This week on The Library, Tim talks to Public Enemy frontman. Hip-Hop Legend. Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Roosevelt, Long Island's own Chuck D. In the interview Chuck D. talks to Tim about Hip-Hop modern vocabulary, why commercial radio is still important, the upcoming 20th anniversary of Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age and and his place and responsibility in hip hop culture.

Quotes from interview:

“Every word has its context. You can't ban a word. But once you start to say that in any public forum that the word all of a sudden becomes a one word anthem for a genre, a culture, and a people and every other situation comparably can't be said, there's an issue and there's a problem there. You know behind the word you have to figure out what counsel has endorsed, and financed, and branded this as marketing. If a word is just a word and anything goes, then why are there other words that you can not use? To have an anti-gay slur with the F-word, you know these same structures would come down on you. If you had an anti-Semitic word out there, the Jewish community would really come down heavy on you. If you have people who are all working within these realms of society, why would they even allow the N-word to go if they don't allow these other words to go.”

"I think the battle for me at this point is what can I say and do that I haven't done before that can stretch the envelope for the possibility for somebody else coming and just really nailing certain aspects. You know hearing your interview with Pharoahe Monch; to me, he's a dude that is able to take a seed and grow it into a forest."

"I want to hear a lot different voices. And I think that might come in the realm of a lot of women emcees."

"Music industry is healthy. Record industry has gutted itself out and has to replenish. And it's replenishing I think is in the digital realm that I think is long tail."
"in 1992 I made it in my mind to not sell records again....I would seriously be a record company's worst nightmare.....In 1992, I just said you know it's stupid to ask somebody to go asks somebody to go buy my record when they bought a record from me before."
"I just got to make sure my contribution to Hip-Hop in all service."
"I'm making songs to see if I can push envelopes to see if I can clear paths."