Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamp

Public Enemy\'s 11th album finds them full of enlightened fury, as the Bomb Squad\'s tumultuous production—which includes some blistering guitar on opener \"Run Till It\'s Dark\" and elsewhere—backs Chuck D\'s righteous polemic. Next-generation spitters Brother Ali (\"Get Up Stand Up\") and Large Professor & Cormega (on the Jay-Z-baiting \"Catch the Thrown\") pay tribute, equally intellectual and pissed-off in their fiery guest verses. The album title is a callback to PE\'s 1989 anthem \"Fight the Power\"; more than two decades later, they\'re still fighting.

Its title hearkens back to a line in Public Enemy's incendiary 1989 anthem "Fight the Power," recalling the band's glory days but cutting deeper, exposing an ugly truth: 20-plus years and a black president in the White House later, things still haven't changed all that much in America.