Day One: 2024 Was 1984 Fafo

"[T]his book by the Public Enemy front man and accomplished graphic novelist does capture key moments on his path from Long Island deliveryman to hip-hop royalty. Each page typically features an ink-and-watercolor rendering of the person he met, along with some handwritten commentary . . . his renderings are remarkably accurate . . . An artful book." —Kirkus Reviews, on Interficial ARTelligence: The Moments that Met Me

FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF CHUCK D’S PREVIOUS "NAPHIC GROVELS" released on his Enemy Books imprint (hosted by Akashic), the rap legend and leader of Public Enemy introduces Day One: 2024 Was 1984 FAFO. This volume features Chuck’s beautiful illustrations with cutting—and often hilarious—commentary on the events of 2024, leading into the new world dystopian atmosphere of our present day. This is a stranger-than-fiction exploration of how the year 2024 mirrored and surpassed George Orwell’s frightening image of 1984.

CHUCK D is the leader and cofounder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, a social activist, multimedia producer, visual artist, digital music pioneer, and author/illustrator of STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D; Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism; RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age, and Interficial ARTelligence: The Moments that Met Me. 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.

• Publisher: Enemy Books
• Publish Date: July 07 2026
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions: 8 in H | 5 in W | 1 lb
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781636143033
• BISAC Categories: Graffiti & Street Art, Comics and Graphic Novels