Posted by Back in 2014, when Chuck D was the official ambassador for Record Store Day, the Public Enemy firebrand met Doors drummer John Densmore on an RSD panel. As the story goes, a year later Chuck emailed Densmore the following: “You’ve got the beats, I’ve got the rhymes, let’s make doPE.” The name was intended as a combination of the Doors’ lowercase logo and the common Public Enemy abbreviation PE. Now the collaboration has finally come to fruition: Under the band name doPE, Chuck D and John Densmore made an album together.
Due out April 18 for Record Store Day, the debut doPE album is called no country for old men, which is kind of funny in a self-aware way. Its single “every tick tick tick” has been named Record Store Day’s 2026 Song Of The Year, which is extremely funny in a non-self-aware way.
According to a press release, the guidepost for the project was a message Densmore sent to Chuck after receiving some lyrical ideas: “Everybody gets older, but not everybody gets elder.” Chuck had this to say about Densmore’s contribution to the project: “John Densmore’s beat isn’t just rhythm, it’s history talking. He’s been scoring moments of our culture for decades, and that wisdom hits different when it meets the now. This collaboration is about locking generations together and pushing sound forward.”
It would be nice to actually hear “every tick tick tick” with this announcement to find out whether it really “captures that moment, as well as the times we’re living in,” per Record Store Day Co-Founder Michael Kurtz. But there’s no music yet, so you’ll just have to imagine it for now. In the meantime, check out the no country for old men tracklist below.
TRACKLIST:
side a:
“every tick tick tick”
“no country for old men”
“doomsay”
“the bones of my father”
“i love that i don’t know”
“people are strangers”
side b:
“breakthru”
“ops3ssion”
“dajali ii”
“everybody dies”
“no country for old men (dub)”
“saydoom (dub)”
no country for old men is out 4/18 via Org Music. Do you think they know there’s already a band called Dope?
