Public Enemy – Black Sky Over The Projects Apartment 2025 CD New

After a five year hiatus, Chuck D & Flavor Flav return to the scene with a new Public Enemy album, bringing their always insightful commentary over rugged and shapeshifting beats. From the opening diagnosis of ‘Siick’ all the way to the insanity of school shootings during ‘March Madness’, the red, Black, and green machine is back to clean up the scene.

On Black Sky Over the Projects, Chuck Ds lyrical firepower and the inimitable Flavor Flav fearlessly call out the ills that plague society, politics, corporations and even ourselves while challenging us to do better. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winners also celebrate the power of music itself, with tracks like Here Come The Drums, the ebullient love letter to hip-hop, Get Down, and the single, March Madness.

This album is a give-back to all of our fans with gratitude and appreciation, says Chuck D, we see and appreciate you. Were bringing our beats to the world with this album, adds Flavor Flav.

Public Enemys classic albums are the soundtrack to hip-hops rise as social and political commentary. Their debut record,Yo! Bum Rush The Show, was named Album of the Year by NME, with Rolling Stone declaring that the release heralded hip-hops great leap forward and The New York Times calling Public Enemy the voice of a community.

Their sophomore effort, 1988s It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, is one of the most important records ever made and was named to The New York Times list of 25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century. Fear of a Black Planet featured Public Enemys signature song, Fight The Power, used by Spike Lee in his film Do The Right Thing. The album also included the powerful 911 Is a Joke and Welcome To The Terrordome. Apocalypse 91The Enemy Strikes Black carried on the groups legacy, reaching #4 on the album chart and going platinum. The record included By the Time I Get To Arizona, demanding that America confront race relations after the states governor refused to recognize the new Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday. In 2012, Public Enemys Harder Than You Think went to #1 on the UK urban and indie singles chart and to #4 on the official UK singles chart, their tenth Top 40 hit in England and their highest charting single ever.

By 2020, Public Enemy were tapped to open the BET Awards with a remix of Fight The Power, where they were joined by Nas, Rapsody, The Roots, YG and Jahi in a fiery protest against the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others at the hands of police officers. The critically acclaimed album, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down, was released that year on Def Jam and featured guest performances by the Beastie Boys Mike D and Ad-Rock, George Clinton, Cypress Hill, Ice-T, PMD, Run-DMC and more.

Track Listing
1. SIICK (Produced by C-Doc & M-Rok for The Beat Raiders)
2. CONFUSION (HERE COME THE DRUMS) (Produced by Felony Muzik)
3. WHAT EYE SAID (Produced by C-Doc for DefBeat Posse Productions, ID!)
4. CMON GET DOWN (Produced by Felony Muzik)
5. EVIL WAY (Produced by Carl Ryder & JP Hesser)
6. SEXEGENARIAN VAPE (Produced by C-Doc for DefBeat Posse Productions, ID!)
7. MESSY HENS (Produced by Sam Farrar, Additional Production by Carl Ryder)
8. FOOLS FOOL FOOLS (Produced by C-Doc for DefBeat Posse Productions, ID!)
9. THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN (Produced by Sam Hollander & Grant Michaels)
10. AGEISM (Produced by C-Doc for DefBeat Posse Productions, ID!)
11. PUBLIC ENEMY COMIN THROOOOO (Produced by Felony Muzik)
12. MARCH MADNESS (Produced by Nigel Sanders, Additional Production by Sam Hollander)