Public Enemy

PUBLIC ENEMY Released Their Master Rap Attack Album ‘APOCALYPSE 91… THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK’ Today 35 Years Ago

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1 October 2026

Notorious rap rebels PUBLIC ENEMY released their master rap attack opus
APOCALYPSE 91… THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK on 1 October 1991, today
35 years ago.

The album title is an allusion to the titles of the films
Apocalypse Now and The Empire Strikes Back.

It peaked on #4 on the USA Billboard 200, #1 on the hip-hop-rap charts.

The band would take a new direction with their sound, partly out of necessity.
The disks for every track they had been working on for the past four to five years
had been stolen. As a result, they had to rush to re-create their music and to
put out their album in a timely manner.

AllMusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine said: “Arriving after two records – ‘It Takes
A Nation of Millions’ and ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ – where the words and music were
equally labyrinthine, folding back on each other in dizzying, intoxicating ways, it is a
bit of a letdown to have Apocalypse be so direct, but there is no denying that the end
result is still thrilling and satisfying, and remains one of the great records of the
golden age of hip-hop.”

Turn Up the Volume: My all-time favorite raiding-and-raving rap revolutionists.
Even a nation of millions can’t hold Public Enemy back from bringing on the noise
and shutting the racists, absolutists, and xenophobes down. For a long time they
were in every way the most important black squad in the world.

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PUBLIC ENEMY – Apocalypse 2025… Riot-Rap Crusaders Dropped Surprise Album

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1 July 2025

Sharp-tongued riot-rap crusaders PUBLIC ENEMY fronted by Chuck D, who
released a new solo LP, named Radio Armageddon, last May, and loudmouth
Flavor Flav dropped, out of the blue, a new album, their 16th, titled BLACK SKY
OVER THE PROSPECTS: APARTMENT 2025.

So far, it’s only available for streaming and buying on Bandcamp.

PE rant, roar, rage, rock and hip-rap-hop like in the old days, with loads
of razor-edged pizzazz, anti-establishment cry-outs and expressive chants.

As an ever politically outspoken gang, they can’t be missed in these
gruesome wartimes and with an egomaniacal macho in the White
House.

Public Enemy Apocalypse 2025… The Enemy Strikes Back
would have been a fitting album title too.

(W)rap it up, people,
right here, right now.


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Riot-Gun Rap Vet ‘CHUCK D PRESENTS ENEMY RADIO: RADIO ARMAGEDDON’

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16 May 2025

With Public Enemy rap loudmouth CHUCK D (now 64) has recorded/released
15 albums, with What You Gonna Do When The Grind Goes Down? from 2020,
as the most recent one.

Today it’s time for his 5th solo trip. And it’s named…
CHUCK D PRESENTS ENEMY RADIO: RADIO ARMAGEDDON.

Press info: ”It’s the return of the voice that never left. Chuck D delivers
a seismic broadcast of truth, rhythm, and resistance – uniting hip hop’s pioneers
and new gens alike in a fearless soundtrack for the times. It features contributions
from Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, Schoolly D, Phill Most Chill, Donald D and Jazzy Jay of the Universal Zulu Nation, 1/2 Pint, ULTRAMAG7, and Miranda Writes, plus The Impossebulls
and Blak Madeen.”

AllMusic: “Radio Armageddon is intended for an audience who has been listening to Public Enemy for most of its life, but the album continues in the group’s tradition of delivering timely, empowering messages with dense, confrontational barrages of revolutionary noise.”

TUTV: Chuck D is at his razor blade sharp best when he fulminates against the rotten powers that be. And with that egomaniacal idiot Trump back in the White House there’s
a lot to get furious about. America wasn’t as divided as it is right now because of that deranged hate-preacher who normalizes sexism, racism, and overall intolerance.

Chuck D hips and hops, raps and claps, with knife-edged rhymes and riot-gun tirades, forth and back, left and right. He turns 65 in August, but he will never shut up and mouth off when it comes to expose all sorts of injustices. With or without Public Enemy he will always speak out against the oppressors in charge.

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PUBLIC ENEMY’s Rap Loudmouth CHUCK D. Back Solo With His ‘NEW GENS’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

19 April 2025

With Public Enemy‘s rap loudmouth CHUCK D. (now 64) has recorded/released
15 albums, with What You Gonna Do When The Grind Goes Down? from 2020,
as the most recent one.

Now, he’s ready again for a solo ride. His 5th LP
named Armageddon Radio. It hit the streets on
16th May.

NEW GENS featuring Daddy-O
is the lead single.

Jazzy rock rap.
Turn up the radio.

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PUBLIC ENEMY – Notorious Rap Radicals Released Their Stroke Of Genius ‘FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET’ 35 Years Ago Today

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Significant albums from yesteryear

10 April 2025

This day 35 years ago, on 10 April 1990, iconoclastic rap radicals
PUBLIC ENEMY released their 3rd longplayer with the sharp-teethed,
stroke of genius named FEAR A BLACK PLANET

NME wrote: ” ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ stands as a masterpiece of righteous anger
and furious energy. The Bomb Squad’s ability to create order from a white noise chaos
of sampled loops, stolen riffs and radio chatter foreshadowed the coming technological overload of the 21st Century… The album is hip-hop at it’s most musically ambitious.”

TUTV: Best razor-blade rap punks ever. Hands down.

SINGLES: 911 Is A Joke / Welcome To The Terrordome

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