What do you think of Chuck D? He impresses me a lot. as a needed voice [View All]

[Armstead]

Chuck D, rapper from the group Public Enemy, and now a co-host on Air America in the mid-moring Unfiltered.

He's the kind of voice that's really needed. He seems adept at briding several of the divides in America, including the racial cultural gap and values gap between bling-bling and real politics.

I liked his songs like "Fight the Power" but I didn't know much about him personally. His music was always political, and had a power on a gut level. But I must admit, his image as an angry rapper made it difficult to appreciate him as an individual.

But I've become a real fan of him on Unfiltered. He's smart and -- unlike his angry image -- has a really great grasp of the human side of politics and society. And he seems like a real down-to-earth guy rather than some bling-bling star or rhetoric-spouting radical.