- Paperback: 720 pages
- Published: 6/5/23
- IBSN: Signed Box Set
- Hardcover
- IBSN: Original Portrait and Signed Box Set
- Genre: Art/Music/Pop Culture
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STEWdio: Limited Edition Preorder
This page offers two LIMITED EDITION PREORDER options for STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D—one of which includes a priceless, one-of-a-kind original portrait of YOU by CHUCK D. STEWdio is the debut release of Chuck D’s new Enemy Books Imprint.
—Option 1. Choose the default option in the drop-down menu below for a $75 signed edition of the Box Set (only 500 available)
—Option 2. Choose the second option in the drop-down menu below for a $200 signed edition PLUS an original portrait of YOU by Chuck D (100 available. All orders are nonreturnable.)
THIS PAGE IS FOR THE LIMITED EDITION OPTIONS of STEWdio. For the unsigned, regular edition of the box set, please click here
All preorders will ship on or before June 5, 2023
What people are saying…
“The Public Enemy mastermind combines art and hip-hop rhymes to provide his compelling, personal views on the chaotic years between 2020 and 2022. Though they often feel like diary entries, each installment has an overarching storyline and theme . . . In an engaging, distinctly hip-hop style, Chuck D reveal important lessons from the early pandemic years.”
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review
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All orders will ship on or before June 5, 2023
Note, this page offers two limited edition preorder options for STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D. For the unsigned, regular edition of the box set, please click here.
IMPORTANT: There are two limited edition preorder options for STEWdio:
—Signed Box Set ($75.00). Choose the default option in the drop-down menu above for the $75.00 signed edition (only 500 available). STEWdio is comprised of three “Naphic Grovels” which marry text with drawings commenting on contemporary events: There’s a Poison Goin On! chronicles the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, from February–April 2020; 45 Daze of REaD Octobot 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 and America’s obsession with gadgets and screens.
—Original Portrait + Signed Box Set ($200.00, nonreturnable). Choose the second option in the drop-down menu above for a signed edition PLUS an original portrait of YOU by the great Chuck D in his inimitable style. These portraits are one-of-a-kind and nonreturnable, and there are only 100 copies available. If you purchase this option, email a photograph of yourself (and only yourself) to info@akashicbooks.com, and Chuck D will draw an original, impressionistic 5″ x 8″ portrait in the artistic style reflected in the pages of STEWdio. Think about it. A portrait of you. By Chuck D.
About STEWdio:
Legendary hip-hop artist and social activist Chuck D has used every opportunity in his groundbreaking career to stand up for civil rights. His rap group Public Enemy is widely regarded as a revolutionary act both in terms of its impact on hip-hop and its use of music to impart a message of race and class equality. The band emerged from the late 1970s/early ‘80s coalescence of rap, punk, and street art into hip-hop music culture on the East Coast. At the time, Chuck D had completed his BFA in graphic design, and while his music career exploded, his passion for visual art never left his heart.
In February 2020, he turned his gaze once again to the page, and began to fill three 5 x 8 journals with his written and drawn reflections of a world beginning to unravel. STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D recreates the format of his original art, combining three full-color 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 Baraka–esque 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 Daze of REaD Octobot follows 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.
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Chuck D is the leader and cofounder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, a social activist, multimedia producer, visual artist, and digital music pioneer. He has been featured in more than one hundred documentaries on music, technology, politics, and race, and cocurated the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. He has also been a national spokesperson for Rock the Vote, the National Urban League, Americans for the Arts, and the National Alliance of African American Athletes. As part of Public Enemy, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of StewDio and Summer of Hamn.