Tru Issue 25

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony;, it has the Hip Hop Gods Tour on it from 2012 which was a ground breaking tour and our first tour in a long time from East to West:- it has a little bit of the King of the Mic Tour that we did with LL and Ice Cube, De La Soul from 2013. The London Invasion from 1987, and “Welcome to the Terror Dome”, which is a documentary of Public Enemy done by Robin Pax Ru, and I think there is another one in there. I think it is “Where there is Smoke”. It really covers the 30 years of PE really well, which is important up to 2015. I am happy to be involved with it, and it comes with a split level distribution DVD that has some video sections and bit films. Those things are going on, trying to accent those. Tru: Are there current plans to take the Hip Hop God’s tour out on the road again? ChuckD: Well, Hip Hop Gods is on the web at hiphopgods.com, and it is a foundation for classic artists who record now as well as their past records. The website is very vibrant. It is commandeered by Flatline, who is in the Pacific Northwest, and he heads up Hip Hop Gods a as a site. He also has a 24 radio rap station called Hip

Hop Gods radio, and he does segments of shows that come on every Tuesday and a segment on the We Don’t Stop radio station, which is heavily imbedded in making our radio shows shine. Flatline makes it the only destination that will really pay attention to when an artist comes out and their fifteen or twenty year career and figuring out where that record should go now and where it should rotate. It will find a home on hiphopgods.com especially for an artist who considers themselves a legend in the rap community. On top of that, it is a foundation and the next plateau for that is touring. Ever since the first Hip Hop Gods tour in December 2012, there have been big plans. So, Hip Hop Gods brand had more aspect of the branding on the Kings of the Mic Tour with LL Cool J, De La Soul, Ice Cube and Public Enemy which was in summer of 2013. But the whole idea was to have three or four Hip Hop Gods tours at smaller levels with six or seven acts playing as a review across the country, working together on one or two busses, and being able to tour and play venues that were under a thousand people and being able to tour East to West and North to


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