#hank shocklee

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Hank Shocklee *May 15, 1967

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Some images of early Public Enemy with Keith Shocklee, Chuck D, Pete Nice from upcoming “Spectrum City” documentary

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Public Enemy’s 4th studio album was released on 1 October 1991.

According to producer Hank Shocklee, the working tracks for the album were stolen, requiring the band to start from scratch (”We never really recovered after that,” Shocklee said).

Despite the lost music, Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black was a commercial and critical success, selling more than 1 million copies in the US and peaking at #4. It also ranked near the top of many “best of” lists for the year, including #2 in The Village Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop poll (behind Nirvana’s Nevermind.)

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Young Black Teenagers: “Tap The Bottle” (1992)

So I just learned that Young Black Teenagers (in which all members are white) are from Long Island, whom we don’t even mention or talk about. They were vetted by Public Enemy, Terminator X, and producer Hank Shocklee and only lasted throughout the first half of the Nineties. Aside from dedicating a single for the sole purpose of throwing darts at Madonna, their only claim to fame was the alcoholic-rap “Tap The Bottle”, a mix of boom-bap and three rapid-fire verses hat-tipping Black Sheep, A Tribe Called Quest, and knee-slapping 19th Century Christrian and Southern folk songs (“She’ll Be Comin' ‘Round Mountain” and  “Oh, Susanna” for anyone who cares to know).

Young Black Teenagers ended in 1994 but one member’s career didn’t: DJ Skribble. Since then, he’s produced Wyclef Jean and Lauren Hill’s albums, released several mix albums, and produced many shows on MTV. Last we heard, he had a dee-jay residency in Las Vegas.

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“It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back” (1988)

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Ebony & Ivory: Hank Shocklee & Paul Simon

One is the quintessential white, easy-listening artist from a middle-class Jewish background, the other a streetwise black who's best known for producing Public Enemy, the quintessential rap group that, some argue, attacks white, middle-class values. 

Scott Cohen arranged a meeting of two very different minds — Paul Simon's and Hank Shocklee's — at Simon's office in the Brill Building in New York, where the following conversation took place.