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Returning to Def Jam after more than two decades, Public Enemy is back and louder than ever! What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down is the revitalized social justice anthem of 2020 and the body of work is a call to action, inciting justice for the black community. The album features artists such as DJ Premier, Mike D, Ice-T, PMD, Run DMC, and Jahi.

As Slim Shady fans prepare for Revival Eminem amplified the excitement to his highly anticipated ninth studio album with the brash track "Untouchable," which you can read all the cryptic lyrics decoded here. Em opened his official online store to fans who want to pick up merchandise and support the Detroit native ahead of the 19-track project's release date with a plethora of options. Items for purchase range from Shady-engraved dog tags, steel-printed "Walk On Water" lyrics hand-written by Em, a black t-shirt or hoodie with a graphic featuring the 45-year-old taking aim at his detractors. All purchases come with a digital or CD version of Revival, which is also available as a lithograph. The most expensive option for Stans to pre-order contains a bundle encompassing the previously mentioned dog tag and "Walk On Water" steel print, in addition to an exclusive autographed version of Revival, which will run you $500 in total for the package deal.

For the first time ever, 44 tracks spanning their five-decade career. Featuring Dream On, Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion, Crazy, Cryin’, I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing and many more! Stunning live photography and band photos across their entire career.

Sun City was a 1985 album that contained several versions of the Steven Van Zandt-led Artists United Against Apartheid's "Sun City" protest song against apartheid in South Africa as well as other selections in the same vein from that project.

Seattle-born musician Ayron Jones is carrying the torch for rock `n' roll.

At this point in their respective careers, Kanye West and Jay-Z don't have anything else to prove. They're already iconic megastars of the highest order, with an endless array of classics that rekindle an interest in Annie and Ray Charles, blurring the lines between rap's underground affinities and pop music's robust stadium sound. They are full-fledged stunt men, focused more on preserving their own monetary interests than advancing the hip hop culture. Therefore, one shouldn't expect the second coming of Run-DMC on Watch the Throne, even if Otis Redding's and Curtis Mayfield's disembodied voices inject dashes of soul into the otherwise glossy project. These rappers have lots of money, lavish tastes and the world at their collective feet. They want you to rejoice and be glad in it.

Released in 1984, Idioblast is a lost classic, a future shock narrative ahead of its time, and yet completely of its era, like few artifacts before or since. The cover tips you off from the jump—a crude but effective collage featuring classic Fekner slogans like Toxic Junkie, Growth Decay and Soft Brains Watch The Screen And Buy The Jeans. In an uncanny and tragic coincidence, the very first lyric on the album—“The place to be is on the space shuttle/if you’re brave enough to get on it”—seems to anticipate the Challenger disaster just two years later. But for the most part, the tracks on Idioblast directly reference the concepts that inspired Fekner’s visual art.