{"id":3216,"date":"2025-06-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/public-enemy-new-album\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:00:00","slug":"public-enemy-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/public-enemy-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Enemy Put Tech, Ageism In The Crosshairs On Surprise New LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/01\/Public_Enemy_SanjaySuchak_01-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"863\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>While most of Public Enemy\u2019s biggest songs \u2014 including \u201cFight the Power\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Believe the Hype\u201d \u2014 tackle social injustice, systemic racism, media bias and other socio-political topics, Chuck D and Flavor Flav have other, equally timely concerns on their minds on <em>Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025<\/em>, a new album surprised released yesterday (June 27) on the eve of an international tour opening for Guns N\u2019 Roses.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck D tells SPIN that <em>Black Sky<\/em> songs such as \u201cSiick\u201d and \u201cAgeism\u201d focus on the pitfalls of a technology-obsessed society and discrimination against our aging hip-hop elders.\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s so much to say because there\u2019s so much that we\u2019ve seen and experienced in this world over the last five years, so to say that you\u2019re an MC that can\u2019t come up with enough topics is absolutely fucking crazy,\u201d he says. \u201cSo many artists operate off of self-interest to the point where there\u2019s a fear of saying anything outside of that self-interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not trying to show or prove anything,\u201d he continues. \u201cThe only thing I\u2019m trying to prove with this record is me and Flavor could work together \u2014 and it sure did come out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/lorde-opens-glastonbury\/\">Lorde Opens Glastonbury With Surprise \u2018Virgin\u2019 Set<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/mitch-rowland-new-album\/\">Mitch Rowland Is \u2018Ready\u2019 For His Second Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/stephen-bishop-final-album\/\">Stephen Bishop Jams With Yacht Rock Royalty On Final LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, it was a long time in the making. The 12 tracks on <em>Black Sky Over the Projects<\/em>, the follow-up to 2020\u2019s <em>What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?<\/em>, are divided into two parts in a fashion Chuck D likens to Outkast\u2019s <em>Speakerboxx\/The Love Below<\/em>. \u201cMe and Flavor said, you\u2019re going to do your productions and I\u2019ll jump on it, and I\u2019m going to do mine with my team. Then, the teams came together. It was also kind of my test to see how serious Flav was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rumblings another Public Enemy album could be on the horizon began earlier this year, when Chuck D hopped on Flav\u2019s single \u201cEverywhere Man.\u201d Their chemistry, established in the 1980s as students at Long Island\u2019s Adelphi University, was still there, but they had to iron out some of the kinks that initially led to their most recent hiatus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Flav had to sober up after years of substance abuse, but Public Enemy\u2019s 2023 performance during the Grammy Awards\u2019 50th anniversary of hip-hop segment, Chuck saw how committed he was to getting back on track. \u201cThe hip-hop generation and a lot of black folk, we try to tell people that longevity is the key and health is wealth,\u201d he says. \u201cPublic Enemy was, regardless of all the other parts, going nowhere if Flavor wasn\u2019t right. And that was one of the best things that he could have done \u2014 get his health right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Sky<\/em> is available via a pay-what-you-wish model through <a href=\"https:\/\/publicenemy.bandcamp.com\/album\/black-sky-over-the-projects-apartment-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a> and arrived hours before Public Enemy\u2019s show last night at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, where attendees were gifted a CD copy. The group begins a run with Guns N\u2019 Roses tomorrow in Viby J, Denmark, and will return to North America this summer for appearances at the Newport Folk Festival in late July and Shaky Knees in Atlanta in late September.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of Public Enemy\u2019s biggest songs \u2014 including \u201cFight the Power\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Believe the Hype\u201d \u2014 tackle social injustice, systemic racism, media bias and other socio-political topics, Chuck&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[701,2194,901,6,1792,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chuck-d","category-flavor-flav","category-guns-n-roses","category-news","category-public-enemy","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}