Public Enemy have launched their first single in 5 years—a protest music written and recorded with a collective of scholar collaborators. Take heed to “March Insanity” under.
Fast proceeds from the monitor—launched in honor of Juneteenth—will profit the Black Music Motion Coalition Human Rights Fund and the anti–gun violence nonprofit Everytown, in accordance with a press launch. The coed contributors, from Harvard, Berklee, and Howard, embrace 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 monitor, “It’s horrible what’s occurring proper now around the globe and particularly right here. I hate it. However I received a voice and a platform and we’re nonetheless combating the ability and for optimistic change all these years later.”
Chuck D added, “Gun violence just isn’t regular conduct, but it surely’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 present on tour. Their final album was 2020’s What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down.
