{"product_id":"stewdio-the-naphic-grovel-artrilogy-of-chuck-d-9781636141008","title":"STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D","description":"\u003cp\u003eChuck D (Public Enemy  Prophets of Rage  etc.) brings his personal insights and social critiques to the page in fierce  passionate  and evocative visual art and prose \"The Public Enemy mastermind combines art and hip-hop rhymes to provide his compelling  personal views on the chaotic years between 2020 and 2022. Though they often feel like diary entries  each installment has an overarching storyline and theme . . . In an engaging  distinctly hip-hop style  Chuck D reveal important lessons from the early pandemic years.\" Kirkus Reviews  Starred Review Legendary hip-hop artist and social activist Chuck D has used every opportunity in his groundbreaking career to stand up for civil rights. His rap group Public Enemy is widely regarded as a revolutionary act both in terms of its impact on hip-hop and its use of music to impart a message of race and class equality. 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. At the time  Chuck D had completed his BFA in graphic design  and while his music career exploded  his passion for visual art never left his heart. In February 2020  he turned his gaze once again to the page  and began to fill three 5 x 8 journals with his written and drawn reflections of a world beginning to unravel. 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. The box set is the inaugural offering from Enemy Books  the new Akashic Books imprinted curated by Chuck D. Spanning the onset of COVID-19 through the first year of the Joe \"Bye-Don\" administration  Chuck D lends his powerful artistic voice to one of the most tumultuous periods in American history  and puts it in a capsule. Like the neo-expressionist graffiti art of Jean-Michel Basquiat  Chuck Ds energetic \"Naphic Grovels\" marry text with drawings  commenting on contemporary events with the same activist instinct that propelled Public Enemys \"music-with-a-message\" reputation. His inventive  Amiri Barakaesque language and accompanying art is also occasionally used as a tool for introspection  providing unparalleled insight into one of the most important cultural figures of our time. Each journal follows a distinct period in Chuck Ds (and Americas) life; Theres a Poison Goin On chronicles the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic  from FebruaryApril 2020; 45 Daze of REaD Octobot follow the days leading up to and the aftermath of the historic 2020 election; and Datamber Mindpaper  which focuses on the early days of the Biden administration. No song may be more reflective of 1980s America than Public Enemys \"Fight the Power;\" no document may come to capture our COVID era like Chuck Ds STEWdio. full-color illustrations throughout\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600506322997,"sku":"ByrdShop_1636141005","price":40.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781636141008.jpg?v=1790972861","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/stewdio-the-naphic-grovel-artrilogy-of-chuck-d-9781636141008","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}