text:  We felt 14 years later it was a fitting similarity to what was happening right in front of our faces in 1988 and 89 in the United States and also what Spike was saying in this movie. Chuck D is the frontman of Public Enemy, a rap group which had emerged in the mid-80s during a highly volatile period of racial tension in New York. Public Enemy introduced a form of hip-hop that was politically radical and daring.