Chuck D To Enter Into The Publishing Business

12/27/2001 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
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(12/27/01, 4 p.m. ET) -- Public Enemy frontman Chuck D recently announced that he would be venturing into the publishing business in 2002. The rapper plans to launch Offta Books and Under The Radar Publishing through which he plans to release six to eight books a year.

On his website, publicenemy.com, Chuck D explained the business move: "I'm surrounded by a sea of Hipped Hopped writers like Harry Allen, Davey D, Professor Griff, Yusef Jah...yours truly. It is time...there's already a revolution in the word, whether it's street ciphers, prison, poets, web, so the void in hitting that mindset should be filled like independent record companies did for them in the late '80s and early '90s."

-- Yves Erwin Salomon, New York

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