Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025

by Public Enemy

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1.
Siick 04:52
This song is sick Where the people are sick Man this air is thick Can’t breathe right 25 world feels sick Economy’s flipped stocks done took a dip CEO chaos now everybody sick AI running sht human beings kicked Outta their jobs now you really sick Politicians talking with that lying trick Promises promises but none that stick Dreams dissolving like a candle wick No problem solvin the people tricked In a world gone down with leaders sick Lost in the shot clock that tick tick tick No dancin on the edge now isn’t that sick Voices lost in the noises Y’all trying to pick Truth in the shadows now ain’t that sick Society spinning, got cold like brick Walls going up, yet crumbling quick Voices silent, nothing to click 2026 it’s all looking sick This song is sick this society sick Where the nation be sick Hatred be sick Temperature rising climate thick Weather patterns changing got y’all sick Natures furious can’t duck that shit Mama earths response gots y’all sick Eyes on screens vision got sick Lost in the media yo minds done slipped Communication dead emoji’s picked Feelings numbed out, emotionally sick Truth buried deep now ain’t that sick You in love with a bot and mad at it Hours of chaos that love is a trick Oceans rise see that oil slick Clock running out no flavor switch They scared of aging no magic fix Technology chains y’all thought y’all picked The future is locked ain’t that a bitch This track is sick Heart attack sick Broke like a stroke Blood pressure sick No joke Clock running out no flavor switch They all scared of aging no magic fix Eyes are glazed Hypnotic flick Voices screaming They just a click Disconnected heads Connections sick Identified lost Society sick The voices are silent...
2.
Flavor Flav is Focus I’m back to the game just killing you jokers Rock Hall better know who the goat is Planet Hollywood Better know who the host is Catch me at the bar feeding people mimosas Me and Chuck back everybody can post this This is for the fans and all the posters Hey there’s not a time I’m moving ferocious Flavor’s at the bar you could take it in doses My Uzi weighs a ton. All you haters can hold this. Fingers in the air to you culture vultures Flav come through since your boy been sober Catch me on tour I’m around the solar This is how you went from New York to Angola It’s been about a minute not a break is over King Swift Are your boy is a roller No stumblin mumbling Gangster dice tumbling Jabo Clyde Stubblefield lovin Ain’t that something Polyester rubbin When yall hearing These S1W Beats come in Break them sticks Over hi hats and bass kicks MCs no longer Rhyme like this Some of them spend the rhyme Singing to keyboards ringing Whistling dixie Watch most of it miss me Kiss me We gonna have lotsa fun Dancin, skatin on these hard core drums Son we rock ya mama Grandmama tell her These drums make her go Grab a young fella Fela fela These beats is danger Rampage the key orchestrator Arranger Oh Felony? Is that what y’all telling me? He made these beats in 5 minutes Are you kidding me!?!?
3.
It takes a Nation Is it just my hallucination? These microphones Designed like war drones Who drop bombs Upon women children and moms Gots the nerve to bring it here In this atmosphere Who really cares? Even those closest near Pickup trucks creatin fear Who wake up caught Mad at the mirror Woke with nobody to hear ya With a bad attitude Forget how you look Because ugly is under your face my dude No biggie I figured Can you rap a verse Without first writing a curse Diamond in the teeth Media beef Diggin the scene on the sht I’m seeing Hmmmm… Create fast like Your gonna die tomorrow Posting ain’t talking Texting ain’t writing Scrolling and reading Grits ain’t groceries cyborg soul Chess ain’t checkers I’m in a world you can hope to get to Better pray your current world Don’t forget you let you I’m everywhere nowhere at the same time Should be a crime Now losing my rhyme 64 bars to memorize Saw a shrink to help me get it hypnotized Hmmmm… Five fingers of Black Death Hypertension Diabetes Cancer Stress Toxic worst of everything Bad food fueling the youth Killin middle age Killing OG’s too More than street beef and shootin Is it beef stuck in your teeth What is you doin? Time is like a river Running like dark liquor on the liver Fix my moth to deliver Hmmmm…
4.
This is Flavor Flav season Rollie bust down no I’m not leaving Hype man chameleon I never stop breathing Catch me on tour, this is how I’m freaking Get into this money every single weekend Yeah you can get your face leaking Put that on God this is how I’m speaking This is revelations and this is what I’m preaching No swine your boy strictly vegan The devil’s a liar, and trying to ease in You voted for wrong that’s treason I’m buzzing the streets like Tommy Eagan See I’m back on my grind you people sleeping See I’m walking in Faith this is how I’m leaping You see the PE logo press allegiance Flavor Flav on deck you know the reason!!! Get it 1973 never forget it New York city when them Yankees forfeited The next 2 years as the ballpark quitted Hip hop saved the day and the people got wit it South Bronx before dem major league fitteds Rappers found a record Let the DJ spin it Breakers break to What the DJ Play Get on down to what the MC say Rock on get down to the sound Peace unity love in the New York town 5 boroughs Metropolitan thorough Connecticut Strong Island New Jersey circle Upstate how Hip Hop spread around The USA the whole world see the planet get down Get Down Just spread it around It’s this OG hip hop in your town Don’t frown stop messing around It’s this old school Rap comin to your town
5.
Evil Ways 04:32
Lawlessness Badlands Uncivilized You a bad man But even the baddest Savages eventually get humbled by the averages Donkey of the day Ass with no pass Addicted to the screens screaming for the laughs What I got to do with you being you River deep, mountain high like the best of your crew I got the leader of the pack that don’t give a track About nobody praying In a whirl they be playing Why swole your ego to think you gonna Getaway with crime Cameras everywhere this ain’t 1985 You got to change Your evil way No gangster It ain’t the way I wanna go You gots to change these strangers A better way I want y’all to know Change Your Evil way What goes up Comes back down Gravity gotta way to bring down clowns Stumbling on the face tumbled down a staircase Evil is a terrible waste Let’s go download this muther for ya... We the roll baby Millennial wild crack rugged grandchild Bone chillin killers Movie made matinee thriller Gun gun gun Homie homicide take a ride Run run run Yo, you cannot hide From your folly hello dolly Unless you get a pardon A Biden by a law You and I never saw Let these gangsters out the door Gots the nerve of a red pickup truckin mother Son of a bad ass Magger hunting down in Badlands Woke up mad in the mirror With a bad attitude Ugly is under that face my dude Everything ain’t funny another slave to the money Hunted down like a dog now You’se a slave to the runnin
6.
Sexegenarian 03:06
Here’s to the young to the old Different chapters different books Truth be told 35 and wild I’m 65 and wise Generations apart both trying to rise Up beyond clashing ages Smoking stages protesting through the rages 65 and coolin live Life’s a vape in my hand You 35 and stressed trying to make it man I hear you Damn about doubt just run them laps But you luv them apps so I’mma take this nap Cause you drunk on fame tryin to get that name Chasing them likes instead of rocking the mic If great is wack then I’m silver and black At this stage and age I raid that sour grapes attack You are what you ate you think how you drink Sexagenarian Vape the Box and The Tapes Texting fast you’re on the go I’m takin it slow You hitting screen I gotta book, Yo! Think I’m worried about looks no Forget trends and friends you don’t know Vapin the future avoid the mess tripping on stress Pop Pop got that Hiphop Makes that pop pop pop stop I don’t hit bars never bought a new car Sexagenarian Vape I rock the box and the tapes Fear of a black superhero Wearing the cape At this age I smoke the stage Sexagenarian Vape Sexagenarian Vape I digs into them Old school crates Thumbing through them OG greats Away from the Age of sour grapes of hate Sexagenarian Vape
7.
Messy Hens 03:22
The F the L the A the V The one the only This is me boy… Drunk People talking bout ME I let them talk, I let them gossip I’mma keep doing me, and I won’t stop it But I ain’t worried I’m too busy I ain’t worried Making hits in a hurry They be drunk, they be gossipin’ See this clock ain’t no stoppin it I ain’t bothered, lets get it poppin yo Hall of fame I’m the roll and rockin it What they know about the Flavor Flav lifestyle? They say I’m crazy maybe I’m wild Ain’t Worried Bout another Sucker Talkin Bout Messy Hens on Hennessy Gossipin Trippin On Me Flavor Flav, the clock-wearing legend Got women talkin’ ‘bout him, but I ain’t stressin’ But drunk suckers talkin’ ‘bout me and my clocks But I ain’t worried, I’m too busy makin’ hits nonstop Flavor Flav the one and only Clocks on my neck, yo wait a second They don’t know nothin’ ‘bout me Doin what I wanna do The F the L the A the V the one and only My legacy is never phony Ain’t Worried Bout another Sucker Talkin Bout Messy Hens on Hennessy Gossipin Trippin On Me Drunk people talkin’ ‘bout my clocks I ain’t worried, I won’t stop Flavor Flav I make Hip Hop Kiss my clock they can kick rocks I’mma keep doing me till my time stops Hip Hop legend known around the world I’m too busy being Flav, girl So let em talk, let em gossip I’m a keep doing me they can’t stop it Drunk people talking about me Ain’t Worried Bout another Sucker Talkin Bout Messy Hens on Hennessy Gossipin Trippin On Me Stop these Messy Hens on Hennessy messing with me
8.
Fooled around and found out Thought it didn’t count Now the symphony of chaos Singing sounds of doom and doubt Hell is near the writing on the wall is clear Public Opinion boiled in the year of fear The dreamers the fighters the bold from the ashes Just us look out as the wall crashes The youth the future the echo the cries Time is now woke up realized the rise The wise operator teaching from the third eye Policy is poisoned Bibles pointed to the sky Why cities drownin Forests burning up the skies Global climate shifted ain’t nobody believe those guys? Those that don’t know don’t they always be talking Those that always talking seem to really never know Fools fool fools Kill that Autotune Jigga told y’all years ago There ain’t enough room Nature yelling loud speaking in loud raging cries History repeats in the ignorance of time January wake 2025 survive reimagined struggle As these ages rewind Fools fool fools Spinning webs of deceit In the game of power who not feeling that heat Bang them drums so their mamma can get some Set the world on fire as they run run run This masquerade parade spinning in web of charades The game of power got the blood coming down in the shower Fools fool fools Lying behind their likes Used to be 5 mic the liars change the rules Truth be told they killin life like black mold So young can never get old it’s dangerous to behold So called land of liberty watch Democracy shakes As the world turns and as the Earth quakes Dreams reborn in the ashes of deceit Harmonies found on this bomb ass beat Fools fool fools but the wise will rise Locally to globally righteousness... Survives
9.
Flavor Flav fresh off the plane Got your boy in the Rock Hall of Fame You see my clock Dookie chain Since the 80s your boy got the fame I’ve been on that money train More groupies that I can’t explain This time around I ain’t playing no games Haters hate I’m burn em them in the flames I ball just like LeBron James Public Enemy tour that’s how we bang You miserable niggas is all lame Lollapalooza me, and my gang You niggas is wishing I never came Y’all just Pinky and The Brain Or you suckers could take this in pain My Lambo outside that purple rain Your boys is a legend I’ll leave a stain You can call me Crazy Doctor Strange You don’t stop See we never drop the hip when we hop I got 99% percent and a trick ain’t one Miuzi weighs a ton so we never really had to run Comin thru so it’s time to put it on ya Protest hear a riot goin on ya Cut the check from here to California I talk race, yo ass think in Daytona Flav a swinger, I’m the mad thinker This spit contingentw here y’all thinkin as a soul singer Reparation poor sister still linger Spit a fly verse spot a fly track Nowadays I still curse Truth hurts it’s wack 40 acres we still lack, depression Smoked a fool sack Sht I’m never gonna get my fkn quarterback
10.
Ageism 04:05
Been their age they ain’t never been mine People don’t dance no more They AI Watching nodding starin at the dance floor What y’all think these drums is for? Left right body ya stereo at least skate that ass Gotcha cardio This sweat ain’t played on your radio What’s that, Youtube? Means a video Samples cleared have no fear Songs that mean something or else they outta here Talking loud sayin nothing you know the steez C-Doc is Brian Eno... Next beat please Ageism stuck in the bitterverse Get up and pretend that sht don’t hurt Pharma Farming out to one big curse What the???? I wanna get reimbursed Rhyme gymnastics Nasty I’m 6-4 Not in height it’s the age and stage I fight Father Time ain’t never lost Voice a earthquake Don’t forget Mother Nature still a boss See the Black Planet they fear Y’all lucky if you get here Black don’t crack but it can die Rhymes that got nothing can’t answer questions why If you gonna get down without thinking Old age villains smoking drinking Park the Lincoln I’m telling my ageism Sh*t is way worse than racism, Call your mama… This the curmudgeon clap Call it Armageddon rap Now believing heathen Who swore real money was the church of crack 40 years later Wild child try to style that TV shows and movies Damn, I’m call it wack White execs getting checks try to bring it back Green light in some dark ass times That’s why I’m spitting these old ass rhymes Mongrel still selling as a glory time Watchin Black mogul catchin jail time Impeach the government before he even startin it Y’all follow those Bots and got a piece of Double Mint Dissed a sister just like they dissed your mama 47 is the president but I voted for Kamala I’m 65 partially blind in one eye Got the nerve to compare me to another fucking time I’m running the same goddamn thing you running Up the side of my mouth but you young gunnin With no excuse so you better I’m a sit out and watch while you fuck around and find out And run into a go getta Tell Maria I’mma write this letter I don’t drink what you drink I don’t smoke what you smoke In fact I don’t drink at all but you can drown in waterfalls Pharmaceuticals out for you and I only rub alcohol Funeral homes wanting your final call I don’t dig what you dig I don’t pick up your slang Enough with the old bitter verse I can’t hang
11.
The world go round Gee, Round and round Gee Knock Us Down We, Won’t Stop Now Be Leaders Lie Cheat, Haters Fight These People Die Streets, World on Fire You Can’t Stop Me, Man its Crazy Human Life Been Replaced by AI Flavor Flav still the same No Way I Ever Change Time Moves on But The Clock Remains Whatcha got You gotta do something (3x) The Hits Just Keep on Coming Get It, for we cannot stop We must get in this Revolution Wake Up America, Wake Up, Come on! Rap verses, Catchy hooks Turn up that dial, One for the books Yo Bum Rush the Style, Papa Gone Wild Hits Keep on Coming, Oh Whoop that Child Let the Beats Drop, Let the Hits Play Peep the Speakers, Do What Flavor Say Listen, Y’all Got Radio Permission Hit em Hard, Knock em out of commission
12.
Yeah, Yeah Now I’m America’s Nightmare A Debonair Black Millionaire (Boy) Sick of these crooked politicians who aint playin fair Shut up, too much talk, We know you dont care Kids making war, Hands in the air Yeahhh Booyyy! We still gonna bring noise These troops will deploy, Word up Better run better run better run run run 911 is still a joke So no Motherfucker you aint getting my vote You don’t want this smoke Flavor flav is the goat I don’t need to throw hands I got bands and bands March Madness Tell Em Who’s the Baddest Step Into the Blackness Right, Left, Left, Right, Left Right, Left, Left, Right, Left Trigger Happy High Wanna ask a question Does a gun need to be in the school And teacher nones Kids supposed to have fun None of this Run for cover For your life, son Grade One to Twelve Even kindergarten Need security From this sick trend started Left right marching To the courtyard Lines of school personnel Escaping from this hell Over and over again Dream turned nightmare Parents dropping off their children in fear Lawmakers acting scared Off the NRA Refusing to change Year after year Letting em fall down the stairs To get out of the building Full of blood stained tears March Madness Tell Em Who’s the Baddest Step into the Blackness

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released June 27, 2025

Executive Producers: Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Lorrie "The LBX" Boula, Rhiannon Rae Ellis
Sequenced and Edited by C-Doc
Mastered by Shawn Franklin at “S.T.O.H.” Labs for TDX
Cover Art by Chuck D
Photo by Eitan Miskevich
Layout & Design by DC Snyder
Lyric Administrator for Soundspeak: Dominique Ryder
Management: Lorrie Boula for Soul Kitchen, Rhiannon Rae Ellis for Moves Management
Project Manager for Soul Kitchen: Kevin Abrantes

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