{"id":250097,"date":"2025-10-30T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250097\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:49:12","slug":"public-enemy-release-politically-charged-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250097\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Enemy Release Politically Charged New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tToday, Public Enemy<\/a> released a music video for \u201cThe Hits Just Keep on Comin\u2019,\u201d the first visual from Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025<\/a>, the album they released in June. The Rhiannon Rae Ellis-directed video is characteristically provocative, interspersing clips of revolutionary figures like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Muhammad Ali with Chuck D<\/a> and Flavor Flav<\/a> in a room full of televisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video begins with footage of Ruby Bridges walking into New Orleans\u2019 William Frantz Elementary School in 1960, ending the school\u2019s years of segregation. It then shifts to actress Safara-Cree Stiggers depicting a young Bridges, opening a door that leads into the video\u2019s main setting. From there, Olympian water polo player Ashleigh Johnson assumes the roles of beloved figures such as Prince, Tommie Smith, Serena Williams, and Amanda Gorman as Public Enemy\u2019s members trade bars over a rambunctious guitar loop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFlavor Flav sets the resilient tone, rapping, \u201cKnock us down, we \u2026 won\u2019t stop now, B,\u201d and Chuck\u00a0follows up, rhyming, \u201cListen \u2014 yall got radio permission?\/Hit \u2018em hard, knock \u2018em out of commission.\u201d From the snippet of late congressman and activist John Lewis\u2019 speech<\/a> at the 1963 March on Washington, to Johnson smashing a TV with the word \u201chate\u201d beaming onscreen, the visual aims to reflect the world\u2019s turbulent political state as urgently as Public Enemy\u2019s refrain of \u201cwhat ya got, ya got to do somethin\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese lyrics are still relevant today as much as yesterday, and when they\u2019re juxtaposed with these heroes that never stopped, no one can make excuses,\u201d Chuck tells Rolling Stone in an emailed statement. \u201cIt\u2019s time to wake up and DO something. Emphasis on the \u2018DO.\u2019 And Flav outdid himself on this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFlavor Flav adds, \u201cThis music video for \u2018The Hits Just Keep on Comin\u2019 got a real important history lesson, a real important message, and a real important warning. My girl Ashleigh Johnson from the Olympic water polo team did a phenomenal job honoring some of the greatest heroes of modern civil and cultural rights. I\u2019m very proud of the important artwork and messaging that Public Enemy continues to put out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video follows Public Enemy\u2019s \u201cBlack Sky VIDmash\u201d<\/a> clip, a mashup of three different songs that they released on Monday. Flavor Flav was an official sponsor of the U.S. women\u2019s water polo team, which included Johnson, at the 2024 Olympics; he recently announced that he will play the same role for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton<\/a> team at the 2026 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, Public Enemy released a music video for \u201cThe Hits Just Keep on Comin\u2019,\u201d the first visual from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,116945,75,116946,341,116947],"class_list":{"0":"post-250097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chuck-d","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-flavor-flav","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-public-enemy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}