Public Enemy’s Professor Griff Denies Connection To Dallas Shooter Does Public Enemy’s Professor Griff have a connection with the Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson ? According to TMZ the answer is HELL NO: Public Enemy’s Professor Griff is shutting down rumors he and Dallas shooter Micah Johnson were pals … saying a photo of the two shaking hands was only a one time thing. Social media exploded with the image Friday after the pic was uncovered on Johnson’s Facebook page. Griff tells TMZ he never knew Johnson personally and was shocked to see his own face pop up following the shooting. Griff says he’s been bombarded with vociemails and other messages from people threatening to kill him and his family since the pic surfaced. And get this … Griff tells us shortly after the image came up, he was contacted by his local cops for an interview. Griff says once he told the cops he only had the one chance encounter with Johnson, they let him off the hook. Welp!
Anyone else digging the #FightThePower jam playing during the #Oscars credits? pic.twitter.com/rpUFTt72UV — SheKnows (@SheKnows) February 29, 2016 Public Enemy Sounds Off On The Use Of “Fight The Power” At The Oscars According to TMZ , Public Enemy isn’t too keen on The Academy using their legendary protest song “Fight The Power” as Chris Rock’s intro music . Group member Professor Griff tells us he thinks the Academy was just paying lip service to black protesters and will go right back to business as usual. Griff says Public Enemy is all about change — radical change — and the Academy’s efforts fly in the face of that. He adds, “The show can’t claim the blackness of Public Enemy’s message.” Chuck D also weighed in with a series of tweets, but he doesn’t seem as upset about it as Griff #EverybodyDoesntHateChris pic.twitter.com/gKTyuoABIM — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 He did add however… The song FightThe Power is beyond me & the crew.The point of the song is a call to making change eventually not just applauding the thought — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 I dont wanna hear about Oscars being white. Oscar been white. We have need black communities to support our ARTS as much as we do sports IMO — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 We protested the grammies in 1989 because they HAD zero catagory for the genre. A 10 yr music at the time. It was for the entire artform-duh — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 Art speaking. Fight The Power. Make change.Demand respect. Do your own awards RIGHT & give indie artists & actors a chance to make a LIVING — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 People spend more time talkin about StacyDash while NOT even knowing who JulieDash IS when they can look her up in their attached phones-smh — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 Sadly, Public Enemy doesn’t even own the rights to license their song, so there’s nothing they can really do about it anyway. Image via Twitter
