What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?

by Public Enemy

What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 September 2020
  • Label: Def Jam
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:05
  • Community rating: 2.84/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking their high-profile return to Def Jam Recordings, the legendary hip-hop outfit delivers an aggressively political album timed closely with the 2020 American elections. The record features an expansive roster of guest artists, including Cypress Hill and the Beastie Boys, backing Chuck D's fiery critiques of systemic racism and contemporary media manipulation.

Genres

Descriptors: political, sampling, rap, conscious, hard

Tracklist

  1. When The Grid Go Down... [feat. George Clinton] (1:31)
  2. GRID (feat. Cypress Hill, and George Clinton) (4:32)
  3. State Of The Union (STFU) [feat. DJ Premier] (2:54)
  4. Merica Mirror (0:08)
  5. Public Enemy Number Won [feat. Mike D, Ad-Rock, and Run DMC] (5:25)
  6. Toxic (3:11)
  7. Yesterday Man (feat. Daddy-O) (3:03)
  8. Crossroads Burning (0:12)
  9. Fight The Power: Remix 2020 (feat. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG, and Questlove) (4:57)
  10. Beat Them All (2:52)
  11. Smash The Crowd (feat. Ice-T, and PMD) (3:06)
  12. If You Can't Join Em Beat Em (0:50)
  13. Go At It (feat. Jahi) (3:21)
  14. Don't Look At The Sky (0:09)
  15. Rest In Beats (feat. The Impossebulls) (3:57)
  16. R.I.P. Blackat (3:35)
  17. Closing: I Am Black (0:14)

Credits

  • Gunna - featuring
  • Kehlani - featuring

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