Public Enemy’s Latest is an Homage to the Motherland & All of Her Pain (Video)

In July, Public Enemy released Man Plans God Laughs, the 13th studio album from the Long Island, New York icons. Reportedly inspired by the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Run the Jewels, the album is replete with the content familiar to P.E. Heads – politics, thought-provoking content, and unbridled depictions of life not only in America, but also the world. In the video for “Mine Again,” the group presents a photographic ode to Africa, the land considered by most to be the cradle of civilization, and the birthplace of mankind. The video follows “No Sympathy From the Devil,” a similarly critical song with an equally critical video. The latest video takes a more straightforward approach, but is nonetheless moving.

With the names of all 53 African countries spliced into images of Chuck D rhyming in an African landscape and footage of African men, women, and children, the video serves as a reminder of where we come from, regardless of skin color. A visual component to the song’s lyrical call to action, the video is a brief but compelling PSA of sorts in that it celebrates the diversity and beauty of the world’s second-largest continent while also remarking on the area’s long history of civil wars, famine, disease, poverty, and colonization. Check it out.

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