After 25 years in the game, Public Enemy is still going hard. The controversial group announced that they'll be dropping two new LPs this year with long-time collaborator Gary G-Wiz. Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp will released in June while The Evil Empire of Everything is slated to drop in September.
In other news, PE will be hosting a special concert January 15 in Los Angeles' Skid Row to benefit the desperately impoverished residents.
Dubbed the Operation: Skid Row street festival, the concert, which will also feature X-Clan and the Freestyle Fellowship, will benefit Los Angeles Community Action Network, an organization that aids the area's homeless and provides low-income families with housing.
Chuck D explained why he felt compelled to bring the issue of Skid Row to the forefront.
"Skid Row has been called 'the dirty secret of L.A.' for, like, forever," he explained. "And so, I'm gonna be loud about it...[Outsiders] look at rap music and artists in Hip Hop as being as elitist as the power structures that keep them down. You've got organizations in your city that are trying to say and do the right thing - who are practically invisible - fighting for some media time. What other place do I have? My place in Hip Hop is not to be a tycoon, making trillions with a yacht. That's not my place. My place is maybe bringing people together and me being able to identify and illuminate a cause, and we'll make it comfortable for them to be themselves but say what they've really been wanting to say all along, you know, with my protection."
Source: hiphopdx.com
