Public Enemy to release new album in April
Author: NewZfusion
Friday, March 31, 2006
Now they throw us a 'curveball' in the shape of this special release created in conjunction with rapper & producer Paris&the first time a PE album has been written & arranged by another artist !
Why would one of hip-hop's most legendary lyricists recruit another MC to write him an album full of rhymes- .....According to Chuck D, it's an experiment he's been wanting to try for some time, finally realized on Rebirth of a Nation..The album features veteran Bay Area rapper, producer and activist Paris, who not only created the music but also wrote "98 percent" of Chuck's verses !!
Rebirth of A Nation was due to come out in August 2005 but its release was shelved to make way for their New Whirl Odor album. Rebirth, is released on Paris' own Guerilla Funk label, & deals with militantly leftist themes that will be familiar to Public Enemy fans !!
The opening cut, "Raw Shit," features guest vocalist MC Ren of West Coast gangsta-rap pioneers N.W.A., and addresses a litany of issues -- from Iraq to American poverty and racism. On the cut, which quotes from the 1988 Public Enemy classic "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," Chuck sneers, "Don't tell me that the war is won".
Public Enemy's Minister of Information, Professor Griff, appears on the rock-influenced title track, while Flavor Flav is featured throughout. "Flav's recordings are what they always have been since the Eighties," Chuck says of Flav, whose appearances on reality shows like VH1's Strange Love stirred up more controversy for the group last year.
Rebirth features guests spots by Dead Prez, Kam, Conscious Daughters, Kam, T-K.A.S.H. (of The Coup) and MC Ren (of NWA). Rebirth Of A Nation is an exercise in controlled chaos and Paris pulls out all of the stops to present his finest work yet .
Released 10 April 2006 on Guerilla Funk Records .
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