Public Enemy
American hip hop group
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| 2025 | Planned release of 'Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025', demonstrating their continued musical presence. |
| June 19 2025 | Public Enemy released their first new music since 2020, a song titled 'March Madness', collaborating with students from Harvard, Berklee, and Howard Universities to create a protest anthem for Juneteenth. |
| November 25 2023 | Ivano Fossati, Oscar Prudente, and Universal Music Group sued Public Enemy for plagiarism regarding the song 'Harder Than You Think'. |
| 2020 | Released two albums: 'Loud Is Not Enough' under the name Enemy Radio, and 'What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?', showcasing their ongoing musical innovation. |
| September 25 2020 | Public Enemy returned to Def Jam and released their studio album 'What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?' |
| June 19 2020 | Public Enemy (reunited with Flavor Flav) released the anti-Donald Trump single and music video 'State of the Union (STFU)'. |
| April 1 2020 | Announced Flavor Flav's firing, which was later revealed to be an April Fools' Day publicity stunt. |
| March 1 2020 | Chuck D, DJ Lord, Jahi, James Bomb, and Pop Diesel officially announced the firing of Flavor Flav from Public Enemy, citing his repeated absences from group events since 2016. |
| February 2020 | Public Enemy (billed as Public Enemy Radio) was announced to perform at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Los Angeles, which led to internal group tensions. |
| June 29 2017 | Released 'Nothing Is Quick in the Desert', Public Enemy's fourteenth album, available for free download on Bandcamp until July 4, 2017. |
| October 11 2015 | PE 2.0 released their second album 'InsPirEd', part two of a proposed trilogy. |
| July 2015 | Released 'Man Plans God Laughs', Public Enemy's thirteenth album. |
| 2014 | Chuck D launched PE 2.0 with Oakland rapper Jahi as a spiritual successor to Public Enemy. |
| October 7 2014 | PE 2.0 released their first album 'People Get Ready'. |
| 2013 | Public Enemy is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| 2013 | Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recognizing their significant impact on music. |
| 2012 | Released two albums: 'Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp' and 'The Evil Empire of Everything', demonstrating their continued musical productivity. |
| October 1 2012 | Released 'The Evil Empire of Everything' album. |
| August 26 2012 | Performed at South West Four music festival in Clapham Common, London. |
| July 30 2012 | Performed a free concert with Salt-N-Pepa and Kid 'n Play at Wingate Park in Brooklyn, New York City, as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series. |
| July 13 2012 | Released 'Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp', exclusively available on iTunes. |
| January 2011 | Public Enemy released the album 'Beats and Places', a compilation of remixes and 'lost' tracks. |
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