Hip-hop legends Public Enemy may have been in the game for nigh on a quarter of a century, but that doesn’t mean the end is in sight for the New York group. Rather, the pioneers plan to release not one, but two, new albums this year.

First up will be Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp, due for release in June, followed by The Evil Empire of Everything in September. Group mouthpiece Chuck D described the albums as “two concise statements that are connected in the same breath”.

But that’s not the only thing on the agenda for Chuck D. The rapper, who has long made political statements with the group’s music, also announced plans to address journalists from LA’s notoriously poor Skid Row. Chuck D told Billboard that he wants to highlight the effects of America’s housing crisis on the district, which has one of the largest populations of homeless persons in the United States.

“Skid Row has been called ‘the dirty secret of LA’ for, like, forever” he explained. “And so, I’m gonna be loud about it.”

“What other place do I have? My place in hip-hop is not to be a tycoon, making trillions with a yacht. That’s not my place. My place is maybe bringing people together and me being able to identify and illuminate a cause, and we’ll make it comfortable for them to be themselves but say what they’ve really been wanting to say all along, you know, with my protection.”