"The original intention was to get your attention" - Chuck D said on Talib Kweli's weekly show People's Party about the public feud he had with Flavor Flav over Bernie Sanders. When Kweli noted that Flavor said he can't be fired, Chuck agreed - "He can't, he's a partner". To prove it, Chuck D announced their new album 'The Enemy Radio', made as a duo, and today they released the first single 'Food as a Machine Gun'.

Many successful bands benefit from the push and pull between one member who believes that music should be a vessel for ideas and activism and one who just wants to give people a good time, the optimal result being music that is simultaneously righteous and fun - Guardian writes about the curious/unfortunate Public Enemy split, supposedly over Bernie Sanders. “Chuck D, he’s the politician of the group. I’m just the friendly jester” - Flavor Flav said. "It’s a shame that after 35 years Public Enemy is no longer able to contain both impulses, but whoever is to blame, it’s not Bernie Sanders" - the G said; adding a good point: "Band dynamics are as hard to fathom as other people’s marriages, which is why our cultural obsession with splits and reunions goes far beyond music. They are case studies in the forces that bring people together and drive them apart".

Public Enemy have parted ways with their charismatic MC Flavor Flav, after more than 35 years, Rolling Stone reports. The dismissal came two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders' campaign after his bandmates said they'd appear at one of his rallies in Los Angeles. Frontman Chuck D suggested on Twitter the disagreement over Sanders' rally was financially, not politically, motivated - "i there was a $bag, Flav would've been there front & centre. He will NOT do free benefit shows". Flavor Flav's cease-and-desist letter accused the campaign of using his "unauthorised likeness, image and trademarked clock in promotional materials" for a Los Angeles rally, even though the rapper "has not endorsed any political candidate". Public Enemy later performed at Sanders' LA rally, under the Public Enemy Radio banner - featuring Chuck D, DJ Lord, Jahi and the S1Ws.