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  • Ill give them a chance cause im civilized... as for the rest of the world they cant realize!

  • bomb squad's magnum opus....this is what mozart woulda came up with, if he came back to life as a hip hop, b-boy.

  • ok i had it I wish you old ass people would shutdafucup!!!, its really getting on my nerves all yall do is complain and hate ughh. whatever the case favorite song off my second favorite album of all time.

  • I am just a fetus and this makes me go 'goo goo, ga ga'

  • Love PE but these lyrics make "Friday" seem like Shakespeare.

  • The current generation needs to purge the whites from the rap game. Get them the fuck out.

  • @ebonics4everyone what about drake

  • @yoitsblang Who's Drake?

  • @Dactuck shitty "rapper"

  • By far the best rap album of all time.

  • The best...ever!!!

  • all this still applies to us now.... we need more responsibillity in our music. Everyone not just kids are influenced by their music

  • what happened to real hip hop like this with a message? i guess people would rather be entertained nowadays. most so called rappers today are just coonig any way they should get it over with and perform in blackface

  • This is what it takes for peace so I just took a piece...

  • One of my favs! L.A LUV TO P.E. Miss rap with sense!

  • 'can't wait till the Mp4'...

  • Just paid up $19.99 at the record store for the CD, so now I like the Extra noise that only can come from the P.E beats, and it do'es take a Million +

  • Greatest hip-hop album ever.

  • \m/

  • crazy ass 80s 

  • I GREW UP ON REAL HIP HOP,LIKE P.E.WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT HIP HOP NOW ITS HISTORY...

  • #1 rap group of all time

  • i'm a metal head but i have to adimit public enemy is fucken insane !!

  • THIS IS THE REAL SHIT

  • no sellout

  • Damn ! Real rap has been hijacked a long time ago. Modern rappers can't even come close to this shit......

  • My beloved and sacred HIP HOP has been handed over to the highest bidder in the "Masters" house in exchange for some "Bling Bling". People!! Check the label's on your purchase!! If it does not say "MADE IN NEW YORK", then it is NOT HIP HOP!!!

  • o my god this is fucking amazing

  • stuff like this is why my computer's audio out is plugged into a JVC MX-GT88...

  • too dope beat..

  • kaput

  • Cracked.

  • People don't realize that the lyrics are still strong, the beats are just different. There are some commercial rappers out there but there are some real talent out there.

  • @jtsnookie I dont know about the lyrics still being strong. I like current hip hop dont get me wrong but like the other guy said its kinda turned into hip pop. Even the average MC from the 80s would murder most of these current MCs. Theres a handfull of exceptions mainly jay, lupe fiasco so on. But in todays hip hop for every jay z theres 5 or 10 soulja boys.

  • likes this one good pimping

  • P.E ON,1 . DJ(UNITE)MC - MADCHESTER -  UK.

  • pays da doktas bbbbooooyyyyssss!!!!!!!

  • @SpaceHead99 i know man, modern rap artists are garbage when it comes to songwriting and song structure...and the sad thing is people don't realize how horrible they are

  • awesome production for the time. love the way that reverse stab bounces of the bass line. lyrics are badass too.

    way ahead of its time

  • wow what a classic this is a masterpiece - hadn't listed to this in a while and it's an amazing rap song.

  • And to think that this song has been Vevo'd. Ridiculous.

  • Real rap with real lyrics that don't rely on an incomprehensible wall of profanity and ghetto slang about partying, money, shooting people, and disrespecting women. More power to Chuck D, keep up the good work, Mr. Drayton!

  • Had to look this up after listening to Isaac Hayes : - )

  • the higher the fewer

  • @ghost

  • Yeah u have a point, some of dat shit is terrible, str8 kid hokey pokey rap! lol

  • @carolinablueforlife Brotha i just want whats best for our music and our people and by that i mean all people who are used and abused, once upon a time Hip-Hop was the music of those people now a days its the music of jack ass kids who want to make a buck off their own kind by degrading our women and killing our brothers and sisters. That is not what Hip-Hop stands for, Hip-Hop was about fighting for our rights and protesting those who look to take advantage of us. We must educate the youth.

  • @GeneralGhost PE are one of the few rap artists I have any respect for at all, since they speak out about intelligent subjects and convey them in a serious manner. I hate modern rap since it has had nothing to say for a good 12-15 years or so now. It's degenerated into mindless party garbage like Lil' Wayne. Chuck D has every right to want to slap those ignorant fools in the head and school them on what it is to be a black man in America. Hails from a diehard headbanger to Chuck D!

  • @KamenRiderNecro  so i guess artist like jay electronica ,big k.r.i.t , kendrick lamar , j.cole are just trash huh???

  • I just love this song. PE has always been and will always be my favorite rap group!

  • @heatfan1967 I feel u 100 %

  • Im tired of all the georpahic prejudice with these comments. I listen to rap from every region from camron to three six to rass kass to nwa to run dmc to pastor troy to t.i. to wu tang. if yo shit is dope with sum kinda lyrical content i fux wit u!

  • @carolinablueforlife Georpahic prejudice is a hard way to put it cause i love many rappers from the south and west. My comments about the south was made because the fact the artist from the south at least the majority of the them are just plain garbage they degrade our once great Genre of music and have turned Hip-Hop into Hip-Pop, now the same can be said for every part of the country to a certain level but it just seems that the south takes pride in the Garbage that they help create.

  • the story and lyrics are ridiculous. these guys were too dumb to even understand politics let alone rap against the government. catchy beat though and an absolute classic

  • A classic! But I think Tricky's cover for this song is better, has bigger balls.

  • classic shit...all day

  • Original shit!!! This is real rap!!

  • Original shit!!!

  • I would like to thank Chuck D. for droppin lyrics like these. Comming up in 86,87,88,89 I was like 18yrs old. He gave alot us us a sense of pride of what it is to be black and proud. People some of us we never heard of, people like Joanne Chesimard really did exist. He had facts his music made us stronger, stronger meantally one of the realist BROTHER EVER!

  • This is an All time classic right here. Yo!!!

  • I am a die hard P.E fan but jesus. You people are racist and nutty as hell chill the fuck out.

  • Brings back good memories of way back when. This is real music therefore it never dies. Power to the people!

  • This song is dedicated to enlisted dissidents,Iraq and Afghanistan invasion vets that refused to deploy and re-deploy,as well as conscientious objectors of all wars.

  • modern 'rappers' argue that they are just telling it like it is, but on this chuck does that and so much more, he is a threat to the state because of his actions of empowerment, not merely a threat to some other 'stick up kid' that we hear so much about today.

    Oh and doesn't ever just 'chill at a club', he is the club that fights the man.

  • Public Enemy, Rakim and KRS1. What happened to NYC Mc's? How did we let the south take over and spread Hip-Pop? How did we let our selfs become so tainted. What happened to to the greatness of Hip Hop? What happen to my city? It started with NYC and we will bring it back to NYC one step at a time.

  • @GeneralGhost WHEN BOB JOHNSON SOLD B.E.T. TO VIACOM BACK IN 1997, EVERYTHING STARTED TO SLOWLY CHANGE....THAT'S WHEN MASTER P AND PUFF DADDY STARTED RAPPING...EVERYTHING WENT DOWNHILL FROM THEIR....NOW HIP HOP IS A MESS

  • @GeneralGhost *ourselves

  • @GeneralGhost THE WHITEMAN GOT HIS EVIL HANDS ON IT!!!..LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE TOUCHES HE DESTROYS

  • @AFRICA4AFRICANS Muwaaaaaaaahahahahaha

  • @GeneralGhost westside 2pac bitch

  • @fyocouchnickel STFU

  • @fyocouchnickel There is no west with out the east, think before u speak brotha.

  • @GeneralGhost Shiny suits killed hip hop not the south

  • @GeneralGhost : They're all lurking underground still making real shit.

  • @GeneralGhost

    AND New Jersey :D

  • @GeneralGhost Homosexuals and agents (illuminati sellouts) like Puffy mommy and Gay-Z were appointed from NYC.

  • @GeneralGhost .........Rappers started earning $100 million dollar advances from Live Nation for example. That what Jay z got. I'd sell out for $100 million dollars too. Fuck it.

  • @chrissline77 I agree to a point, in these tough times its easy to take the money and run. Most end up doing so but my question would be how much is enough? At what point do you say im done selling out my family, my friends, my people and of course myself. I look at Dave Chappelle who left 200+ Million on the table because he was tired of exploiting his people, most cats in rap and hip hop are so taken over by greed that they forget about whats most important and let the money control them.

  • @GeneralGhost all in all, I must ask myself, what is the going price for a SOUL these days? (priceless for me.)

  • @sevenmc1 a rented car, some rented rims, a rented house, a sheisty record deal & gettin poked in the bootyhole lol

  • @Kbsantangelo

    LMFBAO!!!

  • @GeneralGhost ....simple. Capitalism. Thats happened to Rap. Hip hop began to reflect the ethos of America. Greed, ruthlessness, lack of empathy for one's fellow man, and a total aversion to social consciousness. Dont you think that the records and albums of today accurately reflect the social sociopaths that make up the body of the American populous?

  • @flipgood89 I agree 100%, every time me and friends have this debate that is the point we all seem to agree on. Capitalism always seems to be the root of all evils but more importantly as you said the Greed that Capitalism creates. The U.S. is built the idea of "whats mine is mine and whats yours will be mine". That idea builds a mentality of "Get rich or die trying" amongst colored people which has poisoned our youth and created a environment that rewards violence, disrespect, and desperation.

  • @GeneralGhost ....yes! so encouraged to hear from somebody that knows whats up. Its the first step towards change. Now we have to spring into action. The world needs you! Shout out to Chuck D!

  • @GeneralGhost Did U shoot Tupac???

  • I gotta get out - but that thought was thought before

    I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

    - genius!

  • bad ass tune.....deep.

  • is true public enemy is the best and a shit for all modern rappers are shit

  • we used to sing this in Army Basic Training - oh the irony!

  • raw shit

  • Cataclysm would happen before hip hop got this much balls again!

  • Fuck Flava Flava that rasicst bastard.

  • I don't know if there has ever been a song that FEELS just like it's lyrical content more that this one. This song is so intense!  It feels like the somebody lit a powder keg.

  • sick fuckin beat. goooo terminator x !

  • I was actually directed here by Crack and all I have to say is I wish this kind of hip hop was still around. Got to admit though I don't think I would ever call Flava flav to get me out of jailXD

  • I had no idea that Public Enemy fans were a bunch of conspiracy nuts. Wow.

  • FUCK THE HOUSE-NIGGER OBAMA !!!

    IT'S TIME FOR WAR AGAINST AMERIKKKA & THE NWO !!!

  • all I know is that this song is the truth it had me wanting to act a fool in prison. you can feel it you just want to release you pain on some oppresser.

  • fuk em and that corrupt filth they call the military industrial complex!! they staged them attacks of 911 to get their WAR on!!

  • 7 people don't know shit about real music

    7 people wanted Chuck D to go to the armed forces to fight the white man's war.

  • @turtlehead2 yeah 7 retards think wars are cute and dead soldiers are cute!!! makes me sick

  • Yeah and where gonna keep on doing this..YOU CAN'T STOP THE BUMRUSH...DOWN WITH THE NWO!!!!

  • Damn we need PE more than ever these days! To counteract all of this nonsense!

  • Just for info everybody, the Shockley Bros did all PE's beats!!!!!!

  • this was the fuckin 0G

    it occured to me

    the suckers had authority

  • super vintage hip hop!

  • i was watchin friday night lights and they had alot of PE in that movie.. i think thas y i like it so much. esp. this song. and that isaac hayes sample is nuts...

  • diz is why i luv old school rap btter den da rap in our generation because they don't talk bout shit besides money, cars, clothes and fuckin bitches,but with old rap dey talked bout our problems and how we need to love one another. GOTTA LUV OLD SCHOOL RAP. YEA BUDDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • "And we are gonna keep on doing this..You cant stop the bum rush....Fuck Obama,Fuck the NWO.....!!!!

  • @conspr33 if you brought up that daydream NWO shit in front of Chuck he'd tell you to stop daydreaming and START dealing with the real New World Order which has existed since the start of the 20th century. The free market agenda IS the new world order, all belief in secret orders is as insubstantial as belief in religion - and pretty much based on the same instinctual suspicions. The real conspiracies are out in the open if YOU put the time in towards reading up on them.Millions dead - no secret

  • @handofsutekh FOOL DO U KNOW CHUCK D? DAYDREAM MY ASS,I SUGGEST U DO RESEARCH FIRST...

  • @conspr33 I'm saying it's already here... a lot of you talk as if NWO is some coming apocalypse, but it's existed since ww2 - liquidation of Euro & Japanes empires was the US motivation for joining ww2, and then they spent half century waiting for the other superpower to implode before going for the oil

  • @conspr33

    Why do you say Fuck the Northwestern Ontario !? Northwestern Ontario says fuck you back!

  • this is fucking raw

  • @fat8622...A rockist...did you make that word up?

  • I'm a rockist, but Public Enemy is FUCKING AMAZING

  • @fat8622 i think the word yer looking for is neophyte

  • 80s and early 90s rap destroys modern rap/pop....this is so original

  • @Ben0itZ I come from a metal background and it's exactly the same in that genre. And even though I'm a metal fan, I luuuuuuuv my PE!!

  • @03041976001 me too im all metal dude, but yeah i dont mind some beastie boys or PE or DMC

  • @Ben0itZ yeh for merica check u.k

  • @Ben0itZ today's rap is either dance music or a bunch of punks braggin' about what they have. Politically speaking, PE is still at the top of their game.

  • @walterpilgrim absolutely, and they'll NEVER be topped

  • @Ben0itZ i call modern rap crap old school ftw ! creativity !

  • @skamaster21 agreed!

  • I know this is the original, but theres sometin about Tricky's version that I jus fuckin love!!! Classic fuckin tune nonetheless!!!

  • "...the reasons are several, most of them FEDERAL..." Chuck D was one of the REALEST MC's EVER!!!! The "hard rhymer" was very underrated as an MC, but his impact on hip-hop (and society in general) will be felt FOREVER...PE, baby!!!! This is one of the deepest, and BEST hip-hop songs ever made...

  • What happened to the Kings who cared! And taught the masses how to think instead of how to dance?

  • Simply the hardest...rawest....depiction of black anger ever put to wax..Happy King Day!

  • People who are into P.E. wouldn't ever EVER! mention Kanye West....that's an age thing children.....

  • I'm listening to this song cause I hate my job and P.E. gives me strength.

  • no armed force would tolerate having scum like this in its ranks . "public enemy " , got that right ! offence to my ears !

  • @dave2806 Uh-huh. All those moral paragons in the US army. William Calley. Steven Green. John Hatley. Michael Leahy. The list is endless.

  • jesus im a teen but this album is the shit, and kanye's made some great albums, still he's no chuck d as far as being a lyricist and a storyteller, his strength is mainly producing.

  • @CoCoAwsomo151

    kayne sucks dick

  • I dig this shit , it brought a lot of light to civil lberties not being acknowledged for alot of people , as well it brought homeless ness to the front

  • Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymi­stic-Isaac Hayes  Sampled By Public Enemy

  • rot in hell you lazy racist pigs , this brother says fuck you !

  • Any one who has been there knows that this is the real. shout out to Monster Kody and Geronimo and Mutulu and Assata and JD and Mumia and all the Marines doin time for being what they trained us to be. It aint easy walkin point.

  • "I Gotta Letter From The Goverment The Other Day, I Opened it & Read it .. It Said We We Were Suckas"

  • the Game sampled this in his song The Remedy

  • death rooow, what a brotha know?

  • the cell is hell !!!! im a rebel so i rebel

  • @indio3741 death row, what a brotha know

  • Whoever disliked this knows not.

  • i dont know what is better, this or Black Steel by Tricky with Martina

  • now they now they now they got me in a cell

  • @seldane77 what kanye sucks kanye will never have anything on 2pac or chuckd ever

  • @russskates26 you got that right SUCKA!!!!!

  • it occured to me that the suckers had authority- maddest tune i ever heard

  • The best group of rap on the world !!! Check this sound !!!

  • Fuck all.. this is rap this hip hop this is the shit, why cause this man actualy gives a damn

  • The baddest PE track there ever was... thanks for posting.

  • To my rescue it was an S1W

  • this is the shit. n@$%as done sold they soul with this new shit.

  • jingle bells motha fucka!

  • Sick Flow!!

  • one of the dopest song ever

  • THE SUCKERS HAD AUTHORITY......still true today.

    Death to the ILLUMANITI

  • I'm not really into Public Enemy at all but this beat is insane.

  • "I got my steel in my right hand, and Im lookin for the fence"

  • This will ALWAYS be dope, and not just cause it was first, but because it aint nothing but....

  • "im lookin for dat fence".....

  • 0:13 ..Funny Chuck I got that same Letter!

  • Man PE was the shit i grew up on this shit since the 80's.. but then they got all black power and shit something i cant relate to and they got all spike lee stupid... so ehh.. but the old shit like this still kicks ass.

  • iKE hAYEEAS @ 2:37AM....WHATT!!!

  • this is what you call real music

  • I am a piano extrodinaire! Thank You PE & most of all Thank You Isaac Hayes!!!!!

  • Probably my favorite PE song of them all.

    Somebody HAS to tell me what Chuck says in the CHORUS though.

    Start at 5:06. What does Chuck say?

    It's CLEARER at 5:21 though. "Yeah they got me in a..." what's the last word?

  • @TrueTalkTV  'CELL'

  • @TrueTalkTV The word is CELL - the story is about a prison riot/escape...

    This is one of their better songs EVER...so underrated now in 2010...

    I still say that album (It takes a nation of millions...) was THE BEST in rap/hiphop

  • @Mschattrj Yeah. I knew the story. I just couldn't tell that he said "cell."

    This is ABSOLUTELY one of their better songs tho. I completely agree with you.

  • I love Public Enemy's beats. They make them to agress people. Chuck D is the prophet of rap! They are the greatest hip hop group.

    1. Public Enemy

    2. N.W.A.

    3. Wu-Tang Clan

  • @whatthefuck66666 RUN DMC has to be right under if not right next to PE

  • Im a rebel so I rebel