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Public Enemy. Their latest release, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down, is on our list of the best new albums out on Sept. 25. Eitan Miskevich/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Lil Baby performs during a Juneteenth voter registration rally on June 19, 2020 at Murphy Park Fairgrounds in Atlanta, Ga. One week earlier, he released "The Bigger Picture," a song protesting police brutality. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
Flavor Flav, left, and Chuck D, photographed on May 1, 1987. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
Bruce Springsteen in 1985, performing in Washington, D.C. during his Born in the U.S.A. Tour. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Slick Rick released his debut album The Great Adventures of Slick Rick in 1988. Al Pereira/Getty Images hide caption
How Slick Rick And Queen Latifah 'Breathed Life Into Hip-Hop' In 1988
The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was released on Oct. 18, 1988. Courtesy of Wilbury hide caption
Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and Chuck D of Public Enemy perform at Freedom Hill Amphitheater on August 6, 2016 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Scott Legato/Getty Images hide caption
Photographer Kevin Wells, 50, drove Flavor Flav, Chuck D and their entourage to a show in his Ford Focus. Kevin Wells/Twitter hide caption
Hank Shocklee, of Public Enemy's production team The Bomb Squad, in Austin, Texas for an interview with Microphone Check. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption
Public Enemy on stage in 1988. The group will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame Thursday. Suzie Gibbons/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
Tego Calderon, one of Reggaeton's top artists and producers, performs for fans in New York City. Scott Gries/Getty Images hide caption
The Horrors (clockwise from left), Public Enemy, and Swans, just a few of the artists featured at this year's All Tomorrow's Parties festival.
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Public Enemy performs at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, N.J., on Sunday night.
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Melissa Block circa 1974 at Camp Kokosing Courtesy of Melissa Block hide caption