Last year, before releasing What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down, their guest-heavy return to Def Jam Records, the legendary rap rabble-rousers Public Enemy went through a weird public spat that might have been fake. After Public Enemy were announced to perform a Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles, longtime hypeman (and one-time reality TV...

Ask an ’88 hip-hop head steeped in Public Enemy and EPMD what rap would sound like in 2001, and even their wildest futurist visions would have a hard time anticipating what Cannibal Ox would accomplish with The Cold Vein. Twenty years ago this week, the Harlem MC duo of Vast Aire and Vordul Mega — with a legendarily evocative...

The Kings Of Quarantine perform their take on Public Enemy's She Watch Channel Zero in aid of Roadie Relief

The Kings Of Quarantine is a video project put together by Jason Rockman and Kevin Jardine of Slaves On Dope as well as Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher, and today they had a bunch of guests on to cover Public Enemy’s “She Watch Channel Zero.” This includes Billy Gould & Mike Bordin of Faith No More, Mix Master Mike of B...

Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Public Enemy frontman Chuck D look back on the birth of a rap metal landmark