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Happy Birthday to Chuck D, Born August 1, 1960

August 1, 2026 Albumism Staff
Photo: Emma McIntyre | Getty Images

Photo: Emma McIntyre | Getty Images

Please join the Albumism team in celebrating Chuck D’s musical legacy and revisit audio & video highlights from his career below!

Born: August 1, 1960
Biography | Readers’ Poll Results | Discography:

Public Enemy Studio Albums

Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987) | Read More
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) | Read More
Fear of a Black Planet (1990) | Read More
Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) | Read More
Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994)
He Got Game (Soundtrack) (1998) | Read More
There's a Poison Goin' On (1999)
Revolverlution (2002)
New Whirl Odor (2005)
How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? (2007)
Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp (2012)
The Evil Empire of Everything (2012)
Man Plans God Laughs (2015)
Nothing Is Quick in the Desert (2017)
What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? (2020) | Read More

Solo Studio Albums

Autobiography of Mistachuck (1996)
The Black in Man (2014)
If I Can't Change the People Around Me I Change the People Around Me (2016)
Celebration of Ignorance (2018)

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