{"id":111760,"date":"2025-06-20T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/111760\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:39:11","slug":"public-enemy-rail-against-crooked-politicians-on-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/111760\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Enemy Rail Against Crooked Politicians on &#8216;March Madness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fiery track is a collaboration with a group of student lyricists and producers<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/public-enemy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_public-enemy\" data-tag=\"public-enemy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Public Enemy<\/a> has released a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-protest-songs-1235154848\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">protest single<\/a>, \u201cMarch Madness,\u201d in honor of Juneteenth. The song is described as \u201ca powerful rebuke against crooked politicians and the ongoing crisis of gun violence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAll proceeds from the track will be donated to the Black Music Action Coalition Human Rights Fund and Everytown, a non-profit organization against gun violence.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song is a collaboration with a collective of students, including Harvard University lyricists Anthony Bell, Ollie Marinaccio, Rhiannon Rae Ellis, and rapper Dee-1. Additional student collaborators on the track include Berklee College of Music\u2019s Sydney DeLeonardis and Ciaran de Chaud, and Howard University\u2019s Nigel Sanjai Sanders, who produced the track.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt was an honor to work with the students from Harvard, Berklee, and Howard Universities to create a protest anthem about important issues we are facing as human beings right now,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/flavor-flav\/\" id=\"auto-tag_flavor-flav\" data-tag=\"flavor-flav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flavor Flav<\/a> noted in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s horrible what\u2019s going on right now around the world and especially here. I hate it. But I got a voice and a platform and we are still fighting the power and for positive change all these years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chuck-d\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chuck-d\" data-tag=\"chuck-d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck D<\/a> added, \u201cGun violence is not normal behavior, but it\u2019s been going on for so long that it\u2019s normalized. We need to treat it like the sickness and the epidemic that it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPublic Enemy is currently in the midst of an international tour. The group will perform at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall on June 27, with additional dates in the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Austria, Serbia, Hungary, and Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fiery track is a collaboration with a group of student lyricists and producers Public Enemy has released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,23312,217,23313,231,772,1544,23314],"class_list":{"0":"post-111760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chuck-d","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-flavor-flav","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-public-enemy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114715031409371243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}