Public Enemy have launched their first single in 5 years—a protest music written and recorded with a collective of pupil collaborators. Hearken to “March Insanity” under.
Fast proceeds from the observe—launched in honor of Juneteenth—will profit the Black Music Action Coalition Human Rights Fund and the anti–gun violence nonprofit Everytown, in accordance with a press launch. The scholar contributors, from Harvard, Berklee, and Howard, embody lyricists Anthony Bell, Ollie Marinaccio, Rhiannon Rae Ellis, and Dee-1; Sydney DeLeonardis and Ciaran de Chaud; and producer Nigel Sanjai Sanders.
Taste Flav mentioned of the observe, “It’s horrible what’s occurring proper now all over the world and particularly right here. I hate it. However I acquired a voice and a platform and we’re nonetheless preventing the facility and for optimistic change all these years later.”
Chuck D added, “Gun violence shouldn’t be regular habits, however it’s been occurring for thus lengthy that it’s normalized. We have to deal with it just like the illness and the epidemic that it’s.”
Public Enemy are at the moment on tour. Their final album was 2020’s What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down.
