Get Up Stand Up

Recorded during sessions for Public Enemy's twelfth studio album 'The Evil Empire of Everything', released in 2012, the track reflects Chuck D's continued engagement with protest-oriented lyricism and the group's independent production model under the Slam Jamz label. Released in 2012 on Slam Jamz as part of 'The Evil Empire of Everything', the track contributed to the album's broader political commentary at a moment of heightened social tension in the United States, maintaining Public Enemy's decades-long position as one of hip-hop's most consistently outspoken political voices. The track forms part of Public Enemy's extensive later-period output, which documents Chuck D's unbroken thread of social activism across more than three decades; the group's continued independent releases have been studied as a model for artist-controlled distribution in the streaming era.