Public Enemy just dropped a brand new song for the first time in half a decade, working side by side with a bunch of students to make it happen.
This track, called “March Madness,” was made as a protest and hit streaming services in celebration of Juneteenth, with all the money from the first sales going straight to the Black Music Action Coalition Human Rights Fund and Everytown, which fights against gun violence. Some of the students who helped out with writing and producing the song came from Harvard, Berklee, and Howard—like Anthony Bell, Ollie Marinaccio, Rhiannon Rae Ellis, Dee-1, Sydney DeLeonardis, Ciaran de Chaud, and Nigel Sanjai Sanders.
Flavor Flav spoke honestly about the song: “It’s horrible what’s going on right now around the world and especially here. I hate it. But I got a voice and a platform and we are still fighting the power and for positive change all these years later.” Meanwhile, Chuck D shared his own thoughts, saying, “Gun violence is not normal behavior, but it’s been going on for so long that it’s normalized. We need to treat it like the sickness and the epidemic that it is.”
Sometimes people just want the world to get better, and music is one way to try to help.
Right now, Public Enemy are out on tour, and the last time they put out an album was back in 2020, which was called What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down.
