Chuck D has returned with a brand new single “New Gens,” which can seem on his upcoming solo album Radio Armageddon. “New Gens” is his first solo single and video in seven years. The track begins with a PSA voice commenting on adolescence: “Everyone asks themselves, ‘How will I turn out?’” Chuck instantly cuts in, “Weird, I’m weird, too.” Radio Armageddon is out Could 16 by way of Def Jam Recordings.
The 14-track album options visitor appearances from Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, Schoolly D, Philadelphia hip hop legend Phill Most Chill, Donald D and Jazzy Jay of the Common Zulu Nation, hip-hop’s first hype lady 1/2 Pint, ULTRAMAG7, NYC’s Miranda Writes and artists from Chuck’s personal SpitSLAM Document Label Group: The Impossebulls and Blak Madeen.
The Public Enemy co-founder’s final solo effort was 2018’s Celebration of Ignorance.
In 2020, Chuck D and Public Enemy unleashed their fifteenth album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? on Def Jam. It featured collaborations with Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, George Clinton, Ice-T, Nas and extra. Public Enemy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2013.
In 2023, Chuck D narrated Can You Dig It? A Hip-Hop Origin Story, an Audible Unique sequence commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop. The 5-episode docu-drama explores the occasions surrounding the 1971 homicide of Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin, a revered peacekeeper and member of the influential Ghetto Brothers gang within the Bronx. That very same yr, he co-produced the PBS documentary Battle the Energy: How Hip Hop Modified the World.
Chuck D was additionally a member of Prophets of Rage, an American rap rock supergroup composed of members of Rage In opposition to the Machine/Audioslave, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill. They launched a self-titled album in 2017. The group disbanded in 2019 after Rage In opposition to the Machine reunited.
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