Wiki sez his best selling solo album was released in ‘97. I wouldn’t know as I lost interest in rap/hip-hop some years before then. The gangsta thing killed my interest. Chuck D has become the worst sort of bore, but the early Public Enemy albums were good.
I lost interest in Hip Hop and Ska when it all morphed into Gangsta rap.
Hip Hop and Ska were Ok in the 80s
They are dead now, and Gangsta rap has become a monster.