Brooklyn Vegan — The Treasure Island Music Festival returns to San Francisco on October 13 and 14, featuring an impressive line-up including The xx, M83, Joanna Newsom, Grimes, Public Enemy, SBTRKT, Divine Fits (who just played their first-ever show last night), Ty..... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Public Enemy at ATP NJ 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Chica Libre @ Barbes * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Jon Bibbs @ Joe's Pub * Daniel Higgs @ Zebulon *... more info

Guardian Music — Writing lyrics is an art and Ice-T's documentary gets inside the minds of some of the biggest names in his contact book, finds rapper TyMost people think rap is just a hobby some street dudes have – that we just improvise. What I liked most about t... more info

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Time — The rap influencers keep it old school on a new album—and that's a good thing more info

Consequence of Sound — They still know what time it is. more info

Prefix — Two NPR interns were recently bludgeoned by the internet after expressing controversial music opinions on NPR's "All Songs Considered" blog. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/features/public-enemy/npr-puts-the-intern-in-internet/... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — This track is taken from Public Enemy’s brand new album “Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp”, which is on iTunes now. It’s the first of two albums to be released this year by the group. The second, “The Evil Empire Of Everyt... more info

The Newsroom — Former Public Enemy rapper Chuck D. says Frank Ocean is not a hip-hop artist. Ocean recently admitted his first love was a man. more info

Guardian Music — Hammersmith Apollo, LondonIce-T was always among the most charismatic of hip-hop's early stars, but who knew he was also such an assiduous historian? The former gangster rapper has interviewed almost 50 of his peers to chronicle the history of the ge... more info