Public Enemy is bum rushing the show, like nobody ever did before with their new album: "There Is A Poison Going On". Can a nation of millions hold them down while they distribute their music through the land of billions, Internet? After all those years people are still afraid of a black planet. In this sick and messed up age it's the Enemy striking back with what they do best: with a message in their music. After so many years of injustice the apocalypse is nearby. Who's gonna make it to 2000? Who will get over the wall of technology and who will miss the boat? If you got soul, you know there is a poison going on for a long time. With the power of soul, everything is possible.

Public Enemy made it sure, their music is what they control. They proved you can overthrow the system. Released totally independent and distributed through www.atomicpop.com. No strings anymore to Def Jam, renamed by Chuck D as Def Scam.

You don't even need to watch garbage commercials on MTV or TMF. "85% believing all the video's/God knows/who controls the radios/some chose the road to be hoes/and so I rose/in the middle all the woes". Getting etno marketed using the tell-a-lie-vision Box in your private room which you thought you control. Yes indeed, this revolution will not be televised. "Griff is back got 5 on it black/the tracks got X on the decks". Check their first new video: 'Do You Wanna Go Our Way'. You can check out the video at their homepage www.public-enemy.com. With this move they are blowing up the industry and "dropped the bomb on HipHop", asking and giving a clue: "who got Biggie and who shot Tupac/what's forgot/ain't no Eazy, no Scott La Rock". For all the new stars, Scott La Rock was the half of the duo Boogie Down Productions together with KRS One. When they came out with their debut album Criminal Minded. He never made it to record the second album because he was shot dead while trying to squash a beef involving a nephew.

You can measure power or strength in sales numbers or how high you reach. I prefer to look at how many times you stand up and get up. Public Enemy is standing tall.

"I", is the song with the shortest title ever done by P.E. In the role of a homeless, Chuck D reports once more about the ugly society the U.S. is. Like many other societies. "Pain between the papers while sleeping on the train/this is the land of milk and honey/know what I'm saying/the invisible man times three/black, down and out/out standing on a corner no doubt/now a nation of homeless/sleeping in bus stations". Points out that pure capitalism isn't healthy. But neither is HipHop these days. "HipHop has cancer", "Dissing pyramids while praising projects". Showing that it is not only the system that fucks people up. "I walk past three brothers sitting on the porch/with a yard of dirt and littered with Newports/talking how they come up while they sitting on their ass/as I walk past them I'm a target of their laughs/and one said lets get em for his fucking stash/as I walked fast past the other yards with grass/had a little cash tried to make it last/from a few deals I made from cleaning windshields/I ran like a rally they caught me in an alley/can't get out the ghetto from New York to Cali/I thought I had nothing till I felt the knife/and now I ain't got a life". Indirect pointing to a very up to date campaign by the Dutch government: 'De maatschappij, dat ben jij!' (The society, that is you!). Trying to move back some more social values into the society after some peeps got cold blood murdered while bystanders didn't do jack.

Started in 1987, are these the ones that refuse to loose even with so many troubles on their mind. They rebel without a pause. Keeping on doing what they do: bum rushing the show. Looks like the millennium bug getting to a millennium bop bop for the industry.

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AQ