This song is a PERFECT example of how a song can be so enjoyable (with beats, etc) to listen to, but at the same time delivers a strong/meaningful/powerful message.
No excuses Lil' Wayne, Drake, and _______________ (insert rapper names here)
Here come the drums! I bought this on cassette...yes, cassette...back when it first came out and jammed this over and over! Even at 13 years old, this song's message was not lost on me. I may not be black, but I'm a minority and I know what it's like to be held back and told that I'm never gonna be a damn thing. Public Enemy changed the way I looked at things. They showed me I shouldn't just sit back and let myself to be treated like crap. I needed to speak up and fight back! Fight the POWER!
Here come the drums! I bought this on cassette...yes, cassette...back when it first came out and jammed this over and over! Even at 13 years old, this song's message was not lost on me. I may not be black, but I'm a minority and I know what it's like to be held back and told that I'm never gonna be a damn thing. Public Enemy changed the way I looked at things. They showed me I shouldn't just sit back and let myself to be treated like crap. I needed to speak up and fight back! Fight the POWER!
....IF THAY WERE RAPPIN BOUT BITCHES & HOs THAY WOULD PLAY IT ON MAINSTREAM RADIO......PE IS THE ALARM CLOCK OF AMERIKKKA WAKE UP!! & FIGHT WALL STREET
as a child of the 80's PE schooled me when "real" school didn't, without PE I wouldn't be who I am today. 99% of rappers now are sellouts and wouldn't have stood a chance back in the day when hip-hop ruled supreme. we need a musical movement like this again....
I feel honored to be alive during that era of hip hop. Not only alive but paying attention. I didn't absentmindedly stumble across this beautiful music 5 years after it's peak, I was right there nodding my hooded head, stomping my Timbos on top of it. Much like I've wished I could have been around to see Hendrix play live, we know we were lucky to be a part of this time. Sadly we watch rap regress to mediocre rhymes and material meaning but being there back then will ALWAYS make up for it.
This racial back and forth wont stop huh. We are all human beings with complex differences. The problem lies were the constitution was drawn up for white americans and was never ammended for todays people or problems.
This world and humans are just jacked up. This is nothing new..Racial prejudice and wars either verbal or physical have been going on since the Garden of Eden over 2,000 years ago. This is the Devil's playground..he loves division. He used this type of method 2,000 years ago and is very successful. Would you stop doing something if you are successful? Of course not.
@Dsledge93 Well its unfortunate that your education didn't teach you that a sentence begins with a capital letter, and every sentence ends with a full stop. I think you should demand a refund.
@bolder2009 because this site isnt worth writing a whole fucking essay on. i dont put commas and all that shit on here because its just a fucking site. most people on here cant read anyway. especially ghetto blacks.
@bolder2009 “Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome;
@kennethketchum continued but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence. Frederick Douglass
You just academically kicked him in the balls. Love you my brother
Chuck D's politicalness and consciousness with Flavor Flav's sarcastic while dope rhymes makes them most influential and one of the best hip-hop groups ever.
I was looking for some hardcore hip hop for inspiration for a track I'm doing for a film, most of the rap these days has so little substance and the delivery is too soft..then I remembered Public Enemy
i was teen when this came out; now my mind is open and I finally get it completely. We need this message music back to wake the people again. This is similarities in chattel slavery and wage slavery. Working a job is still a form of slavery to this day...
As many times as I have seen this video, I saw someone I didn't notice before?
Actor Clifton Powell who played "Pinky" in "Next Friday" and "Friday After Next" and Chris Tucker's cousin "Luke" in the first "Rush Hour" movie, is a factory worker turning a steam valve, @ the 3:52 mark!
A call to Aryans to duty :Force your beleifs laws and government on mother fakers such as: Police CIA FBI democrats republicans zionist hezullah and Give these mother fakers a taste of their own medicine
Rise up u permanent debt slaves and put parasite Semites: islamic fascis and zioinst Jews on trial: Quran(2:191): " Turn them out from where they turned you out and if they chase you and attack you at your sanctuary (homes) then slay them...." Amen Quran(9.5): So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters (devil who stole your rights to free will and free land that god gave u) wherever you find them, and take them captives ....Amen again
@jreed173abn your right....................But atleast SHE GETS IT! I would Fight & Die with you on my left & The white Girl on my right as we 3 with a nation of millions go around & get rid of the BS garbage thats filling the air waves & TV's trying to be seen as if it's REAL HIP HOP/RAP when it's nothing like this at all what so ever! I got ya back white girl Madamewoselle!
@ciflyer I can understand that dude. But the way I see it, rascism stems from seeing others as belonging to a group AND seeing yourself as belonging to a group. Solidarity lies with identifying ones self as a member of HUMANITY with a set of rights given to you by your maker, not by a government or an arbitrary pigmentation. You're both cool, but the destruction of color is the desired endstate. Until people can say that they simply like the music as opposed to attaching qualifiers...
What made public enemy so good is that they delivered a message, but knew the importance of keeping the song so funky and positive that you were forced to listen to it. In nowadays positive songs miss the whole meaning of the making of a song positivity can be spread easily if the rhythm is funky, the lyrics is undeniably true and the message rides the beat like system rides our asses. 2011 Keep it real but keep it real funky remember what people want in music and the message will be transfered.
Public Enemy's Chuck.D gives loads of knowledge in ''H.OW ..TO.. R.AP"
that title is what the book is called which he is in, its amazing, and has every1 givin information - Tribe, Kane, G Rap, Pharoahe Monch, Pharcyde, +looads more...
I do feel that for the most part people can achieve whatever they set their mind to achieve. I am saying that slavery and its residual effects through-out our history has had a major impact on how the black culture has developed in this country and is still impacting it today. I think it is very important that this fact be well understood and not forgotten. Public Enemy does an excellent job of not letting anyone forget!
Neither I, nor my parents, nor my grandparents had the opportunity that yours had. You seem to take it for granted and assume everyone has had your ancestor's same head start in life. And yes they had a head start, whether you choose to realize it or not. I am not saying that life has been a piece of cake for you and that have not had to rise above many obstacles. I am not saying slavery is an excuse for a lack of motivation or an excuse for negative behavior.
This generation is the first to be able to go to a school of their choice, but even now is often excluded because of race. It is just not as overtly done as it once was in the past.
You act as if the playing field is now level because of Obama. Do you think he would have had a chance in hell of winning if the situation that the country found itself in was not so desperate. This is the worst economic situation that 99% of all living Americans have ever seen. And that is why he was voted in. White people said "at this point we don't care, just please fix it". Even so look at what clear racism he has faced since he has been in office.
You see it in videos, movies, and elsewhere. Light skin and long hair is shown as the basis of beauty. It is white people who control and have always controlled these media sources, and therefore dictate what we see now and have always seen. Use of the N-word by black people and black on black crime, stems from a lack of self respect because of an effective negative image campaign that has always existed whether intentional or not.
You should educate yourself about the residual effects of slavery and institutional racism. The instilling of self hatred perpetrated by whites, and perpetuated thought-out history via various media sources like books, magazines, and TV hasn't stopped. The lighter is better notion historically used to divide slaves, still permeates the black community today. You see it in videos, movies, and elsewhere.
jsm7977:Before I looked, I said he must not be black, and I see that I am right. Young man you know absolutely nothing, and I do mean nothing about the subject on which you comment. This makes showing that video that much more crucial.
Life is what people make of it. Period. Slavery has ZERO bearing on accomplishing dreams. Its an excuse. Any lame excuse someone comes up with as to why they cant get ahead in life is just that, an excuse and a piss poor one at that.
@jsm7977 The book is called POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary. Please youtube her and listen to her. She will show you the legacy that slavery still has on the psyche of black people. I dare you to read this powerful book. I dare you. I thought the same way until I saw her work and heard her lecture. Also listen to Dr. John Henrick Clark and Dr. Amos Wilson's BLUEPRINT FOR BLACK POWER on youtube. Just lisTen to all of them on youtube if you are really serious.
The rappers you named are idiots in comparison. Talking bout the struggle, the come up, the triumph, empowering lyrics..Im ALL for that. I will stand firm and say kids today do NOT need to be reminded in pop culture about slavery. Its counter-productive. If they want to learn about that, go to the library or something. Knowing your ancestry is fine but it has no place in mainstream culture. Its irrelevant. Not ONE person alive today in the US has ever met someone enslaved.
@jsm7977@jsm7977 It is called wage slavery. Please see ENDGAME: BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT on youtube. Watch all parts - entire documentary is over 2 hours but the bonus is after the 2nd hour. by Alex Jones. See anything he puts out on youtube. Funny, but when I reference books and documentaries, I never get any response. Is it because no one reads anymore or challenges their beliefs? and Alex Jones is WHITE. We are all enslaved
I appreciate his dope lyrics, sick beats and passion for what he raps about but YO, for real... there was never and still is no reason to show images of blacks in chains man. He jus propagatin' when he do that. Thats real talk.
@jsm7977 It has nothing to do with propagating anything. I think he was just trying to show that shit ain't changed from slavery to now and that you still have some white folks out there that are racist assholes. No matter how hard you try to forget it, it is part of black history. And without slavery, you would have never had some of the people that were heroes in its downfall like Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass to name a couple. "Those who forget their history, are doomed to repeat it."
@magich8ball - I feel you but Im nore inclined to think society in general tends to lean my way in this day and age. YES I will agree that during the early hip-hop movement perhaps there was a need for great lyricists like Chuck D that hit on this. Nowadays not so much. Know what I mean.
@jsm7977 Actually there is more of need for this today. Who do black youth have as a positive role model in hip-hop? Lil Wayne? nope. Drake? nope. All these rappers today talk about is gettin money and getting the freshest ride and the most ice and material shit. PE had that message that you have to have pride in yourself, help out and have pride in your community and lead a straight and honest life. Kids don't wanna hear that nowadays.
This song came out when I was in the military. I was fresh out of white suburbia and had no idea about the world and how things really were. PE's music is great, the message seemed extreme but as I saw some the things their message spoke about...I no longer thought so. Here we are over 20 years later and things are'nt much different, even with Obama in office. I agree with some of the other comments about rappers today. "Damn the game if it ain't sayin' nuttin' " certainly applies nowadays.
i for one needed to hear this back when this came out...truth is welcome...but i in no way say that justifys 'picking on a white person ' just because they are white...because there are a lot of white people that are good and fair...and NOT prejudice at ALL !....so it would be a travisty to treat someone harmful ..in response to anger at the 'general' prejudice pratices...feel me?...That would be just as 'Evil' as this !...they dont 'disagree' with Obama's stance?....they just cant believe it!
lol@1galo92ws!....so true but its sad because its what 'our' ancestors endured...no matter what 'color' we are...we are all human 'family' after all and right is right and wrong is wrong...the only problem is that it 'can' incite hatred..i was crying at watching the movie 'roots'?...i felt the 'injustice'...and i was on the side of the slaves?...but when i went back to school?...my black friends were all mad at me just for being white?...hell i didnt do it??i was like i feel the same way as you!
im white and i loved Public Enemy!...i loved this song!...Public Enemy never said they 'hated' ALL white people?...they just spoke with passion about the truth of oppression and how people especially black people felt under oppression...which was still being felt socially at the time of this video.. this song inspired me...and i knew a lot of black people that "trusted' it...or so it seemed to me?...but i didnt 'trust it'...because i knew 'white prejudice"..so unfair so wrong.
Best Hip Hop Group In Rap History Public Enemy 1990's Rap Music Is So Real I Was Born 1991 Luv it Real Politcal Rap From The Group Public Enemy Chuck D & Flavor Flav.
Best Hip Hop Group In Rap History Public Enemy 1990's Rap Music Is So Real I Was Born 1991 Luv it Real Politcal Rap From The Group Public Enemy Chuck D & Flavor Flav.
Best Hip Hop Group In Rap History Public Enemy 1990's Rap Music Is So Real I Was Born 1991 Luv it Real Politcal Rap From The Group Public Enemy Chuck D & Flavor Flav.
yeah reverse racism, that'll work.
brad123456789012 1 day ago
@brad123456789012 Reverse racism?? What do you mean by that?
TheThirdEyeCeesU 6 hours ago
This song is a PERFECT example of how a song can be so enjoyable (with beats, etc) to listen to, but at the same time delivers a strong/meaningful/powerful message.
No excuses Lil' Wayne, Drake, and _______________ (insert rapper names here)
PublicEnemy1982 5 days ago
public enemy
MrStephenman83 1 week ago
real hip hop not this fake shit
samia3030 1 week ago
classic!
beatmasta77 1 week ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Public Enemy
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Here come the drums! I bought this on cassette...yes, cassette...back when it first came out and jammed this over and over! Even at 13 years old, this song's message was not lost on me. I may not be black, but I'm a minority and I know what it's like to be held back and told that I'm never gonna be a damn thing. Public Enemy changed the way I looked at things. They showed me I shouldn't just sit back and let myself to be treated like crap. I needed to speak up and fight back! Fight the POWER!
mayo211 2 weeks ago
Here come the drums! I bought this on cassette...yes, cassette...back when it first came out and jammed this over and over! Even at 13 years old, this song's message was not lost on me. I may not be black, but I'm a minority and I know what it's like to be held back and told that I'm never gonna be a damn thing. Public Enemy changed the way I looked at things. They showed me I shouldn't just sit back and let myself to be treated like crap. I needed to speak up and fight back! Fight the POWER!
mayo211 2 weeks ago 6
American gangster ♥♥
musikdonVEVO 2 weeks ago
stop the schema of problem,reaction,sollution
102111nm 3 weeks ago
TODAY'S RAPPER'S R SLAVES!!THAT'S WHY THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR>CHAINS AND WHIPS
macho187MAN 3 weeks ago 4
....IF THAY WERE RAPPIN BOUT BITCHES & HOs THAY WOULD PLAY IT ON MAINSTREAM RADIO......PE IS THE ALARM CLOCK OF AMERIKKKA WAKE UP!! & FIGHT WALL STREET
RUBBERBANDFANS 3 weeks ago
Still can't truss it
Absoluttmusic 3 weeks ago 2
FUCK RACISM!!!! FUCK THE SYSTEM OF OPRESSION!!!!
bonjovi77 3 weeks ago
F.....K the system!!!
bonjovi77 3 weeks ago
Nowadays the artists are slaves to the music industr cos they like to drive their Bentleys and show off their bling...fucking pussies.
mousehead2000 1 month ago
as a child of the 80's PE schooled me when "real" school didn't, without PE I wouldn't be who I am today. 99% of rappers now are sellouts and wouldn't have stood a chance back in the day when hip-hop ruled supreme. we need a musical movement like this again....
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@nofutureface YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shifragri 4 weeks ago
@nofutureface YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shifragri 4 weeks ago
@nofutureface YES!
shifragri 4 weeks ago
You got to love what radical individuals do foe most part.
julioshawtylean76 1 month ago
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I'm a 22 year old rapper from Canada and I uploaded my first 2 tracks ever. I ain't begging you to come check it out, just do if you want. Thanks.
Dope D
DopeDTV 1 month ago
were they recreating the rodney king incident near the end? or just a way of showing police brutality?
TheMrBruised 1 month ago
молодцы блеат
harlem23ru 1 month ago
Can't wait to teach the dynamics of this rap song in my Spring 2012 English 137 course: African American Literature: Experiences . . .
EllesiaBlaque 1 month ago 12
@EllesiaBlaque RIGHT ON SISTA! Where were teachers like you in the 90's?!?!?!?! : /
Grammy2Be 3 weeks ago
i hate races ´cause a i am not the same that a white racist
elgritodelasardina 1 month ago
The racist comments make me love this video and song even more!!!! Their comments just mean its hitting the right people HARD hahahaha :D
yal100 1 month ago
12 folks got lost on their way to Bieber...
tonyzackery 1 month ago
Why the Fuck is the top related videos asher roth.
Dianderson1816 1 month ago
Quem Trouxe ?
wha2gonnedw 1 month ago
@wha2gonnedw MUNDO SEGUNDOOO
Vitor7235 1 month ago
Love The Song. But the video makes me so Fucking angry Just watching Black People Being Treated Like Shit
rampagecurruption 1 month ago
I WILL NEVER FORGET WHERE I COME FROM! I LOVE TO BE BLACK! BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL, BLACK POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EdibleBlackCat 1 month ago
whoa history and truth just put directly in your face like that ,very powerful
taytay1609 1 month ago
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I feel honored to be alive during that era of hip hop. Not only alive but paying attention. I didn't absentmindedly stumble across this beautiful music 5 years after it's peak, I was right there nodding my hooded head, stomping my Timbos on top of it. Much like I've wished I could have been around to see Hendrix play live, we know we were lucky to be a part of this time. Sadly we watch rap regress to mediocre rhymes and material meaning but being there back then will ALWAYS make up for it.
Regressive78 2 months ago
This racial back and forth wont stop huh. We are all human beings with complex differences. The problem lies were the constitution was drawn up for white americans and was never ammended for todays people or problems.
mrshanwash2 2 months ago
This world and humans are just jacked up. This is nothing new..Racial prejudice and wars either verbal or physical have been going on since the Garden of Eden over 2,000 years ago. This is the Devil's playground..he loves division. He used this type of method 2,000 years ago and is very successful. Would you stop doing something if you are successful? Of course not.
akajoyful 2 months ago
Roosevelt, NY - Long Island's own PE
QueensNewYorker718 2 months ago
always blame white people of being racist but look at yourselves. at least i have a education
Dsledge93 2 months ago
@Dsledge93 Well its unfortunate that your education didn't teach you that a sentence begins with a capital letter, and every sentence ends with a full stop. I think you should demand a refund.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 because this site isnt worth writing a whole fucking essay on. i dont put commas and all that shit on here because its just a fucking site. most people on here cant read anyway. especially ghetto blacks.
Dsledge93 2 months ago
@bolder2009 “Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome;
kennethketchum 1 month ago
@kennethketchum continued but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence. Frederick Douglass
You just academically kicked him in the balls. Love you my brother
kennethketchum 1 month ago
@kennethketchum Yeah 'educated' racist keyboard warriors are a trip and a half. Frederick Douglass was a wise man.
bolder2009 1 month ago
@Dsledge93 Also its "at least I have AN education". I guess grammar isn't part of your education.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Dsledge93 I'm white, I have an education and I wish you'd go kill yourself.
Lmaox94 2 months ago
@Lmaox94 ignorant
Dsledge93 2 months ago
never watched this video a full and so carefully, chak de Flavor, video hardcore
dgyrick 2 months ago
I know, I feel the same way, I love the commanding voice
SkyJamMusicVideos 2 months ago
when the time comes i'll have no mercy on these white devils
heckler171 2 months ago
HOTNESS!
PandaWeight 2 months ago
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Chuck D's politicalness and consciousness with Flavor Flav's sarcastic while dope rhymes makes them most influential and one of the best hip-hop groups ever.
hiphop4life24678 2 months ago
and toby is NOT the father!!!
lucoff 2 months ago
Those crackers are something else. Can't trust them.
wallysblack 3 months ago 2
@wallysblack
yeah and you niggers turn every place you live into a shithole
deiiii 2 months ago
@deiiii Fuck you Pig, little dick peckerwood lmfao
wallysblack 2 months ago
@wallysblack
omg that's so mean!
why don't you get an education you phaggot and stop blaming others for your problems
deiiii 2 months ago
@wallysblack nigger
Dsledge93 2 months ago
This my shit
dreeeee1 3 months ago
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Lowclef 3 months ago
Was Karl Marx right???? I sometimes wonder
Seekerism 3 months ago
So dope.
hannnnnahx33 3 months ago
i like how terminator x is just standing there
andybeck52 3 months ago
Uncle Chuck rules :-)
bolagi1000 3 months ago
My girl Regina King is in this video.....Public Enemy is my favorite!!
ladycat629 3 months ago
nsol
denismarginas 3 months ago
those slaves look pretty damn well fed
deiiii 3 months ago
@deiiii yo mama looks healthy
Losnb 3 months ago
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@Losnb
where do you think you would be right now if it wasn't for slavery?
deiiii 3 months ago
this is music that that makes you think!!!!!
Cant trust it!!!!!
No more glory!!!!!
wake up
wise up
raise up!!!!
BOXCHEVYBOY350 3 months ago
heavy message
steve41557 3 months ago 10
gnarly shit
steve41557 3 months ago
rap 101
asiankid1285 3 months ago
NEED THAT RINGTONE(DON'T SENTENCE ME JUGDE I AINT DID NOTHEN TO KNOW BODY
odogg03 4 months ago
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odogg03 4 months ago
Great song!
Muglosx 4 months ago
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fuck lil wayne..
jwelcome9 4 months ago
This gave me goose bumps when first herad this.
blackstruggle77 4 months ago
LOVE PEACE & RESPECT FROM SWITZERLAND!!!!!
doppelxchromosom1 4 months ago
Classic track..my have from Public Enemy. These guys are the original Hip-Hop maestro/pioneer. Salute from Borneo !!
reezewahab 4 months ago
Chuck D needs to teach today's shit how to rap, i am white & i love public enemy & chuck D, & show these white guys how to jump.
iguanna41 4 months ago in playlist iguanna41's favourites
I was looking for some hardcore hip hop for inspiration for a track I'm doing for a film, most of the rap these days has so little substance and the delivery is too soft..then I remembered Public Enemy
AlexaFlexaB 4 months ago
хуи негритосные, когда вы уже сдохните?
tynebejslana 4 months ago
one of the best rap songs ever. we need more of this, and less of... you know who i'm talking about. Chuck D, Tupac, Rza, who has something to say?
lobsangnyingpo 5 months ago
i was teen when this came out; now my mind is open and I finally get it completely. We need this message music back to wake the people again. This is similarities in chattel slavery and wage slavery. Working a job is still a form of slavery to this day...
realrell36 5 months ago 25
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@realrell36 Lol. No wonder so many black men are losers with no jobs, they actually believe that shit.
GmasterRED2 3 months ago in playlist american gangster soundtrack
after The execution last night this song fits my feeling
carmelgoddess612 5 months ago 2
As many times as I have seen this video, I saw someone I didn't notice before?
Actor Clifton Powell who played "Pinky" in "Next Friday" and "Friday After Next" and Chris Tucker's cousin "Luke" in the first "Rush Hour" movie, is a factory worker turning a steam valve, @ the 3:52 mark!
xtarheelinutah 5 months ago 2
A call to Aryans to duty :Force your beleifs laws and government on mother fakers such as: Police CIA FBI democrats republicans zionist hezullah and Give these mother fakers a taste of their own medicine
TheAryanBeauty 5 months ago
I effing love Public Enemy. I'm a 32 year old white girl. We need them back, stronger than ever.
madamewoselle 5 months ago 2
@madamewoselle We love ALL sisters of the struggle. If you love PE, then you now have your Black credentials. Remember brothers from the struggle
kennethketchum 1 month ago
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Rise up u permanent debt slaves and put parasite Semites: islamic fascis and zioinst Jews on trial: Quran(2:191): " Turn them out from where they turned you out and if they chase you and attack you at your sanctuary (homes) then slay them...." Amen Quran(9.5): So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters (devil who stole your rights to free will and free land that god gave u) wherever you find them, and take them captives ....Amen again
TheAryanBeauty 5 months ago
The song & video that opened my eyez as a shawty & put me on my quest 4 knowledge.
100% PUER UN-ADULTERATED HIP-HOP.
MakWun76 5 months ago
CLICK ON: disccentury, MY MUSIC, NEVER SEEN
disccentury 5 months ago
It's a good thing that you prefaced that comment with a statement about your being white. It would have totally lacked legitimacy otherwise.
jreed173abn 5 months ago
@jreed173abn your right....................But atleast SHE GETS IT! I would Fight & Die with you on my left & The white Girl on my right as we 3 with a nation of millions go around & get rid of the BS garbage thats filling the air waves & TV's trying to be seen as if it's REAL HIP HOP/RAP when it's nothing like this at all what so ever! I got ya back white girl Madamewoselle!
ciflyer 4 months ago
@ciflyer I can understand that dude. But the way I see it, rascism stems from seeing others as belonging to a group AND seeing yourself as belonging to a group. Solidarity lies with identifying ones self as a member of HUMANITY with a set of rights given to you by your maker, not by a government or an arbitrary pigmentation. You're both cool, but the destruction of color is the desired endstate. Until people can say that they simply like the music as opposed to attaching qualifiers...
jreed173abn 1 week ago
One of the best rap groups of all time.
ryan1wright 5 months ago
What made public enemy so good is that they delivered a message, but knew the importance of keeping the song so funky and positive that you were forced to listen to it. In nowadays positive songs miss the whole meaning of the making of a song positivity can be spread easily if the rhythm is funky, the lyrics is undeniably true and the message rides the beat like system rides our asses. 2011 Keep it real but keep it real funky remember what people want in music and the message will be transfered.
producerbigsouth 5 months ago
Good Song!!!
Gukuthegreat 5 months ago
Black August/Ramadan 2011!!1
“I Am A Revolutionary” –ChairMan Fred Hampton Sr.
Black August 30, 1800: Gabriel Prosser’s Slave Rebellion
Black August 28, 1955: Horrific murder of 14yr Old Emmett Till
Black August 30, 1948: EarthDay of ChairMan Fred Hampton Sr. of da Illinois Chapter of da Black Panther Party 4 Self-Defense
BillionGODSun 5 months ago
bravi e video bellissimo
giosep1 6 months ago
Public Enenmy greatest rapper on this level
kingbuda59 6 months ago
powerful video
nem700 6 months ago
Public Enemy's biggest pop hit- yes, I said pop hit!!!!
MyJunior1975 6 months ago
Check our S#*t.
Live Mixture of BLUES, RAP and ROCK
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SweatshopFamily 6 months ago
Here come the Drums! Can't Sludge it!!!!
'Just-Watch' you're Step!! Can't Sludge, Trust it!!!!
MsTROYHARRIS 7 months ago
Here come the Drums! Can't Sludge it!!!!
MsTROYHARRIS 7 months ago
Sounds like a digital underground beat shock g would make
ThaNsaneOne 7 months ago
Beware of the hand, when it's coming from the left,
I ain't trippin' just watch your step. CANT TRUSS IT!
Chuck D is a lyrical genius.
jsrl317 7 months ago
Grab any tune on Mediaoutletonline. Just find it with Gooogle :)
AgneseLittle30 7 months ago
Now this is what you call "message music"!!
reeree212 7 months ago
only a fuckin cracker or a dumbazz ignorant person wud say: " i dnt see how this is educational"
wtf
psychodellicFaubio 7 months ago
heard this one the way to work today lol...
circa73skater 8 months ago
Miss this song. Having said that, how do they make that white suit and hat with glasses move with no one in it?
joeriginal 8 months ago
one of my favorite PE beats
2Reed0 8 months ago
Time to get moving
MrDecal 8 months ago
Here come the drums
Wrightwasright 8 months ago
Is that regina king playing the love interest?
monilovelocs 8 months ago
@monilovelocs Yes it is.
2000steady 7 months ago
@2000steady lol after all these years did not realize that until now!
monilovelocs 7 months ago
Public Enemy's Chuck.D gives loads of knowledge in ''H.OW ..TO.. R.AP"
that title is what the book is called which he is in, its amazing, and has every1 givin information - Tribe, Kane, G Rap, Pharoahe Monch, Pharcyde, +looads more...
clarencejones07 8 months ago 19
Nothing is better than this. Old school.
encmikevero 8 months ago
Even if ya dont speak English, the beats here will get ya movin forward. The masters deliver a classic......spread the gospel, VEVO or not
bluescat59 9 months ago
fuck you vevo!
ck1kid 9 months ago
I do feel that for the most part people can achieve whatever they set their mind to achieve. I am saying that slavery and its residual effects through-out our history has had a major impact on how the black culture has developed in this country and is still impacting it today. I think it is very important that this fact be well understood and not forgotten. Public Enemy does an excellent job of not letting anyone forget!
phillyrob817 9 months ago
Neither I, nor my parents, nor my grandparents had the opportunity that yours had. You seem to take it for granted and assume everyone has had your ancestor's same head start in life. And yes they had a head start, whether you choose to realize it or not. I am not saying that life has been a piece of cake for you and that have not had to rise above many obstacles. I am not saying slavery is an excuse for a lack of motivation or an excuse for negative behavior.
phillyrob817 9 months ago
This generation is the first to be able to go to a school of their choice, but even now is often excluded because of race. It is just not as overtly done as it once was in the past.
phillyrob817 9 months ago
You act as if the playing field is now level because of Obama. Do you think he would have had a chance in hell of winning if the situation that the country found itself in was not so desperate. This is the worst economic situation that 99% of all living Americans have ever seen. And that is why he was voted in. White people said "at this point we don't care, just please fix it". Even so look at what clear racism he has faced since he has been in office.
phillyrob817 9 months ago
You see it in videos, movies, and elsewhere. Light skin and long hair is shown as the basis of beauty. It is white people who control and have always controlled these media sources, and therefore dictate what we see now and have always seen. Use of the N-word by black people and black on black crime, stems from a lack of self respect because of an effective negative image campaign that has always existed whether intentional or not.
phillyrob817 9 months ago
You should educate yourself about the residual effects of slavery and institutional racism. The instilling of self hatred perpetrated by whites, and perpetuated thought-out history via various media sources like books, magazines, and TV hasn't stopped. The lighter is better notion historically used to divide slaves, still permeates the black community today. You see it in videos, movies, and elsewhere.
phillyrob817 9 months ago 2
jsm7977:Before I looked, I said he must not be black, and I see that I am right. Young man you know absolutely nothing, and I do mean nothing about the subject on which you comment. This makes showing that video that much more crucial.
phillyrob817 9 months ago
Life is what people make of it. Period. Slavery has ZERO bearing on accomplishing dreams. Its an excuse. Any lame excuse someone comes up with as to why they cant get ahead in life is just that, an excuse and a piss poor one at that.
jsm7977 9 months ago
@jsm7977 The book is called POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary. Please youtube her and listen to her. She will show you the legacy that slavery still has on the psyche of black people. I dare you to read this powerful book. I dare you. I thought the same way until I saw her work and heard her lecture. Also listen to Dr. John Henrick Clark and Dr. Amos Wilson's BLUEPRINT FOR BLACK POWER on youtube. Just lisTen to all of them on youtube if you are really serious.
kennethketchum 1 month ago
The rappers you named are idiots in comparison. Talking bout the struggle, the come up, the triumph, empowering lyrics..Im ALL for that. I will stand firm and say kids today do NOT need to be reminded in pop culture about slavery. Its counter-productive. If they want to learn about that, go to the library or something. Knowing your ancestry is fine but it has no place in mainstream culture. Its irrelevant. Not ONE person alive today in the US has ever met someone enslaved.
jsm7977 9 months ago
@jsm7977 @jsm7977 It is called wage slavery. Please see ENDGAME: BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT on youtube. Watch all parts - entire documentary is over 2 hours but the bonus is after the 2nd hour. by Alex Jones. See anything he puts out on youtube. Funny, but when I reference books and documentaries, I never get any response. Is it because no one reads anymore or challenges their beliefs? and Alex Jones is WHITE. We are all enslaved
kennethketchum 1 month ago
I appreciate his dope lyrics, sick beats and passion for what he raps about but YO, for real... there was never and still is no reason to show images of blacks in chains man. He jus propagatin' when he do that. Thats real talk.
jsm7977 9 months ago
@jsm7977 It has nothing to do with propagating anything. I think he was just trying to show that shit ain't changed from slavery to now and that you still have some white folks out there that are racist assholes. No matter how hard you try to forget it, it is part of black history. And without slavery, you would have never had some of the people that were heroes in its downfall like Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass to name a couple. "Those who forget their history, are doomed to repeat it."
magich8ball 9 months ago
@magich8ball - I feel you but Im nore inclined to think society in general tends to lean my way in this day and age. YES I will agree that during the early hip-hop movement perhaps there was a need for great lyricists like Chuck D that hit on this. Nowadays not so much. Know what I mean.
jsm7977 9 months ago
@jsm7977 Actually there is more of need for this today. Who do black youth have as a positive role model in hip-hop? Lil Wayne? nope. Drake? nope. All these rappers today talk about is gettin money and getting the freshest ride and the most ice and material shit. PE had that message that you have to have pride in yourself, help out and have pride in your community and lead a straight and honest life. Kids don't wanna hear that nowadays.
magich8ball 9 months ago
this is one of the dopest videos i have ever seen the cocept of that ole fashion house nigga sad that there still alot of them out there
jerrymill89 9 months ago
VEVO...Cant trust it
TotallyTank 9 months ago
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I think this song will NEVER get old..
LIKE if your listening to this in May 2011! :D
checkout ComeAndBuyMyWeed if you like weed
its fucking hilarious! XD
StarBright818 9 months ago
Dislike EVERYTHING Vevo....
ShrinkingDad 9 months ago
the base on this vevo version is so shit with every song they put on. so shit is vevo
xDylanBaldx 9 months ago
3 people got knocked out by Terminator X
AirborneEASY 9 months ago
i hate waiting for advertisements
bertola420 9 months ago
Doesnt that look like Clifton Powell 3:52
TheHiphopHead11 9 months ago
This came out when I was starting to wake up; remember we had been asleep for about 50,000 years and enslaved for the last 400+. Wake up God!
kevin6xofthefoi 10 months ago
They want me to pledge allegiance to what flag? and acknowledge WHAT constitution? They can kiss my black ass! m$%@#*&'s !!!
choclatdrop16 10 months ago
This song came out when I was in the military. I was fresh out of white suburbia and had no idea about the world and how things really were. PE's music is great, the message seemed extreme but as I saw some the things their message spoke about...I no longer thought so. Here we are over 20 years later and things are'nt much different, even with Obama in office. I agree with some of the other comments about rappers today. "Damn the game if it ain't sayin' nuttin' " certainly applies nowadays.
ThePheonix72 10 months ago
American Gangster
ChangeZ89 10 months ago
And 20 years later we get house niggers like lil wayne, jay z and kanye west.
Chuck D could outsmart every "smart" rhyme they've ever rapped with one line.
lol at Terminator X at 0:33 though.
skeletorphd 10 months ago
chuck D Love you! Public Enemy love the message! I keep yall on the forefront with the message in yalls music!
where is the video of "we are at war with sistah soujah??
wifiyah 10 months ago
678 words in 5 and 1/2 minutes. Very few repeats. Nobody flows like Chuck D.
Made to be listened to in a 98 loaded with 15s. Makes the license plate rattle.
DonMegaphone 10 months ago
Real Rapp music. F&#$k hip hop
MrDecal 10 months ago
i for one needed to hear this back when this came out...truth is welcome...but i in no way say that justifys 'picking on a white person ' just because they are white...because there are a lot of white people that are good and fair...and NOT prejudice at ALL !....so it would be a travisty to treat someone harmful ..in response to anger at the 'general' prejudice pratices...feel me?...That would be just as 'Evil' as this !...they dont 'disagree' with Obama's stance?....they just cant believe it!
donnaskf 10 months ago
lol@1galo92ws!....so true but its sad because its what 'our' ancestors endured...no matter what 'color' we are...we are all human 'family' after all and right is right and wrong is wrong...the only problem is that it 'can' incite hatred..i was crying at watching the movie 'roots'?...i felt the 'injustice'...and i was on the side of the slaves?...but when i went back to school?...my black friends were all mad at me just for being white?...hell i didnt do it??i was like i feel the same way as you!
donnaskf 10 months ago
LOL!
donnaskf 10 months ago
im white and i loved Public Enemy!...i loved this song!...Public Enemy never said they 'hated' ALL white people?...they just spoke with passion about the truth of oppression and how people especially black people felt under oppression...which was still being felt socially at the time of this video.. this song inspired me...and i knew a lot of black people that "trusted' it...or so it seemed to me?...but i didnt 'trust it'...because i knew 'white prejudice"..so unfair so wrong.
donnaskf 10 months ago
@donnaskf You are a "soul" sister in my book if you love PE.
kennethketchum 1 month ago
WHERE YALL AT ???? ITS NOW TIME FOR A P. E. COME BACK CAUSE THESE CRACKERS AND UPPED ASS NIGGERS DONE LOST THERE MINDS
donnie859donnie 10 months ago
Their music is still relevant today(look at what congress is doing/not doing)! This is the Hip hop that will live on forever.
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Tell em MALCOLM! Your words will never die, Farakhan words will never die, Public Enemy's words will never die. Rebels with a cause!
johnsmarkland 10 months ago