Show 'em Whatcha got--Public Enemy #1

[mrfmj123]

"...The same guy that gave wisdom to Rosa Parks, gave strength to Martin Luther King, to Malcolm X."

As a black male, I will someday be like these great black revolutionaries.

[thehungrycannibal]

I thought this would have more views.

[Susitalo]

Best sample and maybe the best instrumental hip hop song ever. Dilla might take the instru crown, but this one is more personal to me, so it beats all. ALL.

[AtoneMuhammad]

Sis. Dr. Ava Muhammad teaching the Truth.

[d0z3rr]

What is the sax riff from?

[fallenembers1214]

@d0z3rr I think its from "Rumpshaker" by Wreckx-n-effect

[aragazzzzz]

@fallenembers1214 Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light

[nilhav]

@fallenembers1214

NO! This song was out years before Rumpshaker

[68skate68]

@d0z3rr dont listen to fallenembers... he has no idea what he is talking bout seeing as rumpshaker came out in 92 and this song came out 4 years earlier. he must not understand that just about every hip hop song was sampled from a different genre of music. o and the song is called Darkest Light by Lafayette Afro Rock Band.

[aragazzzzz]

@d0z3rr Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light

[kinoboy94]

Lafayette Afro Rock Band was tha shit

[250Bikes]

GOT A RIGHT TO BE HOSTILE freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude

[SeymourSkinner]

Freedom is road seldom travelled by the multitude . . .

- Harvey "Joe" Henderson

[ismaba22]

Great job

[juicepopabitch]

The original music is "Darkest Light" by The Lafayette Afro-Rock Band. We sampled it first. Album was recorded in late 1987 to 1988. Released in 1988. Back to The Hotel didn't come out until 1992.

[jordanretro1]

i love the bomb squads production. nation of millions is without a doubt one of my favorite complete albums of all time. i love every track. this is some powerful music.

[KappaDoll]

I used to play this intro over and over again back in the day! I wish it was a whole song!

[hewitt718]

Son of Shaft....Bar-Kays

[nickrb888]

this beat is sampled off of the song, "Back to the Hotel" from N2DEEP

[Greeksoopaman]

N2DEEP dropped a few years after this. I think The Bomb Squad/ PE were the first guys to sample this.

[MRMIZONER]

@nickrb888 your an idiot

[wallbreaker2]

"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back" was the best Hip Hop album ever produced!!!!

[crazybeanhead]

where has the quote "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes" come from

[24Adrian24]

Frederick Douglas!

[SlimGangstaGangsta]

@24Adrian24 no it was from the wattstax documentary wasent it

[TakerFan72]

@crazybeanhead,The Bar-Kays saxophonist, Harvey "Joe" Henderson speaks saying, "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude" (a phrase later made famous when it was sampled by Public Enemy in "Show 'Em Whatcha Got").-from the movie Wattstax.

[ninjaspiceattacks]

@crazybeanhead from here..... wattstax, bar-kays, "son of shaft feel it" (it's on you tube)

[desko8]

Jay-z?

what's that¿ xDD

jajaja

[nylgnd38]

ice cube "friday"

[cherishshanae]

this is better than jay's version

[jayjiggahov]

damn thats hard i want to say P.e. was better cuz of it takes a nation million album rap album ever but Jay is my nigga

[leeperryismerry]

F*ck Jay Z

haha

[Davide131]

doesen't ice cube rap to that beat?!?...does anyone know what the name is!??!

[spekion]

friday

[Davide131]

nah dude it aint friday!! i swear its a song i've heard before...its the same beat as N2Deep

[giraud74]

That's right. First track on the B-side of "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back". Back in the day, the very first time I put the needle to this groove and I heard the sax blow, a stone cold chill went through my body and I had chickenpocks alover me.

P.E. still #1!!!

[kehhoagland]

whoooooo

gave me chills then and does now

"It Takes A Nation..."

on wax it's side 2, track 1

[mjv50]

i think this was the intro on "don't believe the hype" CD.

[501sabu501]

really good... so thats where jay-z got his song from.

[buckbumble]

@501sabu501 Jay Z got the sample from The Layfayette Afrobeat Orchestra's tune called 'Darkest Light'. He also uses a sample of Johnny Pate's 'Shaft in Africa'. Both big blaxploitation tunes.

[KillaBeesOnDaSwarm]

@501sabu501 The original sample's actually from Darkest Light - Lafayette Afro Rock Band

[discolim0nade]

@501sabu501 and turned it into...show me what you got lil mama -.-

[discolim0nade]

@501sabu501 execpt his song follows the hype

[amgeda]

@501sabu501 This song sampled Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light

[2cool0]

@501sabu501 yeah and public enemy got it from somehwere else...the power of sampling :D

[techniqstechnishion]

I was a young Rican who came here straight from the island when this was out. This was the first track on their sophomore album "It Takes.."- made my hairs stand up when I first heard it. At the time, didnt know about the people they were referring to (except MLK) but now I do..thanks to PE and KRS (cuz you didnt really learn it in school)THANKS!

[nilhav]

@techniqstechnishion

You must have first listened to "It takes a Nation to Hold Us Back" starting on the second side of the album, because this is the first song on that side. The first track on the album was the intro called "Countdown to Armageddon," followed by "Bring the Noise"

[Coyotewoman9]

Omg, i've been looking for this for an hour! thank you for posting!!!!! ^_^

[Portilloizay]

classic public enemy