Public Enemy made a giant splash at the 2020 BET Awards on Sunday night (June 28) when they opened the annual ceremony with an alternate version of “Fight The Power” featuring Nas, Questlove, YG, Black Thought, Rapsody and Enemy Radio’s Jahi.
The performance came on the heels of Chuck D, Flavor Flav and DJ Lord’s new video for “State Of The Union (STFU),” an in-your-face, anti-Trump protest anthem. On Tuesday night (June 30), Chuck appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time segment with host Chris Cuomo and talked about the DJ Premier-assisted song.
Chuck insisted it was time for Trump to vacate the office, or as he put it, “Nixonize” him.
“We’re saying go back to your casinos, your buildings, your fake reality shows — go back to the USFL,” he said. “You just don’t need to be president … You have to be a fool not to see this ridiculousness going on right now and the song answers to that.
“You gotta Nixonize him,” he said. “I say nix him now. N-I-X-H-I-M-N-O-W. I happen to be old enough to remember that there was so much foolishness done by a president that he had to walk away and they forced him to walk away. It’s like you created too much havoc and BS. ”
As Chuck continued, he explained Trump is simply “not playing by the rules” and admitted the lyrics to “State Of The Union” could be considered disrespectful — but it’s fair game at this point.
“The song that I wrote, it has inappropriate language but in context, it’s appropriate for the dude that’s been inappropriate as president,” he said. “Simple as that. Music can make that change.”
Public Enemy, Nas, Rapsody, YG & Black Thought 'Fight The Power' To Open 2020 BET Awards
“State Of The Union (STFU)” arrived on Juneteenth and spoke to the current civil unrest in the United States. As protests continue to erupt in the name of George Floyd and other black people who have lost their lives at the hand of police, Public Enemy’s collective voice is louder than ever.
“The rest of the planet is on our side,” Chuck said. “But it’s not enough to talk about change. You have to show up and demand change. Folks gotta vote like their lives depend on it, ‘cause it does.”
Flavor echoed Chuck’s sentiments to Cuomo, saying, “Public Enemy tells it like it is. It’s time for him [Trump] to GO!”
I think BLM is inappropriate… It should be ALM (All Lives Matter).
Also, Biden would be even more inappropriate as president. Dude can’t even string a few words together.
Americans have gone crazy. Craziness is the real epidemic, obviously.
At least when he DOES string together a sentence it’s full of lies and advice to inject yourself with bleach. I’ll take Joe over President grab em by the coochie all day. Shit I’d vote for ya stankin ass moms over Trump
Not full of lies typo bitch
Um yeah, Trump likes grown women. Biden is a pedophile, and there is plenty of evidence of him touching kids inappropriately and sniffing them. Also, when the phuck has Biden ever made a coherent speech or even a sentence? That idiot is about as retarded as the people who will vote for him. President Trump has done great things for this country, but you wouldn’t understand because it’s way over your head. Just keep living w mol and everything will be fine for your EBT ass.
U don’t need to insult the guy’s Mother for having an opinion. Grow up.
Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red… shiiit we all matter in life and fuck a skin color because we all the same on the inside. It really should be the ALM movement. Just my feelings on it. Peace.
Chuck D supports Joe “mass incarceration” Biden that WROTE the 1994 crime bill that CREATED the prison-industrial-complex and locked up millions of blacks since 1994.
Obama and Biden spent 8 years as pres/VP doing NOTHING to fix the Biden policy and instead Obama and Biden kept locking up blacks in massive numbers for 8 years.
Trump STOPPED the mass incarceration with first step act and second step act after Kanye and Kim had talked to Trump about the problems created by Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill.
Chuck D should be BOOED everywhere for supporting Joe “mass incarceration” Biden!!!
Naw he supported Bernie, not Joe…get the facts straight
Bro… Get your facts straight and actually do research. Nixon’s “War on drugs” exacerbated the mass incarceration crisis. Reagan’s Anti Drug Abuse act of 1986 led to the all time highest incarceration rates of non-violent black men. Because of ADA 1986, arrests of non-violent black men peeked in 1990. By, the time the 1994 Bill was signed, the prison industrial complex was already in full effect. The 1994 bill added fire to an already racist criminal justice system. But Obama/Biden’s signature legislation was the signing of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. The incarceration rate of black men actually decreased during the Obama years by over 20%– a downward trend that had actually started in about 2005. Obama also commuted the sentences of a record number of non-violent drug offenders. And finally, the consent decrees that were established by the Obama DOJ came from the 1994 crime bill that was widely supported by 22 members of the congressional black caucus, church leaders, community organizations, Bernie Sanders and black people nationwide.
Reading and learning are fundamental!
It is baffling that Chuck thinks the Democrats will be any different.
How about white racist Trump ass kissers get their own page. You so jealous of us that you’re stalking us like we’re fucking. We’re gonna stay with BLM. Every time we do something you want to take it or substitute it with something else. Not this time. Trump is not black people hero just because Kim let him suck a tidy. The truth is Kim kids are black. So of course now its concerning to her. All her money can’t stop them for being considered a nigga by white people. She’s been rich and black people been locked up for crimes they didn’t commit. So get real. Trump fucked the whole U.S. with his dumb ass. His ugly orange ass should of kept the white sheet over his head. He’s nothing but a racist jackass fool. He’s like a fart that the smell won’t go away. He’s like a nightmare but you’re woke. He’s like the boy who cried wolf. Stood holding a Bible backwards just like his ass going out the world, backwards. Always standing their sniffing after staying up all night snorting pills and getting on twitter.. He don’t drink because he’s a pill junkie passing Covid to everybody around him while not wearing a mask. Telling everyone to hate anyone that’s not white but married to a foreign Bitch that can’t speak English. Claiming everyone is low class bums but his wife a pass around bought hoer. If he can stand in front of the world push hate call names and lie than I can use my freedom of speech to express my views. You may not like it but its my right to speak. How does it feel when the tables turn