Download Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? [B0032885-02]

Style: Hip-Hop, Rap
Date: 22/09/2020
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Public Enemy / Def Jam
Cat# B0032885-02

Пятнадцатый альбом жгучего и бодрящего от ветеранов сцены Паблик Энеми, которые с самого своего рождения оставались тем стержнем, вокруг которого вилась спираль настоящего хип-хопа. В этом году группа Public Enemy дала нам немало инфоповодов: увольнение из состава Flavor Flav'a, оказавшееся сомнительным пиар-ходом, тепло принятый сингл «State Of The Union (STFU)» и новая версия хита «Fight The Power». И именно в 2020-ом, когда США охватила новая волна массовых протестов против расизма и полицейского произвола, музыка PE вновь стала актуальна.
- Все это подготовило нас к новому альбому легендарной группы «What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?». Лучшего момента для его выпуска и не подобрать. Что немаловажно, пластинка вышла на лейбле Def Jam, где прошли золотые годы их карьеры. В 1998-ом парни покинули компанию, так как на тот момент продажи их музыки сильно упали и фокус был смещен на молодых артистов. Но спустя 22 года они снова вернулись, как сказал Chuck D, «домой».
- Гостевые участия просто подарок для старых слушателей PE и хип-хопа в целом, парням удалось расшевелить для записи участников легендарных групп Beastie Boys и Run-DMC! Помимо них в треклисте полно значимых имен, таких как Cypress Hill, Ice-T, Nas, Blacj Thought, PMD и даже George Clinton. А оценить сам материал можно уже сейчас.

Public Enemy, George Clinton - When The Grid Go Down... 1:32
Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, George Clinton - GRID 4:32
Public Enemy, Dj Premier - State Of The Union (STFU) 2:55
Pop Diesel - Merica Mirror 0:08
Public Enemy, Mike D, Ad-Rock, Run DMC - Public Enemy Number Won 5:26
Public Enemy - Toxic 3:12
Public Enemy, Daddy-O - Yesterday Man 3:04
James Bomb - Crossroads Burning 0:13
Public Enemy, Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG, Questlove - Fight The Power: Remix 2020 4:57
Public Enemy - Beat Them All 2:53
Public Enemy, Ice-T, PMD - Smash The Crowd 3:06
Public Enemy - If You Can't Join Em Beat Em 0:50
Public Enemy, Jahi - Go At It 3:22
Mark Jenkins - Don't Look At The Sky 0:09
Public Enemy, The Impossebulls - Rest In Beats 3:57
Public Enemy - R.I.P. Blackat 3:36
Ms. Ariel - Closing: I Am Black 0:14
17 / 44:07



Yes, Chuck D has earned the right to make as much average music as he wants. What’s dispiriting is that the genius who devised the deathless definition of rap as the black CNN remains so stuck on the History channel. This is an uneasy mix of songs gussied up from a 2017 giveaway album and weird microaggressions towards 80s classics such as Public Enemy No 1.

Half man, half megaphone even at 60, Chuck is a very specific talent who feeds on combative backing tracks forged to fit his voice. A parade of golden age guests – B-Real, Ice-T, Run-DMC – looks great on the credits, yet even Nas struggles with Fight the Power: Remix 2020, sheepish rhymes swallowed whole by that ravenous, lupine Bomb Squad beat.

PE have always had ideas, titles and lyrics that range from gauche and offensive to inspirational and incendiary, but if deadnaming Caitlyn Jenner seemed a misstep in 2017 it feels deeply dumb now. And although Chuck has rightly criticised phallocentric US rap, there’s only room for two brief female features here. Some competent moments, especially the punchy State of the Union (STFU) and Go at It, but stronger editors should have whittled this down to a mixtape.

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