Chuck D and Public Enemy are continuing their tirade against the music industry with a new song called "Swindler's Lust," which is currently posted on the band's official website.

The song (a free download for pc users www.public-enemy.com-->), rails against the 'big six' record labels -- now the 'big five' following the sale of Polygram to Universal. Polygram (now Universal) had previously forced the band to remove MP3 files taken from a new megamix record (see "Public Enemy Remix Album Pulled From The Net").

Chuck D introduces "Swindler's Lust" with a note on the site that reads, in part: "A lotta folk been had by the execs and legal lust of the industry. So this is anti-corporatism, and watch the reaction to this lyrical swirl."

"Gotta li'l rhyme but we barely get a dime," he raps in the song itself. "If you don't own da master then da master own you / Who you trust from Swindler's Lust."

"Hand in my pocket / Rob me for my chocolate / Mo' dollars mo' cents for the big six."

The song specifically accuses the labels of cheating black musicians out of royalties, session fees and a fair share of the pie from the fifties to the nineties.

"This is the blues people in the delta / This is for everybody in their fifties who didn't get their money / Little Richard gettin half a penny / All da super soul singers of the sixties / All the bands of the seventies on the outside lookin in / All the people that didn't make a dime / Off their session playing / And even da rappers in 80s and 90s / Still tryin' to get paid / For what they put in."

Universal says that it has no plans to stop PE from posting the song.