KEXP Seattle — Beat is the father of your rock and roll: talking with critic Christopher R. Weingarten about Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back “All in, we’re gonna win” says Chuck D on his group Public Enemy’s 1988 masterpiece,... more info

Guardian Music — Marking the release of Public Enemy's Fight the Power 21 years ago, this overview of hip-hop's political awakening did a good job of showing pop music at its most revolutionaryThe Black CNN – When Hip Hop Took Control (Radio 4) was the story of a p... more info

MVSW — Public Enemy ~ “By The Time I Get to Arizona” It’s been almost 20 years since Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Stikes Black was released. It appears some things never change regardless of how much time passes. Samples Mandrill ~ “Two Sisters of My... more info

Pitchfork — Chuck D and the state of Arizona just don't mix. As Billboard points out, "Tear Down That Wall" is a new track by the Public Enemy MC in which he harshly criticizes the state's new controversial immigration laws, likening them to "Gestapo border cont... more info

Reuters — CLEVELAND (Billboard) - Public Enemy's Chuck D has Arizona in his crosshairs - again. more info

MTV.com News — 'Did you ever have anybody try to kill you?' the Bronx MC says of being counted out after weak album sales.By Shaheem Reid Fat Joe Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/ FilmMagic Fat Joe is like the vampire Bill Compton on HBO's "True Blood" — crawling... more info

Pitchfork — Fucked Up are staying busy as fuck. On their plate, they've got new singles, split releases, a charity appearance, a cover of an '80s classic, and, apparently, touring and collaborating with Public Enemy (!) Fucked Up make great albums, like 2008's ... more info

Guardian Music — GZA, Fat Joe and Sadat X have all got follow-up fever. So how long till we get Straight Back to Compton?Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, the mesmerising debut from Wu-Tang Clansman Raekwon changed hip-hop in 1995, as lesser MCs rushed to ram raid the album's... more info

KEXP Seattle — These days KEXP plays quite a bit of rap and hip hop, of course during Street Sounds every week, but also mixed into pretty much all of the variety mix DJs’ sets. From Blue Scholars to Shabazz Palaces, Public Enemy to LL Cool J, most of the DJs he... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — The Big Pink guitarist loves Smashing Pumpkins, Butthole Surfers and being alone in remote Scotland My first album ‘Straight Out The Jungle’ by Jungle Brothers “They came out around the same time as NWA and Public Enemy, but they didn’t hav... more info