Written by Lauren Rosier
Public Enemy shares their new video for single, “Public Enemy Number Won,” out now via Def Jam Recordings. The video features Public Enemy, Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Ad-Rock along with Run-DMC get animated in the new video.
“The song is an homage to ‘Public Enemy No. 1 and that moment in time,” explains Chuck D. “The Beastie Boys and Run-DMC were playing it all the time and Rick Rubin kept coming at us to sign with Def Jam. So it’s my way of bringing it all back together again.”
Their latest record, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? features guest appearances from Nas, YG, Rapsody, DJ Premier, Black Thought, Questlove, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC, Ice-T, PMD, George Clinton, Daddy-O, Jahi, The Impossebulls, Mark Jenkins, S1Ws Pop Diesel, and James Bomb and Mike D and Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys.
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