JUSIPER

 
Chuck D. and Flav return

Posted by Sini

And if the first single "Harder Than You Think" is any indication, this is a major event.

The prospect of a new CD from a major artist barely rates a blip in popular consciousness these days. The forty-five second ad on PE's website gives you a glimpse of how exciting a new release could be if we had talented popular artists who actually had something to say.

The lyrics are self-referential, revolutionary, smart and, yes, hard (just like that). Six and a half years have passed since the death of American democracy. Fifteen have gone by since the death of rap as a genre of any sociopolitical significance. Finally, a song with punch, truth, and a hook that would take it to #1 if it could get the airplay it deserved. No song with an intro that dramatic restricts its ambition to a genre. This is a pop manifesto as much as it is a rap one.

Preview the MP3 at the excellently explicated link above or watch this video, then buy the album directly from the artist here.

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