Chuck D makes bold political statement in Consequence collab ahead of Donald Trump's presidential victory

Chuck D mads his feelings wide connected the authorities of nine amid this week's statesmanlike contention successful the aftermath of the merchandise of a music video for his collaboration with Consequence, What Has America Done.

The way from the Public Enemy rapper, 64, and Consequence, 47, focuses connected the challenges Black radical gait successful America, coming astatine a turbulent clip successful which President-elect Donald Trump was elected to a 2nd term.

Chuck D spoke to TMZ Thursday, 2 days aft Vice President Kamala Harris fell abbreviated successful her bid to go the archetypal pistillate Black president.

The Fight the Power rapper said that Harris' run was sabotaged by atrocious cyber actors during the predetermination cycle.

'Avatars similar they're the caller Klan hoodies - the much things change, the much they enactment the SAME!!!' the philharmonic artist, whose afloat sanction is Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, told TMZ Hip Hop Thursday. 

He added: 'Like it oregon not, particularly if you're African American, we indispensable proceed to prosecute our equality and marque definite we bash everything successful our powerfulness to level the playing tract arsenic champion we perchance can.'

The Bring the Noise performer, who drew promotional creation for the single, said that 'in doing so, we tin hide wherever we've been and what it took to get wherever we are.'

Lyrics successful the way include: 'So what has America done for me?/Push the extremity enactment further?/Accuse maine of murder?/Fed maine French fries and burgers?'

The way is featured connected Consequence's medium Nice Doing Business With You, and besides includes vocals from Tony Williams of The Wrldfms, TMZ reported.

The socially-conscious video from the artists - which depicts scenes of radical discrimination, homelessness and  constabulary enactment - is among the aboriginal returns focused connected the changing times amid Trump's 2nd win. 

Since President-elect Trump clinched his instrumentality to the White House, Margaret Atwood's dystopian classical The Handmaid's Tale - astir a state successful which women are brutally repressed - has been precocious connected the Amazon.com champion seller list.

The Handmaid's Tale was fashionable passim Trump's archetypal term, on with specified acheronian futuristic narratives arsenic George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, some of which were successful the Amazon apical 40 arsenic of Thursday afternoon.

Another best-seller from Trump's erstwhile clip successful office, Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, was successful the apical 10.

Pro-Trump books besides were selling well. Former archetypal woman Melania Trump's memoir, Melania, was No. 1 connected the Amazon list, and Vice President-elect JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy was successful the apical 10. Donald Trump's photograph publication Save America was successful the apical 30.

At Barnes & Noble, 'Fiction and non-fiction books that diagnostic fascism, feminism, dystopian worlds and some right-and-left leaning authorities rocketed up our income charts with the predetermination results,' according to Shannon DeVito, the chain's manager of books.

She cited Melania On Tyranny and Bob Woodward's latest, War, which covers the responses of Trump and President Joe Biden to the conflicts successful Ukraine and the Middle East.

DeVito besides cited 'a monolithic bump successful dystopian fiction,' notably for The Handmaid's Tale and 1984.