Music

Fans raise enough money for new Public Enemy album

by Ciaran Thompson

Public Enemy fans have raised £51,000 (roughly $72,000) for the iconic rap/hip-hop group to record a new album, their first since 2007’s How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul.

The group brought awareness to their financial trouble last year when they signed onto Sellaband, a website where fans can donate money to artists to pay for the making of a professional album. Fans can invest up to £17 per visit in exchange for the album. Bigger donations would be rewarded with band various band memorabilia.

“We just received word that our fund raising campaign has completed,” the band said in a post on the website. “This is truly a great moment for us and we owe it all to our fams on SellaBand – our true ‘Believers.’ We’ve had explosive starts, media attention, corporate troubles, media criticism, recalculations and finally resurgence. When its all said and done, the bottom line is that we never lost faith in ourselves, our fams and the future of fan funding as a model.”