Chuck D

SellaBand Partners With Chuck D for U.S. Launch

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 10, 2009 - 1:09pm.

New York - SellaBand, a Netherlands-based, fan-financed recordings site, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with hip-hop artist Chuck D's BTN Eastlink media company to launch North American operations, to be based in New York City. "SellaBand's business model takes music to a whole new level by linking fans directly to musicians and leveraging those relationships for the creation of new music," said Chuck D, frontman of legendary rap group Public Enemy. "It's an 'everyone wins' solution and is the new, new frontier and will completely redefine the way the music business operates."

Sportskool "Streetball" VOD to Feature Chuck D, And 1's Wailyy Dixon

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 3, 2006 - 5:01pm.

New York - Sportskool, a unit of Rainbow Media that develops sports-related video-on-demand and DVD programming, announced on Thursday that it has partnered with rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy) and And 1 streetball star Wailyy "Main Event" Dixon to create a streetball instructional VOD program. Shot on location at Behagen Park in the Bronx, the streetball VOD program launched today on Sportskool, which is available on cable systems including Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision and Charter.