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StewDio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D recreates format of his original art, combining three full-colour paperback bound books into a beautiful box set. The box set is the inaugural offering from Enemy Books, the new Akashic Books imprinted curated by Chuck D. Spanning the onset of COVID-19 through the first year of the Joe 'Bye-Don' administration, Chuck D lends his powerful artistic voice to one of the most tumultuous periods in American history, and puts it in a capsule. Like the neo-expressionist graffiti art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck D's energetic 'Naphic Grovels' marry text with drawings, commenting on contemporary events with the same activist instinct that propelled Public Enemy's 'music-with-a-message' reputation. His inventive, Amiri Barakaesque language and accompanying art is also occasionally used as a tool for introspection, providing unparalleled insight into one of the most important cultural figures of our time. Each journal follows a distinct period in Chuck D's (and America's) life; There's a Poison Goin' On chronicles the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, from February-April 2020; 45 Days of Red October follow the days leading up to and the aftermath of the historic 2020 election; and Datamber Mindpaper, which focuses on the early days of the Biden administration. No song may be more reflective of 1980s America than Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power;' no document may come to capture our COVID era like Chuck D's StewDio.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128621236402,"sku":"9781636141008","price":59.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781636141008_30173923-fb48-48de-8f64-4782d50b524e.jpg?v=1786023552"},{"product_id":"9781636141527","title":"Summer of Hamn","description":"In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhythmic, inventive writing and passionately raw art. He has long spoken out against gun violence, including how it intersects with rap and hip-hop culture. Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022 - a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death. In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made. Jaw-dropping statistics (40% of all personal guns in the world are owned by US citizens; there are 100 million more guns in the US than there are citizens) intersect with poetic reflections ('Another mall shooting seems normalized in Columbus \/ Raining outside in Ohio \/ Raining inside folks panic \/ Inside hearing shots bust'), all written in Chuck's hand over vibrant, utterly original, neoexpressionist ink and watercolour art. This book is the follow-up to STEWdio the debut trilogy on Chuck D's Enemy Books imprint, in which he invented a new medium - the 'naphic grovel' - a bound journal brimming with his observations and reflections of current events in both art and prose. Summer of Hamn is the second release on the imprint.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204699881650,"sku":"9781636141527","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781636141527_45d749f7-3a26-4f93-8ccb-33034cd3aeda.jpg?v=1786023564"},{"product_id":"9781636142043","title":"Interficial ARTelligence Moments That Met Me","description":"In interficial artelligence: moments that met me, Chuck D presents his encounters with some of his greatest heroes and other public figures. These seminal moments in Chuck D's life include: an editorial meeting with John F. Kennedy Jr.; presenting an award to Davie Bowie; being recruited by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to act in a film; eating chips and guac with Quincy Jones; being inducted into the Rock \u0026amp; Roll Hall of Fame by Harry Belafonte; lobbying on Capitol Hill with Anita Baker; musical collaborations with Prince, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu, and John Mellencamp; and visiting Mumia Abu-Jamal in prison. Chuck D says, 'For a Person like myself - an aged distance beyond a half century of life on Earth - I have experienced a vast array of People, Places \u0026amp; Things. The memories are always a looping swirl in my mind. I'm often asked about them and I consider myself a decent storyteller. As an illustrator, I'm able to recreate that point of view as I saw it. So Interficial ARTelligence: Moments That Met Me is a tale with images from my Perspective in a time when so many people listen with their eyes.' Chuck's beautiful illustrations and remarkable commentary also include his cross-pollinations with: music industry titans like Berry Gordy and Ahmet Ertegun; musical icons Madonna, the Notorious B.I.G., the Rolling Stones, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Mavis Staples, Michael Stipe, Ice Cube, Patti LaBelle, Lenny Kravitz, and LL Cool J; athletes Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Julius Erving, Barry Bonds, and Barry Sanders; entertainers\/actors Oprah Winfrey, Joan Rivers, Jeremy Piven, Dick Gregory, Robin Williams, Warren Beaty, Alec Baldwin, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, and Spike Lee; political figures like Angela Davis and Jesse Jackson; and many more.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926545355125,"sku":"9781636142043","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781636142043_b3d08b43-b36c-4162-abf6-ed9d0e76e01c.jpg?v=1786023578"},{"product_id":"9781636141749","title":"RAPilates","description":"LEGENDARY HIP-HOP ARTIST CHUCK D has been touring the world ever since his band Public Enemy put out their first album in 1987. Now, at age sixty-three, Chuck is frequently asked how he manages to still put on such high-energy performances. His response is simple: he practices Pilates, a form of exercise and body conditioning that has become increasingly popular over the last decade (though it was originally developed by Joseph Pilates in the early twentieth century). Chuck's appreciation for Pilates took a major leap in 2016 when he was setting out on a rigorous tour schedule with a powerful and energetic new band called Prophets of Rage (a supergroup including members of Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine). Over the next four years, the group would perform to more than two million people across the globe. As Chuck admits, he simply could not have delivered on such a massive level without his practice of Pilates, under the guidance of trainer Kathy Lopez. In RAPilates, Chuck and Kathy present an illustrated program of Pilates exercises for people of all ages, including the over-forty crowd. The volume includes introductions from both Chuck and Kathy, which are followed by more than thirty mat-based Pilates exercises that are carefully explained by Kathy and beautifully illustrated in Chuck's inimitable style that he has demonstrated in his previous books of visual art, including STEWdio and Summer of Hamn. Like those two books, RAPilates is published on Chuck's Enemy Books imprint, which is hosted by Akashic.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302000079221,"sku":"9781636141749","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781636141749_19cbd0bf-5392-4baf-b1a7-95dd2dd8bd8a.jpg?v=1786023570"},{"product_id":"9781905662760","title":"Livin' Loud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I was raised with an artist’s mentality; my first 25 years were spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music. Recently, I’ve reverted into the arts, combining all these elements in my work, still trying to change the world. 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This book is not an autobiography. It’s not a manifesto. It’s a razor-sharp investigation into hip hop and rap music by searing lyricist and global music icon Chuck D of Public Enemy.      Engaging with some of the world’s leading thinkers on hip hop, “Professor Chuck” sets out on a journey that celebrates fifty years of hip hop and charts paths forward for its future. Exploring the intersections of hip hop with Black radicalism and feminism, media and technology, and globalization and politics, this curated collection shows the power of culture and the arts not only to bring people together but to bring about political change in this current hour of chaos.    Features conversations with leading thinkers, including Robin D. G. Kelley, H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, Davey D, Scot Brown, Cheryl L. 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