Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???
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"I've been a spokesperson for a generation," Chuck D notes on "Long and Whining Road," a proud fact whose modest past tense suggests why these commercial has-beens still make terrific albums. Chuck has nothing to prove and plenty to say. Flavor Flav is the funniest rapper ever to bamboozle VH1. And their young guitar-bass-drums "baNNed" slams their conscious points down.

Rolling Stone, Sept. 6, 2007