@maxam00 only a hair? Come on...seriously? I used to love Beasties and PE and many others....but listening to Lincensed to Ill now really takes a lot of patience, you need to be in the mood. Not with PE, they put you in a mood. Licensed to Ill was a landmark album, but it don't stand up....it's tedious listening to those whiny voices 20 years later.
@harryfromwork ya u kinda right about that...License ti Ill is not the album i like to rock its just not the same after all these years aside from Posse in Effect its hard to listen to now
@Datathief100 Wu Tang - 36 Chambers, Biggie - Ready to Die, Nas - Illmatic, Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane, KRS One - tough to choose but there's a couple. This is a fucking great album but there are others that are as good for me.
'and in his boardings he made the sneaker from this now sound, too be toward this being his own Nat-dis-Ace of Bate, for his own sisters birthed holy fetes,
"Have you forgotten, that once we were brought here we were robbed of our NAMES, robbed of our LANGUAGE...we lost our RELIGON, our CULTURE, our GOD...and many of us by the we act...WE EVEN LOST OUR MINDS!!!"
More than poets of the many , Chuck D is a serious dude and he speaks to serious people . It's not just the beats , these are the lyrics that make you want more or at least want more for people and you can get it . Love um
this beat sounds like the apocalypse and nobody raps like this anymore. nothing today approaches a 1/4 of the controversy and scorn that Public Enemy engendered in their time.
I really like Public Enemy, and other early Hip Hop group. But there really is no need for this kind of music anymore. But, I believe that is only because of the these guys and the others like them. They made a movement that was successful. Now the movement isn't that necessary anymore, although I do know you should never get complacent. I will admit that some rap now is terrible but not all of it.
I'm a white, 45 y.o. hard-rock fan and metalhead, and I've always loved Public Enemy and most of the hip-hop and rap groups from the 80's. I pretty much tuned out right around 91 or so, because the whole attitude shifted to pretty much all-out non-stop stupid hateful un-empowering depictions of crime, drug abuse, misogyny, murder, and who can make the "blingiest" fim-footage clip to accompany the song. And it's only gotten worse up to this day. AutoTuner is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
@WestcoastJB Fair point, I'd forgotten about some albums like that, and i was generalizing to make a point, but I'll always live by my 80's rap. It's a good topic to debate though my friend.
He Declared War On Black Radio In 1988, I Did It In 2003 Fuck Black Radio Blacks Do Not Control The Rotations . We Are The Ones That Set Trends In Culture Not Followers Of No Cultures . Black Radio Has Sold Their Soles For Nothing! P.S. Turn Off The Fucking Radio.
lol white ppl complain about rap music today is so negative but went all out trying to ban real shit like this back in the day. be honest yall dont wanna see x-clan,public enemy,big daddy kane,Eric B & Rakim and the africa medallions and the rest of the gods return.
lol white ppl complain about rap music today is so negative but went all out trying to ban real shit like this back in the day. be honest yall dont wanna see x-clan,public enemy,big daddy kane and the africa medallions and the rest of the gods return.
@BigWorm242 ur right. i remember planning my days around Yo! Mtv Raps and the Grammys just to see Run DMC.LL, Whodini,Salt N Pepa. just to see them nominated gave me a rush,now i dont even bother watching award shows becuz the majority of these cats are garbage.
@thesmithfamily99 Never mind, I saw every one of your videos and you are nothing but an apologist for Fux News and one of these angry white guys who feel threatened by everything that isn't straight, white, and male. If you had your way there would still be slavery. I'll waste no more comments on a good old-fashioned racist such as yourself.
@thesmithfamily....If I told you that the Jews should "quit whining" about the Holocaust, you'd be ready to go to war. Yes, all other races have gone through slavery, but no other race was divided and conquered and had their connection with their land and culture so severed like American descendants of African slaves. Like it or not, those effects still reverberate to this day. You talk as if Jews do no wrong
the guy talking before the song kicks in is Khalid Abdul Muhammad a very racist anti-white anti-jew & anti-gay scumbag. i guess p.e. supports racist just like ice cube Khalid Abdul Muhammad has been on a couple of his tracks too
@dolmanf yes he does. but all goes out the window when talks about killing whites and jews . many people of diff races have gone through hard times slavery, injustices. no reason to so so full of hate. should the jews hate every germany today?
Why don't they make hip hop anymore that makes you think,and is socially aware, anymore?Now its all about money,bitchs,clothes,and the club.Stupid played out shit.
A colleague of mine is also a total Metal Head, I convinced him to listen to "It takes a Nation of Millions..." and "Fear of a..." and he loves it too. Amazing albums both.
THANKS GOD THERE'S A YOUNG CAT OUT HERE THAT CAN UNDERSTAND AND SEE REAL MUSIC FOR WHAT IT IS! KEEP DIGGIN IN THE CRATES KID, YOU'LL FIND A TON OF SHIT THAT WON'T EVER GET PLAYED IN TODAY'S WORLD. and lil wayne....lmfao at him, he's worthless. he needs a dentist and plastic surgery!
I just had tears in my eyes. I was 16 years when this song dropped, and Public Enemy help to inspire me to want to change myself, my community and the world. And hearing those opening word by brother Minister Khalid Muhammad (May God have mercy on him), still brings chills to my spine. Nothing that Jay-Z, Kanye, or Lil Wayne has dropped can compare to this one song by PE.
@fahgod , joints like this stick to you. I just finished listening to "Crooklyn Dodgers" which brought back so many memories as well. Black and brown people went through hell in the 80's and 90's when crack hit the streets. I'm glad your here to talk about it today my friend. Oneness!
Damn, they don't make 'em like this anymore. I remember I would watch the video for this on my local vid channel way back in the day and just be mesmerized.
Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god...and many of us, by the way we act, we even lost our minds.
i bought this album back in 87' just to have something to listen to on the way to work on my tape player. never heard of PE befor that day. when i put it in the player and that first song jumped off. i became a basehead for PE. i rocked that album for months.
"...have you forgotten that once we were bought here, we were robbed of our names, robbed of our language, we lost our religion, our culture and our GOD... and many of us by the way we act, we've even lost our mind!"
one of my fav samples is at 2:44 when the use that LIVE cut from Rufus Thomas at the "Wattstax" concert in L.A. in 1972. when he says after the FUNKY CHICKEN .....wait a minute.....WAIT AAAAYYY MINNNNUTE. love it! plus the white leather boots and hot pink shorts set from Rufus was living large!
a lot of people miss the point of the song. it's an anti-drug message. crack was a major epidemic in the 80's (it still is, but in those days, I'm talking major devastation). this song was a powerful anti-drug message, which is ironic since Flavor Flav suffered with substance abuse for a large amount of his career. Still, strong message, and it's my favorite P.E. song to this day.
Not only the greatest rap album, but one of the greatest albums period. Nothing sounded like it before - or since, really. Truly revolutionary and brilliant. And that's from a Jewish guy remembering his high school days when rap was a truly pastiche art form.
i agree with you but i have to ask you mr. jewish man. what do you think of the intro to this song, i.e. the recording that lasts for fourteen seconds from the beginning?
It sounds like a fair analysis of American slavery and the losses blacks suffered because of it. He also becomes a self critic of sorts towards his own community with the "lost our minds by the way we act." line. If you are asking because the speaker is a NOI member or someone like that, it's irrelevant since in the context of this song, I agree with what he said. Is that why you asked? It's a good question.
listen man that guy is a fucking faggot. go look him up. khlid abdul mohammed. i agree with him in this context too. he is right (here). yes he is NOI (chuck d is affiliated too, or at least was, and terminator x (the dj) has said bad stuff about jews, but i think chuck d made him say he took it back), and i personally hate all the NOI leaders. they preach hate about anyone unlike them. the way i see it they are a positive force for blacks but no one else. farrakhan is a motherfucker. real talk.
i remember seeing this vid for the first time on BET!! it was an epiphanic moment..... like the first time that i heard the beatles or saw jimi hendrix play!! it was a whole new ball game. chuck is one of the few true poet lyricists in the game. if you take most of the rappers lyrics out of the context of the music they are meaningless. chucks lyrics have rhythm, rhyme and intelligence.
Great lyrics: "I'm talking about...BASS". No, he's talking about BASE as in freebase. Nt though...
jmmwins 2 months ago 3
This is and still is my fav from this classic and timeless album!!! P.E. DONT STOP!
MrNewtowner13 2 months ago
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I love this song
jjwdog97 2 months ago
Shame on a brother when he's dealin'
the same block where my 98 be wheelin...
Truly amazing album... Brings back memories!!
Datathief100 2 months ago 2
Chuck D [1986] ; the most distinctive vocals in the HipHop industry
DetroitIsland 3 months ago 2
Greatest Rap Album of all time. A hair better than Licensed to ill by the Beasties.
maxam00 3 months ago
@maxam00 only a hair? Come on...seriously? I used to love Beasties and PE and many others....but listening to Lincensed to Ill now really takes a lot of patience, you need to be in the mood. Not with PE, they put you in a mood. Licensed to Ill was a landmark album, but it don't stand up....it's tedious listening to those whiny voices 20 years later.
harryfromwork 1 month ago
@harryfromwork ya u kinda right about that...License ti Ill is not the album i like to rock its just not the same after all these years aside from Posse in Effect its hard to listen to now
otakunik1 1 month ago
@harryfromwork dont matter..... rather listen to some Eric B/Rakim anyway.......now thats some shit that never gets old..... THE R......
seehound619 1 month ago
P. E!!!!!
rhymezgalore 4 months ago
check out the FIGURE remix!
sk8nboomer900 4 months ago
Im talking bout B.A.S.E.
GEEFLEXZ 4 months ago in playlist PUBLIC ENEMY
Tyrone Olsen- Evol Skateboards video part!!!
fubar250 4 months ago
Still freakin Awesome! /nuff said!
*What MrBlegit1 said...*
JoolsyB 5 months ago
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JoolsyB 5 months ago
i never liked hip rop, only rock n roll and a bit of electronic. But i think this guys really rock!!!
crashbreakerr 5 months ago 2
you mean bass head
thanamesTACTLE 5 months ago
One of the best Hip Hop Albums of all time!!!
MrBlegit1 5 months ago 2
4 people went to see the dopeman!
305whistleblower 5 months ago
Tell `em Khalid - The opening speech i'm referring to
305whistleblower 5 months ago
Eric Koston!!!!
Jerbearrrrrrr 5 months ago 44
@Jerbearrrrrrr lmfao
819driver 3 months ago
I listen to hardcore and other heavy music but Public Enemy will always have a place on my ipod.
:)
SilosVideoSucks 6 months ago
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yuks ! ugly music
sam4malaysia 6 months ago
,and all he do'n is Mack-Slips on his sleep, to this as is being Bass, off Monday night's to it's own Bass, off an, on face too it's Bass...
MsTROYHARRIS 6 months ago
its iraq up in here
shazzaman1 6 months ago 2
eric koston fully flared
IMACOOLBOY12 6 months ago
4 persons are baseheads
johelandakeem 6 months ago 2
@johelandakeem 'and "Total" non-Mettalics'!!!!
MsTROYHARRIS 6 months ago
No school like the old school...KICK IT CHUCK!!!
Datathief100 6 months ago
THOM YORKE :-)
kcmm1971 7 months ago 5
DJ'ed by Thom Yorke (Radiohead) - For More, check out livebymusic com
lucasballek 7 months ago
this is one of the greatest songs in the history of hip hop
TP33IME 7 months ago
@TP33IME
Shame on the brother who be dealin'.... the same block where my '98 be wheelin'..... best line ever.
KingCast65 7 months ago
Best rap album of all time, hands down, there's just nothing that can touch it.
Datathief100 7 months ago 2
@Datathief100 Wu Tang - 36 Chambers, Biggie - Ready to Die, Nas - Illmatic, Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane, KRS One - tough to choose but there's a couple. This is a fucking great album but there are others that are as good for me.
jimmyhayers 7 months ago
'yes'
MsTROYHARRIS 7 months ago
LOST OUR RELIGION
AFRICANS4AFRICA 7 months ago
'and in his boardings he made the sneaker from this now sound, too be toward this being his own Nat-dis-Ace of Bate, for his own sisters birthed holy fetes,
that's what he wakes-up for with,
sun still be on one hype'...
MsTROYHARRIS 7 months ago
still gives me shivers
Eightball69 7 months ago
@Eightball69 hell yes.
GazzaRover 5 months ago
"Have you forgotten, that once we were brought here we were robbed of our NAMES, robbed of our LANGUAGE...we lost our RELIGON, our CULTURE, our GOD...and many of us by the we act...WE EVEN LOST OUR MINDS!!!"
blakbrain 8 months ago
this samples, the grunt from the jb's, like rebel without apause
SlimGangstaGangsta 8 months ago
best hip hop act EVER
WalterSobchak1000 8 months ago 2
More than poets of the many , Chuck D is a serious dude and he speaks to serious people . It's not just the beats , these are the lyrics that make you want more or at least want more for people and you can get it . Love um
Pornality 8 months ago
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one of the first anti=drug joints ....
its amazing when cats get airplay now and floss about how many birds they sell a day...
PE was just ahead of their time. There's no mistake why the radio wouldnt play it, and the industry buried them.
7Beyonder 9 months ago
one of the first anti=drug dealer joints ....
its amazing when cats get airplay now and floss about how many birds they sell a day...
PE was just ahead of their time. There's no mistake why the radio wouldnt play it, and the industry buried them.
7Beyonder 9 months ago
this beat sounds like the apocalypse and nobody raps like this anymore. nothing today approaches a 1/4 of the controversy and scorn that Public Enemy engendered in their time.
sevendragon 9 months ago
one of the best raps of all time.
quest33613 9 months ago
tup teeee tup teee tup teeee tup teee great song
sewdenRST 9 months ago
@sewdenRST is 'tup teee' supposed to be that horn sample?
yeahdefdj 9 months ago
@yeahdefdj yeah!! it's good shit
sewdenRST 9 months ago
im in here rockin too this shit....got the computer hooked 2 the bump(system...basss!)48 inc hes of Youtube...and Faceebook
charmcity401 9 months ago
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SlimGangstaGangsta 9 months ago
and u say damn this is a Dope Jam!
Alex39569 9 months ago
I really like Public Enemy, and other early Hip Hop group. But there really is no need for this kind of music anymore. But, I believe that is only because of the these guys and the others like them. They made a movement that was successful. Now the movement isn't that necessary anymore, although I do know you should never get complacent. I will admit that some rap now is terrible but not all of it.
wicketts16 10 months ago
@wicketts16
We need music like this more than ever before. The things problems PE rapped abouth 20+ years ago are STILL plauging us, along with new struggles.
BigWorm242 9 months ago
this was always the real street rap ...peace from newcastle england !!
bankporters 10 months ago
I'm a white, 45 y.o. hard-rock fan and metalhead, and I've always loved Public Enemy and most of the hip-hop and rap groups from the 80's. I pretty much tuned out right around 91 or so, because the whole attitude shifted to pretty much all-out non-stop stupid hateful un-empowering depictions of crime, drug abuse, misogyny, murder, and who can make the "blingiest" fim-footage clip to accompany the song. And it's only gotten worse up to this day. AutoTuner is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
toobtyed 10 months ago 3
@toobtyed agree with you BUT, there was some friggin good hiphop made in the 90's. Check Ice Cube's albums like The Predator or Lethal Injection.
WestcoastJB 10 months ago
@WestcoastJB Fair point, I'd forgotten about some albums like that, and i was generalizing to make a point, but I'll always live by my 80's rap. It's a good topic to debate though my friend.
toobtyed 10 months ago
@WestcoastJB check amerikkka most wanted and death certificate and kill at will
SlimGangstaGangsta 9 months ago
BASE!!!! Classic hip hop
IkThaKid 10 months ago
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He Declared War On Black Radio In 1988, I Did It In 2003 Fuck Black Radio Blacks Do Not Control The Rotations . We Are The Ones That Set Trends In Culture Not Followers Of No Cultures . Black Radio Has Sold Their Soles For Nothing! P.S. Turn Off The Fucking Radio.
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lol white ppl complain about rap music today is so negative but went all out trying to ban real shit like this back in the day. be honest yall dont wanna see x-clan,public enemy,big daddy kane,Eric B & Rakim and the africa medallions and the rest of the gods return.
station4hiphop 10 months ago
lol white ppl complain about rap music today is so negative but went all out trying to ban real shit like this back in the day. be honest yall dont wanna see x-clan,public enemy,big daddy kane and the africa medallions and the rest of the gods return.
station4hiphop 10 months ago
@station4hiphop
Damn straight. The things people here are saying about how todays rap is all violent criminal garbage were said almost verbatim decades ago.
BigWorm242 9 months ago
@BigWorm242 ur right. i remember planning my days around Yo! Mtv Raps and the Grammys just to see Run DMC.LL, Whodini,Salt N Pepa. just to see them nominated gave me a rush,now i dont even bother watching award shows becuz the majority of these cats are garbage.
station4hiphop 9 months ago
Here it is, BAM
FlyingBySea 11 months ago
Im pretty sure I have the best taste in music ever. Hahahah
Creaturefiend565 11 months ago
@thesmithfamily99 Never mind, I saw every one of your videos and you are nothing but an apologist for Fux News and one of these angry white guys who feel threatened by everything that isn't straight, white, and male. If you had your way there would still be slavery. I'll waste no more comments on a good old-fashioned racist such as yourself.
AugustTwin 11 months ago
@thesmithfamily....If I told you that the Jews should "quit whining" about the Holocaust, you'd be ready to go to war. Yes, all other races have gone through slavery, but no other race was divided and conquered and had their connection with their land and culture so severed like American descendants of African slaves. Like it or not, those effects still reverberate to this day. You talk as if Jews do no wrong
AugustTwin 11 months ago
2 people are base heads
romeodelta1178 11 months ago
pe...what more is it for me to say.
rarafrom215 11 months ago
propably the only rap i "like". outside of something like ratm.
Chamenful 11 months ago
propably the only rap band i "like".
Chamenful 11 months ago
the guy talking before the song kicks in is Khalid Abdul Muhammad a very racist anti-white anti-jew & anti-gay scumbag. i guess p.e. supports racist just like ice cube Khalid Abdul Muhammad has been on a couple of his tracks too
thesmithfamily99 1 year ago
@thesmithfamily99 he makes a very valid point though
dolmanf 1 year ago
@dolmanf yes he does. but all goes out the window when talks about killing whites and jews . many people of diff races have gone through hard times slavery, injustices. no reason to so so full of hate. should the jews hate every germany today?
thesmithfamily99 1 year ago
@thesmithfamily99 this music wasnt made with whites in mind. its to educate and inform blacks.
station4hiphop 10 months ago
"Here it is, BAM, in yo face, GOT DAM, this is a dope jam..." SO CHUCK, SO HARD!!
daboss88100 1 year ago
Why don't they make hip hop anymore that makes you think,and is socially aware, anymore?Now its all about money,bitchs,clothes,and the club.Stupid played out shit.
21diy 1 year ago
hey im a straight up metal head but it dont mean i shut out other forms of good music im really loving public enemy
lolcop96 1 year ago 34
@lolcop96
A colleague of mine is also a total Metal Head, I convinced him to listen to "It takes a Nation of Millions..." and "Fear of a..." and he loves it too. Amazing albums both.
JoolsyB 5 months ago
sampling the jbs great beat
MrScully90 1 year ago
Shame on a brother when they dealing.
enviops 1 year ago
daaaaamn terminator x kills this
mistermojo420 1 year ago
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Blucius13 1 year ago
I was in the 7th grade when this came out
cianamja 1 year ago 2
thumbs up if Koston brought you here
areyouover9000 1 year ago
this is just an example of all the worlds problems , waste of space the lot of them
dave2806 1 year ago
Ahem...not to nickpick, but I think it's base, as in Basehead. In other words, a crack addict.
TheJesterHaHa 1 year ago
Yo Herb
ashley66666 1 year ago
Ha! I heard some David Bowie in there :D the very beginning of "Fame." These guys have good taste.
jmatts78 1 year ago
Money and platinum are hollow. Read a book. We are willing.
beowulven 1 year ago
Love the Bowie sample in this!
kingrob29 1 year ago
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Im 14 and im like the only person in my school listening to rap not Lil Wayne YM shit.. Fuck todays wannabe rap
CoolGuy95ya 1 year ago 54
@CoolGuy95ya thats whats up keep the oldschool alive
CoonDaddy420 1 year ago
@CoolGuy95ya ik ectacally wat u mean man
planbsk8er4life12 1 year ago
@CoolGuy95ya
THANKS GOD THERE'S A YOUNG CAT OUT HERE THAT CAN UNDERSTAND AND SEE REAL MUSIC FOR WHAT IT IS! KEEP DIGGIN IN THE CRATES KID, YOU'LL FIND A TON OF SHIT THAT WON'T EVER GET PLAYED IN TODAY'S WORLD. and lil wayne....lmfao at him, he's worthless. he needs a dentist and plastic surgery!
missjenn35 1 year ago
@missjenn35
Spoken like a lion...
beowulven 1 year ago
@CoolGuy95ya hell yea
TRUEGUITARHERO2171 1 year ago
@CoolGuy95ya Same here! I'm 14 and love this shit!
asgertts 1 year ago
@CoolGuy95ya
what they listen to is rap, you're listening to HIP-HOP ;)
djvictroladadj 1 year ago
@CoolGuy95ya i like to see this coments on classic,underground,old school hip hop :) CLASSIC-UNDERGROUND-OLDSCHOOL (l)
Ramaker1923 11 months ago
best rap album ever
horrido666 1 year ago
2 people believed the hype
philipdoom 1 year ago
One of the classics that changed my life. Amazing track
undakova 1 year ago
Crooklyn Dodgers
20MOJO20 1 year ago
"how long can you go" already?
paingiver28 1 year ago
I just had tears in my eyes. I was 16 years when this song dropped, and Public Enemy help to inspire me to want to change myself, my community and the world. And hearing those opening word by brother Minister Khalid Muhammad (May God have mercy on him), still brings chills to my spine. Nothing that Jay-Z, Kanye, or Lil Wayne has dropped can compare to this one song by PE.
fahgod 1 year ago
@fahgod salute
telemanque 1 year ago
@fahgod , joints like this stick to you. I just finished listening to "Crooklyn Dodgers" which brought back so many memories as well. Black and brown people went through hell in the 80's and 90's when crack hit the streets. I'm glad your here to talk about it today my friend. Oneness!
nubonyx 1 year ago
wow.
sesmiley 1 year ago
PE rules! I want to find the video to this!
djnonstp 1 year ago
Damn, they don't make 'em like this anymore. I remember I would watch the video for this on my local vid channel way back in the day and just be mesmerized.
FrenziedMadness25 1 year ago
Khalid Abdul Muhammad made that speech in the beginning of the song..That was my thing back in the days.
maxijoe21 1 year ago
i love the samples.
MelvinWren 1 year ago
I'm white, I'm 13, and I completely SHATTER every stereotype people had about people that listen to Public Emeny. These dudes are fuckin ILL.
ThePoliticalSkater 1 year ago
My favourite PE song.
Counse 1 year ago
Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god...and many of us, by the way we act, we even lost our minds.
carpovilla01 1 year ago
PE is the greatest hip hop group that ever existed !!!
DoktorSick 1 year ago
this new stuff is not hip hop its crap pe rules going to see them in orlando on sept 16th cant wait
1970johnboy 1 year ago
thumbs up if Eric Koston brought u here
scaredsoldier 1 year ago
Succotash is a mere for kids to make cash sellin' drugs to the brutha man instead of the other man... I'm talkin' 'bout bass!
speedwack 1 year ago
PE !!!!!!!!
ricosouave57 1 year ago
im talkin bout BASE!!!!
herokid1995 1 year ago
can anyone upload that original video of this song ... it was one of the best of all time & i would love to see it after all those years!
HerberthMueller 1 year ago
THIS is a the best Hip-Hop Song ever. Not only the Messeage, the Song is a Firework!
TheScoore 1 year ago
Real HIP Hop
tmac8505 1 year ago
koston :D
dharius11 1 year ago 65
@dharius11 what a part!
pricyboy 1 year ago
koston :D
dharius11 1 year ago
koston :D
dharius11 1 year ago
this album changed me forever. opened my eyes to the world for how it really is not how I was being taught it was.
bcollins774 1 year ago
@teers80 yeaa hip hop does suck ass
KidKonkrete130 1 year ago
@KidKonkrete130
richard1g3b 1 year ago
shot out 2 everybody back in the early 80z when dis and eric b and rakim came out! biz markie, mc shan!big up 2 my newyork brothers kc and russell!
tonytee12 1 year ago
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Fuck You Dont Follow me!!!
stevens15007 1 year ago
Well, God damn, this IS a dope jam.
Mutough 1 year ago
KOSTON
Lhortti 1 year ago 5
@Lhortti ERICK
jayveon23 1 year ago
sorry. i got the album in 88. didn't have a job in 87' and the album didn't come out til 88'.
itsmister2u 1 year ago
i bought this album back in 87' just to have something to listen to on the way to work on my tape player. never heard of PE befor that day. when i put it in the player and that first song jumped off. i became a basehead for PE. i rocked that album for months.
itsmister2u 1 year ago
@goldsut on some songs they do, like black steel in the hour of chaos
KillswitchJohn 1 year ago
Here it Is!!!
TheWolfbros 1 year ago
base!
ridderwolf 1 year ago
"...have you forgotten that once we were bought here, we were robbed of our names, robbed of our language, we lost our religion, our culture and our GOD... and many of us by the way we act, we've even lost our mind!"
quahim 1 year ago
chuck d sound like the martin luther king jr of hip hop get yo ears ready
mlawrence007 1 year ago
it here it is BAMMM IN YOUR FACE GOD DAM NOT and u say goddam
pballingsk8aposing 1 year ago
@pballingsk8aposing no its not
ForbiddenWarrior1 1 year ago
Like comatose walking around please don't confuse this with the sound.
davidbowe 1 year ago
one of my fav samples is at 2:44 when the use that LIVE cut from Rufus Thomas at the "Wattstax" concert in L.A. in 1972. when he says after the FUNKY CHICKEN .....wait a minute.....WAIT AAAAYYY MINNNNUTE. love it! plus the white leather boots and hot pink shorts set from Rufus was living large!
colton422 1 year ago
where can i find the rest of the speech that makes up the first 14 seconds of the intro to this classic example of what rap should be about?
sirdaddytopper 1 year ago
"Selling drugs to the brutha man instead of the other man"
denzelsnipes69 1 year ago
the biginning is raw a hell form 0:16-0:51
GregoryHalo3 1 year ago 3
"and many of us by the way we act, we even lost our minds:" AMEN to that
frdz1975 1 year ago
its just awsome!
DarkRockerGoth149 1 year ago
Why did it post that three times? I normally only need to say things once.
God damn...
noexittoexist 1 year ago
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Like? I do like this track..
noexittoexist 1 year ago
KICKS IN FROM 1:04 .... BRILLIANT
flanj1 1 year ago
legit.
MALLYUNK 1 year ago
eveer hear of a crack diet? same goes for meth put it the food and ill throw that shit up...skull faces nerves shot to hell in the hands.
brownholepink 1 year ago
a lot of people miss the point of the song. it's an anti-drug message. crack was a major epidemic in the 80's (it still is, but in those days, I'm talking major devastation). this song was a powerful anti-drug message, which is ironic since Flavor Flav suffered with substance abuse for a large amount of his career. Still, strong message, and it's my favorite P.E. song to this day.
Diggy22 1 year ago 6
lol isnt it ironic they made a song with a band called Anthrax
Kaligo12 1 year ago
I see it on their faces.....{1st come, 1st serve basis) TOTAL CLASSIC!!!!
Bought this on tape back in 1989. Still rocks hard as ever.
partysince96 1 year ago 4
man these guyz are raw and im 12 and i think they are way better than lil-wayne and dem
sk8mob4life2 1 year ago 2
im talking bout
B A S S !
michelVOLLGAS 1 year ago
This song is the TRUTH!
BlackPowerFist3000 1 year ago
Not only the greatest rap album, but one of the greatest albums period. Nothing sounded like it before - or since, really. Truly revolutionary and brilliant. And that's from a Jewish guy remembering his high school days when rap was a truly pastiche art form.
ljfkjgfkjgv 1 year ago 5
i agree with you but i have to ask you mr. jewish man. what do you think of the intro to this song, i.e. the recording that lasts for fourteen seconds from the beginning?
wonderataoldotcom 1 year ago
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ljfkjgfkjgv 1 year ago
It sounds like a fair analysis of American slavery and the losses blacks suffered because of it. He also becomes a self critic of sorts towards his own community with the "lost our minds by the way we act." line. If you are asking because the speaker is a NOI member or someone like that, it's irrelevant since in the context of this song, I agree with what he said. Is that why you asked? It's a good question.
ljfkjgfkjgv 1 year ago
listen man that guy is a fucking faggot. go look him up. khlid abdul mohammed. i agree with him in this context too. he is right (here). yes he is NOI (chuck d is affiliated too, or at least was, and terminator x (the dj) has said bad stuff about jews, but i think chuck d made him say he took it back), and i personally hate all the NOI leaders. they preach hate about anyone unlike them. the way i see it they are a positive force for blacks but no one else. farrakhan is a motherfucker. real talk.
wonderataoldotcom 1 year ago 2
Public Enemy=the greatest hip hop group of all time.
ElectricBlueOil 2 years ago 4
i remember seeing this vid for the first time on BET!! it was an epiphanic moment..... like the first time that i heard the beatles or saw jimi hendrix play!! it was a whole new ball game. chuck is one of the few true poet lyricists in the game. if you take most of the rappers lyrics out of the context of the music they are meaningless. chucks lyrics have rhythm, rhyme and intelligence.
mj99a 2 years ago 5
It Take A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back..... is one of the greatest... if not THE greatest Hip Hop album ever made.
It completely changed the game in 88. I remember... amazing, brave album.
ThaNotoriousBEN 2 years ago 20
@ThaNotoriousBEN it changed my life!
bcollins774 1 year ago
@ThaNotoriousBEN
AMEN to that...its one of the best albums. PE is my number #1 in my top 5 and this album is truly bangin! don't ya miss this shit?
missjenn35 1 year ago