What you gonna do when the grid goes down?

"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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"For their 15th album, Public Enemy are back on Def Jam, the powerhouse label they helped build with their golden-age hip-hop classics. It's a well-timed return to the center of the industry ... The fact that Chuck D and Flavor Flav remain at once hopeful and skeptical, honoring their own past and the music's while pushing it forward, is a huge part of this record's passionate, agitating, cranky energy".

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"It's not the sound of a group resting on their laurels, it's the sound of a band summoning their strengths with a hint of sentiment to figure out how to deal with a world gone mad".

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