Believe the hype: Public Enemy plays at wedding

A famous group that hadn’t performed in four years did so at a unique setting last weekend: A wedding in Dayton.

Members of Public Enemy attended and performed at the wedding of Robin Dugger and group member Norman “D J Terminator X” Rogers on Saturday at Residence Park Church of Christ, 4328 Hoover Ave. in Dayton.

Rapper and activist Chuck D. toasted the couple, Dugger said. S1W member James “Brother James” Norman was a groomsman.

Flavor Flav, D J Lord, Khari Wynn, Sammy Sam and all other members of the band except for Professor Griff and two S1W members attended the wedding and reception at Country Club of the North in Beavercreek.

The band, with the groom included, reunited for the first time in four years to perform “Rebel Without a Pause,” “911 Is a Joke,” “Don’t Believe the Hype,” and “Fight the Power.”

Dugger, a Belmont High School graduate, was a featured artist on D J Terminator X’s 1991 song “Homey Don’t Play Dat” as part of the duo Bonnie ‘N’ Clyde.

Romance was not an option for the pair back then.

“He was with someone else. I was with someone else,” said Dugger, a Toledo native raised in Dayton.

Dugger next saw Rogers in passing in Los Angeles in 2013 when he and the rest of Public Enemy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Sparks didn’t fly until November 2017, when Rogers contacted Dugger to say he would be performing in Michigan.

A manufacturing worker for 22 years, Dugger was working at a plant in Flint, Mich., at the time and took the opportunity to recon- nect with Rogers.

The romance was sealed.

“He wasn’t going to let me go, and I wasn’t going to let him go,” Dugger said. “We have been inseparable since.”

Dugger is now an assembly line manager at Ford’s Sharonville plant. Rogers, who was raised in Columbus, now lives in North Carolina.

The pair, both members of Residence Park Church, is trying to decide where to settle.

Dugger said marriage was far from her mind before Rogers came along.

“We both say it is nothing but God,” she said of the union.

CONTRIBUTED BY ROBIN DUGGER Robin Dugger, a graduate of Belmont High, and Norman “DJ Terminator X” Rogers, a former member of Public Enemy, were married Saturday.