Public Enemy have launched their first single in 5 years—a protest tune written and recorded with a collective of pupil collaborators. Hearken to “March Insanity” under.
Rapid 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 response to a press launch. The scholar 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 stated of the observe, “It’s horrible what’s happening proper now all over the world and particularly right here. I hate it. However I received 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 is just not regular habits, nevertheless it’s been happening for therefore 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.
