Chris Doherty (pictured above) grew up in Morristown, New Jersey and during his teen years spent time in New York, working part-time as a bartender at legendary CBGB's on the Bowery. He hooked up with some fellow New York City area musicians to form "Gang Green", a band that achieved a temporary immortality as the unofficial mascot of the New York Jets, also known as "Gang Green". Chris and Gang Green are known for really bringing speed metal to the punk rock sound, expecially on their later releases, including 1995's "Older....Budweiser.".
Chuck D, real name Carlton Ridenhour, grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, 20 minutes' walk from the Green Line. Chuck grew up listening to the nightly jazz show 'Eric in the Evening' on WGBH and his father, a professor at Boston University, had him reading everything he could bring home from the library at the Department of African Studies, where he was an Associate Professor while Chuck was in high school. Chuck, of course, went on to found Public Enemy, hip-hop's major early group, and is now a radio commentator and host on Air America, which, oddly enough, is based in New York City.
Chuck has often complained that because Public Enemy was a Boston hip-hop group, it did not receive the media scrutiny that it would have received in New York, comparable to rock bands such as Gang Green and New York hip-hop crews like Gang Starr.
Gang Starr sounds a lot like Pete Rock + CL Smooth, in case you didn't really know.
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