Chuck D

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour was born on August 1, 1960 in Roosevelt, New York. Better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American musician and producer. Chuck D helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the leader of the rap group, Public Enemy. Public Enemy revolutionized the hip-hop world with its political, social and cultural consciousness, which infused itself into skilled and poetic rhymes with raucous sound collages as a foundation.