As we reported back in April, Public Enemy and website Sellaband restructured their arrangement deal as PE was unable to get the original $250K needed to fund their next album. The new terms were that fans only needed to fund $75K. A respectable figure you would think. However, even with this new deal, things are not going as planned for Public Enemy or the Sellaband website. To date, Public Enemy has only met 74% of the goal ($56K of the $75K). Yes, they will make their goal but the fact that it is taking this long shows the broken logic behind Sellaband.

Why should fans have to PAY to help the album get made then pay to actually own it? Especially at a time when people can barely afford rent or their latest trip to McDonald’s. Regardless, as life long PE fans we hope this all works out but something tells me after this PE deal is done…don’t expect any big time rappers to come following.