For those unaware, 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 D’s 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.

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. C’MON 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)

With Public Enemy’s classic albums having been the soundtrack to hip-hop’s rise as social and political commentary, they open this brand new recording on the deeply informative SIICK and the RATM-esque CONFUSION (HERE COME THE DRUMS) and then we get the rhythmic R&B and Hop-Hop of WHAT EYE SAID, the harder edged C’MON GET DOWN, the guitar heavy EVIL WAY, before the glorious raps within SEXEGENARIAN VAPE are brought forth.

Then we are gifted the old school sounds of MESSY HENS and the guitar driven FOOLS FOOL FOOLS and they are in turn followed neatly by the melodic …THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN…, the soulful AGEISM, the set rounding out on the forthright PUBLIC ENEMY COMIN THROOOOO, coming to a close on the hard-edged 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.”

“We’re bringing our beats to the world with this album,” adds Flavor Flav.

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