlad asks a question and Chuck schools us all. He is like a hip-hop sage

[@retroesso]

Glad we needed that Huey story!!!!

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

Wowwwww 🤯🤯🤯 Had NO idea the Bomb Squad did POISON

[@r.rivera3507]

Me neither. I know they sampled Kool G Rap though.

[@makosfishwater9562]

I learned that a few years ago and I had no clue. Thank you internet.

[@laurencesalvary15]

They didn’t produce the song Poison, but they produced songs on the album.

[@king4916]

Great interview. Chuck is a hip hop gem!!!

[@eugeneferguson5987]

I use the lyrics of Welcome to the Terrordome to show teens today how rap used to be. One verse says more (and probably has more words) than most rap singles today.

[@R0jira]

I GOT SO MUCH TROUBLE ON MY MIND/REFUSE TO LOSE/HERE'S YOUR TICKET/HEAR THE DRUMMER GET WICKED! ~ iconic

[@charlesjohnson1574]

“Molly Percocet “

[@Apocalyptes]

I can listen to this man talk all day...

[@andrewilliams4180]

Me too

[@RapFanatic4ever]

Chuck D is one of them I could listen to talk all day . Besidez Pac and Biggie .Legends never die

[@nitomutan4593]

Ok so now that everybody acknowledged the fact that Flav wrote “911 is a joke”, one would consider how dope the record was, flow wise and lyrics wise. You would imagine that rapped by Nas or Snoop it would appear as ahead of its time as it actually is. Mind you, it was 1990. And production wise, it was very innovative too, with the slap-bass and the low-fi funky lick.

[@CEENAS646]

Word. The video is a classic too, the guy shivering on the ground through the whole vid because 911 didn't come is timeless. But I knew Flav was cold from "Flavor Flav Cold Lampin"..that shit is ill

[@overstandinggod3410]

It's blasphemous that DJ Red Alert hasn't been interviewed yet, after hundreds of Vlad's guest keeps mentioning him.

[@overstandinggod3410]

I feel sorry for the rest of Amerikkka, y'all don't know that if it wasn't for DJ Red Alert... Hip-Hop wouldn't be as big as it is! Red Alert got robbed by Hot97 by putting Funk Master Flex as the primary DJ for NY, then they bought out 98.7Kiss and turned it into an R&B station just to eliminate the potency and effectiveness that DJ Red Alert created. Name one DJ who is better than Red Alert, and you have to be a credible person that was there to be able to speak on it!

[@jeywright2786]

I concur! The Prop-Master is a straight up legend. He was there on the front row at the creation of Hip-Hop.

[@r2g210]

Could it be that maybe Red Alert doesn’t want to do a Vlad interview?

[@esco200106705]

back in the day red alert was on 98.7 and marley marl was wbls. they used to go at it. breaking the latest records. i always rode with red alert. never missed his show. hitting the record button on my box to tape his show and bring it to school the next day. red alert is a living legend. respect

[@ComicPower]

Listening to Chuck is the best lesson in hip hop history you can give yourself

[@writerjcking]

Bro if anybody don’t rock with chuck d, you don’t understand what a teacher is. Him and Krs are just two of many that still have me looking at rhyme schemes and following the history of logic or their schools of thought.

[@bcrudup1]

Chuck D: I talked to Huey Newton every Night. Vlad: Was that your first time using the N-Word in a song? You fumbled this one Vlad.

[@MikeJones-pf4wd]

Suprised Vlad didn't ask Chuck about "Pollywannabeacracka" on Fear of a Black Planet 🏊

[@jessehedrick3252]

Chuck aka the hard rhymer is legendary and the voice of PE! A true lyricist that speaks on injustice and other issues. Salute ✊

[@tremunique6149]

Welcome 2 The Terror Dome is the all time best rap ever written and executed. 👑💪🏾✊🏽

[@svh01]

The more i listen to Chuck D talk, the more i realize how he's loved and respected by the Hip Hop community. Not ONE bad said about him nor does he have anything bad to say.

[@earthcitizen3939]

He's smart as hell, which you can see in the lyrics.

[@logicbk]

Is the 2 - 3 Break song Chuck is talking about I’m Large with Cool Chip and Chuck Chillout?

[@MrSimZOldSchoolRev]

Favourite PE song Welcome to the Terradom... the song is deep and had a crazy effect on me... love it

[@MrSimZOldSchoolRev]

Cold Lamping with Flav, Night of the Living Baseheads, Bring the Noise, Can't Truss it, Brothers Gonna Work It Out... could go on and on.. PE my hero's.

[@ronsworld250]

Cliff Simz Baseheads is one of my favorite tracks. Loved that the opening shot in the video was right outside the Audubon theatre. Damn, Chuck’s lyrics were right in your face.

[@maskedsports2354]

Cool it now by New Edition came out way before poison which had rap in it

[@SM0K13Z]

Chuck D sounds like mc eiht after he released blunt smoke

[@marvincooke7784]

Chuck you need to drop some info from Dr. Amos Wilson's book Blueprint for Black Power on your next album. The people need to hear it.

[@dodgedart4sho]

Welcome to the terrordome is top 5 all time for me, again Chuck dropped a bag of jewels

[@noelwright8740]

chuck D is on the top ten all time interviewed , he know how to answer questions.

[@esco200106705]

top 1 if the criteria is dropping jewels

[@mdeborah827]

Chuck D! I remember meeting you at WBAI at The Commons. It was quick b/c I was studying DuBois' Black Reconstruction in America with this man,Tim, whose family were enslaved in NY when it was Dutch. My head was swimming w/details.

[@antbanks1261]

"Poison" is the debut single by the American vocal group Bell Biv DeVoe. ... The song was written and produced by Elliot Straite, AKA Dr. Freeze. Straite had originally planned to ... Producer(s): Elliot Straite Released: February 24, 1990 Genre: New jack swing, funk, hip hop Recorded: October 1989

[@antbanks1261]

Leaves me confused...because in the bel biv devoe doc says different as to who produced "Poison"

[@cheesun124]

Spiderman and freeze in full effect

[@mc365mc]

I'm more of a "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" guy as far as favorite PE albums. Most likely cause I lived about 5 miles away from where PE was formed and recorded their albums. I went to the same High School as fat Dr Dre (of MTV Raps) who at that time was a College Radio DJ playing all PE stuff first on his underground station. Public Enemy #1 when that came on the first time that beat was crazy! Then Timebomb! All the intros by Flav was crazy and then the beat drops. Now imagine those songs before their was rap music everywhere and you heard them as the DJ qued them up for the first time on radio and keeps teasing it bring it back to the beginning and restarting it before the beat drops in. It was like flex dropping the bomb in the 90's but this was like 86. Man hip hop was so much better when it wasn't everywhere and artist where all different.

[@macdabluepanther]

Chuck D is definitely of the Goats of HIP-HOP

[@christophersanders2280]

Why is the volume on your videos always so low?

[@chainfree]

Vlad, Please correct this video. My brother Dr. Freeze wrote and produced Poison for BBD. That was the title of their album. First single and still earning money to this day. The Bomb squad had some tracks on that album but that didn't compare to the title track Poison. When the song starts they even mention "Spidaman and Freeze in Full Effect". I am surprised Chuck D didn't correct you on that. Great interview. I just wanted to let you know that you was wrong.

[@marselluswallace6597]

Can't go wrong with a Chuck D interview. Would love to sit and listen to Chuck D, Jimmy Jam, Quincy Jones and Michael Eric Dyson have a conversation

[@AxeMan808]

Why were these released over a 10 day period? Is it FINISHED yet?

[@HamzaDavis]

2, 3 Break? Wow Chuck! You made me stop this video and go back down memory lane. Now I'm off to annoy the nieces and nephews to teach them how to do knee spins on linoleum.

[@need-to-know-]

Vlad, for a self proclaimed DJ, you seem very ignorant of everything hip hop that Chuck D was bringing out. Don't know about DJ records, don't know about R&B and hip hop connections at the time, don't know that Chuck said "ninja" in every album up to Fear of a Black Planet, and even insisted on it. Damn dude.

[@Flowofwisdom]

At the end, Chuck D was like, I didn’t create it but I was there

[@trh917]

Drove from PA to Rhode Island when Fear of a Black Planet came out. Had it on HEAVY Rotation that whole week. Drove through Boston and all, still on rotation. Lol.

[@CedRockStarr]

Vlad this one of best interviews. I hope Chuck is willing to come back and be a regular.

[@ChristopherNealBUSHIDO49ERS]

What a fantastic personality!

[@LeoGains]

Did Chuck D ever have beef with another rapper? If not, that is a testament to his ethics.

[@appollosharris4350]

I remember the CBS Morning news interview of that line.

[@leseanwalston7916]

This dude is like the Stephen Hawking/Einstein of Hip Hop lol 💯

[@Stanlayy-em4fk]

Chuck D and E-40 gotta be long lost relatives.

[@r2g210]

Not mentioned in this interview but The Bomb Squad also did the score for American Gangster with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe

[@MrHarris73]

I saw an interview with Johnny "Juice" Rosado and he said that Chuck did the scratches on Terrordome. Chuck does it all.

[@earthcitizen3939]

Yeah, I remember that one. Juice is over-looked in the history of Public Enemy, even though he was the better scratcher - which is F'ed up.

[@Nobody_else_but_me]

Cool lamping with flav

[@keithchambers6787]

Bobby Brown merged rap n r&b on Don't Be Cruel in 88, Teena Marie merged the 2 in 81 on Square Biz

[@tonybiggs.the.illiest]

Blonde did it first "rapture"..new edition also did it even confunkshun did before Bobby brown

[@keithchambers6787]

@@tonybiggs.the.illiest your right but i didn't say they did it first, was just correcting Vlad on the Poison point by BBD, but i like that you know your stuff playa

[@deshaundozier]

Facts

[@keithchambers6787]

@Jamal Vines again, not saying who did it 1st, Vlad said Poison was one of the 1st records to combine rap& r&b, i just mentioned a couple of songs that came just a tad earlier than Poison...calm down playa...Lol

[@keithchambers6787]

@Jamal Vines didn't think i was backtracking but ok, but i pass on the homework, you sound as if you need a hug or something bro...not that serious

[@soultheinterrogator]

Chuck used the N word in black steel in the hour of chaos from it takes a nation

[@ssbabymoses4758]

anti-nigga machine

[@BC-gn1vo]

I wonder why an atheist like Glad would be concerned THAT one line. 🤔 🧐

[@GameOnRadio1]

I think because he is still of Jewish decent

[@BC-gn1vo]

GameOnRadio! Sounds about right.

[@dawolf856]

It's was a dope fucking line ! Resonates.... supposed to ask. FIT EXACTLY for the time it came out.

[@BC-gn1vo]

Da Wolf No Diggitty, NO DOUBT... but notice how as soon as Glad asked, Chuck immediately said “Yeah. One of MANY dope lines” & redirected to another dope line (& one of thee most IMPORTANT lines regarding Huey P). The WHOLE song is line after line of Hip-Hop History in its PUREST FORM. As much “homework” as Glad usually does, I’m sure he’s seen or heard that particular Q & A. I’m kinda surprised Chuck didn’t go into Jesus’ complexion being manipulated into something other than what it really was like he used to when asked this question. 🤨 It’s all good though. Those who know, KNOW. 😎

[@ronsworld250]

Bryce Clemons Classic track, classic album. This and all their albums opened up my eyes 👀 to so many things. I lived in a predominantly white neighborhood and I still remember as a 21 year Junior in college working out in my parent’s basement and pumping Fear of a Black planet and my next door neighbor a middle aged Italian man looking at me funny after hearing what I was listening to. Yep, there was an awakening going on in me.

[@kielhall8363]

P.E Brother ✊🏿🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@r.rivera3507]

You hear this nut trying to tell Chuck D something about Rap history?🙄

[@steveshowtime]

Gives the history

[@undertheaffluence280]

Chuck D is a societal essential worker

[@countdownvideos]

Chuck D is a genius ...there are only a few in hip hop

[@samuelbillups804]

💯🖤💪🏽

[@damedame712]

welcome to the terrordome..man listen...that song right there is 1st my favorite pubic enemy record and ill call top 5 greatest rap record..period..SAID ILL FIGHT THE POWER CAN I RUN AND HIDE...BULLSHIT IT"LL BE SUICIDE..so many lines on that record to quote from...INCREDIBLE

[@artcs]

Vlad forgot about 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos' "This is what I mean, an anti-n**** machine"

[@melvinwren]

the way he mentioned "the Poison record" in one of the other parts, and then mentioned it again the same way....i swear i thought they was talking about "Open Up and Say Ahhh!!!!" lol....not exactly sure which poison record they talking about, i figured out its a song title and not a band lol. discogs says poison - bell biv devoe (1990) on MCA records. says the remixed the song. i was 2 years old...i know what new jack swing is, but maybe it has a bigger context than im aware of.

[@sidcrudupjr]

Maaannn....Chuck is a music encyclopedia.

[@kyser3ify]

Chuck was mad when he wrote that. Glad was like what's up with that so called chosen line, Chuck was like what about it.

[@cwest394]

Wish all the 80's rappers would stand up and start marching to d.c. Can you imagine how many millions of people would follow them. We would change the world before we even got there.

[@brudderstyles3479]

Funny how chuck kept cutting vlad off to avoid vlads fanboy questions he's heard 1000x before and interrupting and schooling vlad immediately when he start rewriting history

[@quantonsmith357]

War at 33n 3rd..Chuck went Off!!

[@earthcitizen3939]

I like hardcore punk-rock, that song has a tempo of hardcore punk rock songs, compare it to Minor Threat for example.

[@landismithCOJ]

Samuel L Jackson was in 911 Is A Joke. He was probably thinking "How many motherfucking times do we have to keep doing mothefucking retakes??!?!"

[@lilOdawgOzoneM.ialien]

✊🏾

[@notrealy180217]

I know everyone already knows this but Huey from the Boondocks is named after Newton.

[@justintime8922]

Those two albums alone altered hip hop and the world forever

[@jesseleverett1057]

Public Enemy #1 is my favorite song from them.

[@MYTMIC]

I blame the interviewer, he's literally asking Chuck questions he's answered years ago

[@TheSPORTS504]

Chuck never tells him thank you after compliments, he see through him lol

[@reimourrpower9357]

*Chuck D! The Enemy telling youto hear it. They play my music, it's time to play the lyrics...*

[@howardthemaker001]

I still can't believe Vlad was a DJ cause he doesn't know about a lot of rap history.

[@flash1506]

Turn it up....turn me loose!

[@byronspears9395]

6:50-6:56 reminds me of the quote from Mark Twain which goes like this: Religion is like going into a black room looking for a black cat that isn't there but finding it. Brilliant😜

[@anthonythegreat72]

Samuel L. Jackson's in 911 video.

[@thegreg4]

Wauw these 3 albums made in 12 weeks, and poison produced by the bomb squad didn’t knew that.

[@eklypzn]

I feel like Vlad isn't use to an interview this easy. It's also weird hearing Huey's name without the P.

[@byrondavies9221]

2, 3 Break by B Boys is a classic. Vintertainment was a great label.

[@stanspliff92]

Word also Joe-ski Love lol pee wees dance. My first rap record, I was like 5 or 6.

[@byrondavies9221]

@@stanspliff92 yeah Do The Pee Wee Herman. I was about 12 or 13 when that dropped.

[@perrygibson8419]

Can't forget Levert and Heavy D

[@d0cn0tes]

Chuck is the only person in rap who could spit 64 bars without taking a breath.

[@leokizzo3515]

Why does it say online Poison was produced and written solely by a guy named Elliot Straite

[@laurencesalvary15]

Leo Kizzo it was produced by Spider-Man and Dr. Freeze. The Bomb Squad produced some other songs on the album but not Poison or Do Me.

[@modoe6619]

Classic fuckin album

[@robertl.pinkney9187]

Chuck D sounds like an east coast version of MC Eiht

[@strictlyhiphop4121]

I've been sayin' since April 1990- Fear of a Black Planet > It Takes A Nation

[@pappagetti]

R.I.P. Huey Newton... Bay Area niggas are just way cooler than everybody else... Fact.

[@mayday0341]

Dropped "the N word" in Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos. Welcome to the Terrordome was not the first instance.

[@ninossoul6806]

Vlad ask Chuck D if he had a relationship with Huey Newton and the way Chucks looks at him😂 No words neccessary😂 Check it out 3 minutes 50 seconds in

[@RogzielTheAntistar]

big up to vincent davis i know him.