Public Enemy’s Chuck D Will get Bizarre on Trippy Solo Single, ‘New Gens’

It’s been seven years since Public Enemy chief Chuck D launched a solo single. However on Friday (April 18) the lyrical Laborious Rhymer got here again into the body with the psychedelic bomb monitor “New Gens.” A swirl of PE’s signature hard-hitting beats, layered samples and D’s twisty wordplay, it opens with the rapper borrowing final presidential election’s Democrat diss of alternative.

“Bizarre, I’m bizarre too/ However rattling, you bizarre/ Can’t stand the best way you, goddamn you bizarre/ Oh manner you possibly can’t see, however are you able to hear for a minute?/ In case you can not see it, however can not hear it/ Whoa, new gens can’t dance to this,” he booms over the free jazz-like monitor that includes rock guitar, classic VHS tape academic movies samples, blaring horns and a disjointed drum monitor.

“Right here proper now the place to be/ Why all people’s at all times pickin’ on we?/ We the individuals, ‘crossed all ages/ Now joined by a display between/ Known as screenagers,” he intones within the video that encompasses a collage of inventory b-boy and rollerskating footage from the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, information reels and recent movie of Chuck chilling on a sofa having a drink. “And don’t overlook, new gens I really like y’all/ Have a ball,’” D says in a shout-out to the present crop of MCs.

Stetsasonic legend Schooly D jumps into body within the remaining stretch to amp issues up with a frenetic visitor spot.

“They are saying I acquired no filter/ I’m wonderin’ if it’s true/ However whenever you communicate the reality/ Some punks ain’t into you,” he raps earlier than including the chilly laborious coda, “Some individuals declare they legends/ However don’t put nothin’ out.”

The only is the primary style of D’s upcoming solo album, Radio Armageddon, which is due out on Might 18. The 14-track follow-up to 2018’s Celebration of Ignorance will discover Chuck surrounded by a few of his old-fashioned microphone brethren, from Schooly D to Philly rapper Phill Most Chill and Donald D and Jazzy Jay of the Common Zulu Nation. Different friends embody hip-hop’s authentic hype lady, Son of Bazerk’s 1/2 Pint, ULTRAMAG7, N.Y. MC Miranda Writes and artists from D’s SpitSLAM Document label, The Impossebulls and Blak Madeen.

Take a look at the video for “New Gens” and the album’s monitor listing under.