Public Enemy “Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man” 1990. Def Jam Recordings. Today, March 16th, is Flavor Flav’s birthday (b. William Jonathan Drayton Jr., 1959) so I’m taking this 12″ single from Public Enemy’s amazing 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet out for a spin. “Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man” was the last single from the record, released in October 1990 (I’m not sure that it charted). The 12″ has two remixes of the track on Side A: the “U.K. 12″ Powermixx” and the “Dub Mixx,” both remixed by S.P. Jervier. Side B has two remixes of “Get the F— Outta Dodge” – the “Escapism 1991” and the “Censored Escapism Radio Version” mixes. “Get the F— Outta Dodge” appears on Public Enemy’s 1991 album Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black and is a song “about apartheid in America, in the form of noise pollution laws which are designed so that you can’t drive your car through a white neighborhood with your system playing loud. And I’m saying when the s–t gets that crazy, you’ve just got to get the f–k out of town. I got stopped a while back for playing my system too loud, ’cause I was a black guy riding through a white neighborhood in a jeep.” (Chuck D, Melody Maker). Also on the B-side is the “Extended Censored Fried to the Radio Version” of the excellent non-single track from Fear of a Black Planet “Burn Hollywood Burn,” one of my favorite songs from the album.