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  • I keep thinking the beat is being made by a kettle. It's pretty annoying to be honest and I guess that's deliberate but it doesn't excuse what I see as unmusicality!

  • Absolutely one of the best Hip-Hop jams of ALL time...this song still gets me hype lol PE was ahead of their time. This joint will smash anything on the radio now.

  • EPIC!!

  • Nice to see that they still perform. Old skool hip hop rulez.

    Bigger, better than that crap from nowadays.

  • True Legends of Hip hop. The S1w was in full effect back then

  • FUCKING THE BEST PE#1 From a Old WhiteBOy From the Fighting city of Philadelphia

  • They introduced this white boy to the real deal.

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  • San Andreas

  • MAD PROPS TO P.E!! Flava Flav will always b the number 1 hype man EVER!!

  • Still the Jam.

  • Yeah...and like 'jules5434' said...Chuck D still...still...still...has not sold out to this day!! PE was no joke.

  • I hate the fact, that Flava is presented as a joke, most of the time (even by himself)...and yet, he was apart of one of the greatest music ever made. PE would not be PE, without Flava. I hope all his antics is making him some dollars...he deserves it. He's still the best hype man ever.

  • white boy who discovered PE in college. never been the same since. rap is shit today compared to old school. they on my time, dig it!

  • 3:24......What happened to Scraching on the turntables???

  • @Teardehawkee DJ'S NOW DAYS ARE LAZY AND SORRY. BACK IN THE 80'S I WAS A 3 TURNTABLE WIZARD

  • RADIO!! SUCKAS NEVA PLAY ME!!!

  • HAAAAAAAAAARD

  • @jules5434 Yeah man i love PE but Beastie Boys were actually before PE and theres definitely nothing that describes their style

  • tha shit..cd

  • This song makes me happy

  • This is hip hop! That lame stuff out today can't compare on any level.

  • ROUGH BECUZ IM A MAN

  • the ending is sweating and mind blowing all beacues beacuse of the anger

  • GREATEST HIP HOP/RAP RECORD EVER MADE? DONT BELIEVE ME? LOOK IT UP!!!!

  • Music like this wakes your mind up

  • "From a rebel it's final on black vinyl...SOUL & ROCK 'N ROLL COMIN' LIKE A RHINO..." Chuck D raised me...

  • God, I miss when rap music scared the shit out of White people...

  • @xBITCHESxHATExMEx That's funny i'm white and I've always loved Hip Hop and Rap.

  • @The12Jacob There are always exceptions, Glad you understood it from the jump...

  • "i know ur listenin, i caught u pissin in ur pants..." damn chuck d is the man!!

  • @andreshorter71

    damn right baby...going out to the dislikes 4 pussyholes!

  • "Terminator X!!!!"..... scratch scratch scratch...."Terminator X!!!!"..... scratch scratch scratch...."Terminator X!!!!"..... scratch scratch scratch....

    EPIC!!!!! Ya SUCKAAAAAz!!!!!

    Long live The golden era of rap 1984-1997 RIP

  • Wow .....I remember this in the 80's. This to me is the real deal. Classic rap. It all started here to me. I am not really into rap, but every now and then I sit and listen to certain songs and then understand what is being said here. pain, suffering, disgust ...We all need to come together and love one another. Respect is where it begins. Hey I am just a Hippie stuck in the 60's and 70's, but I give credit to everyone for their hard work.

  • Give me the lane i throw it down your throat like barkley

  • PE is the greatest GOUP/CREW in the history of Hip Hop. When this shit dropped Rap music was on the map but there was no category that described their sound, lyrics, or image. PE was viewed as a MILITANT group, Later they were considered GANGSTA, then CONSCIOUS....LOL! No group inspired the streets and the classroom equally. Chuck D continues to maintain a high level of credibility. He is a sought after speaker on college campuses and he is welcome in ANY HOOD...U dnt blv me? ax smbdy!

  • @jules5434 I totally agree with you. I am the mother of the new (honestly I don't know what to call it) rap that to me is nothing but brand dropping. Of 3 sons one gets it listens to Nas and Tupac. PE to him too old school. As the adolescent breaks my heart the power of madison ave. As conscientious as I am peer pressure too strong for 1 of my boys. Breaks my heart

  • @ebonilia ...I know what you mean. My daughter is 11 and loves Pop music ie. Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift. But thanks to Youtube I have been able to intruduce her to different sounds both old and new. When she was 6 yrs old we would listen to Doobie Bros songs. Now, when she hears their melody in a TV AD, she thinks she pretty hip. Conscious music is still out there and we have more access than ever before. In regard to our children, simply play the music and let it do what it does...

  • I still maintain that this is the greatest hip hop song of all time...you would have had to be between 14 and 25 in 1988 to agree with me!

  • @olskoolrich

    ...when this dropped there was nothing that sounded like it. PE had other joints before this, but this single put them on the map.

  • What Pac yall listening to? the man had many songs where he spoke the truth. now biggie on the other hand had no message.

  • 3 people ( dislikes) have some nerve.you need to explain yourself.in fact,don t bother,it will only come out gibberish

  • "Tables turn, suckers burn n' learn"

  • stil the best public enemy

  • PAC and Biggy were illuminati sellouts, why do u think they got so big and when pac wanted out, they killed him, the jews own all of you, wake up.

    Ive listened to pac and biggy, THEY dont even come close to PE!

  • @GazzaRover how can you be so retarded

  • YEAH BOY.

  • Terminator X terminate em.

    Terminate all these wack stupid ass new skool rappers out here.

  • HIP HOP at its best

  • REAL HIP HOP!!

  • @digitalrazorbladez woooord is uuuuup!!!!!!!

  • This crew are so deep it's rediculous, the music nowadays are full of nothing except tits, alcohol weed and shit.Radio suckers never play me.The new God is cash, the devil takes over so idiots follow.

  • @theroofl1 i know what your on about to

  • this is well clever music.

  • One of the most important songs, albums, and artist in American music! Had it not been for Enemy, hip hop would have died a long time ago.

  • This sound of boiling kettle always gives me goosebumps.

  • @mustaine75 never released that it was a kettle haha sick cunt

  • @mustaine75 thats maceo parkers horn blast from "the grunt" right there!

  • Lil Wayne is "Illuminati" controlled as is many popular Bill Board rappers today.

    PE's Professor Griff was falsely accused of being against "jews" around 1990, when PE were at their peak of their career. They exposed what we call "the Illuminati" to its fullest - just never using that phrase - and they got punished for it.

    In the years to come, real rap got off the Bill Board and released by bling-bling, sex & $ oriented pop/MTV BS with no political critic of society or government.

  • Funky Drummer!

  • @DeepNYCHouse James Brown understands. Say it again!

  • We know what it is

  • This dude and this song is my daily anthem till I die. Rebel without a pause and fuck the world.

  • Why the fuck are you guys talking about Rap? Fuck Rap... this is Hip Hop!!!

  • What's with the negative comments about rap today? Can't we all just listen to these songs peacefully without the constant reminder of rap today?

  • sk8ing to ths cause street sk8ing is to rebel

  • o rep do mundo..é isso ai mano..sou seu fã numero hum...

  • watched a documentary on the kings a few nights back , good memorys..

  • Rapper of now a days are soft lyrical compared to P.E.

    

  • LIL Wayne cant touch any of this !!! I

  • U used to beat off at ur desk back in tha day?

  • i used to do this beat on my desk back in the day

  • classic.

  • any one who wear skinny jeans are gay! There are no skinny jeans in the MEN Department! If you don't believe me go check! Lil Wayne is not the best rapper to exist. If you like old school, how can you say that.

  • @oryanquest know what else is kind of gay? men critiquing other men's clothes. 

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  • @oryanquest Really? Public enemy liked punk and were punk as fuck and tons of punk bands wore skinny jeans. Why dont you go listen to some more ignorant music to fit you

  • @dengatoman Why argue, he just said Public Enemy is more hardcore than new rap.

  • @dengatoman Come on man! you sound stupid. You have no idea what you are talking about. Stop trying to be an internet thug and go fix bikes or something!

  • @oryanquest I'm not trying to be an internet thug, I just think its stupid that people can comment on PE videos who were about black power and equality, and then use gay as an insult, and everyone is just okayy with it.

  • Terminator X ★

  • I still got this album x

  • was this in GTA: San Andreas?

  • @Ciaran55 yes

  • this was back when grown men rapped and had bass in their chest,lol..nowadays you got these lil soft, metrosexual, half a fag ass,emo cats whining and giggling all on rap tracks like school girls

  • @damen74 exactly!

  • @damen74

    one of the best posts I've ever seen on here.

  • When rapping was about hard lives and the 'Black Oppression' - now its all materialistic bullshit and bitches. Lets force a stereotype on ourselves that the media portrays, that makes sense...

  • " Force my opinion with Volume!"

  • biggie & pac spoke rubbish, chuck had a point with a message & still delivered it with skills

  • @546fatboy wow man, biggie had flow and was dope, pac talked about real shit and how shit affected the black community which isnt rubbish haha.. dont talk shit about big and pac!

  • @546fatboy not true,but chuck did make good points,pac and big was street poetry

  • @546fatboy TUPAC NEVER SPOKE RUBBISH

  • @546fatboy TUPAC NEVER SPOKE RUBBISH

  • tupac is the best rapper who the fuck is chuck d ???????? biggie smalls is the second best and plus theres alkmost no rap now a days the call it hip hop

  • @efrainhobo2 crack head

  • @efrainhobo2 Useless comment

  • THIS BROKE DOWN EVERYTING

  • da bomb squad!!!

  • the greatest rap record ever...from the greatest rap album ever.

    today's rap is a rotten corpse.

  • This remade music for white kids like me 25 years ago...it's that big of a goddamn deal...

  • Rap it Bros! Tell em what UP!!!!

  • coolest beat ever

  • 0:12. Captain Falcon's cameo appearance?

  • I use to listen to the radio and tape music for my brother so he could listen in his car....wow memories

  • Sukh Knight - Diesel Not Petrol at 146 BPM vs Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause at 73 BPM REBIRTH OF A CLASSIC .. well for those of yall who dig dubstep and old school Rap... cant believe this was from 1988 ..  time traveling right now ...

  • one of the dopest songs i ever heard!

  • Thanks to Dr. Kapono, I downloaded this Album

  • listen to the lyrics.. compare this masterpiece to some s**t from solder boy or justin beiber or Lil W... I can still see this blasting on some box high on the shoulder summer 19**.

  • ATTITUDE WHEN IM ON FIRE

    GIVE ME THE LANE , I THROW IT DOWN YOUR THROAT LIKE BARKLEY "

  • Drake and Lil Wayne couldn't write this type of shit if Chuck D and all the Black Panthers fucked them in their gay lil' asses!!

  • @ftechone I didn't realize getting fucked in the ass by Chuck D and Black Panthers, can help you write better rhymes. Shout out to Chuck D and all the black panthers, I need to get ass fucked ASAP, my rhymes aren't good enough yet. (I hear that getting ass fucked by you guys will improve my skills).... Shm

  • @YourMomThinksImC00L Clearly u need the right motivation...and I'm the MAN to give it to u sunshine!!

  • @YourMomThinksImC00L ....and if u have a friend I'll light up both u daisies!!!

  • @YourMomThinksImC00L "Public Enemy #1 and #2" LOL

  • i jammed this HARD IN 1988!!! 20yrs old baby!

  • GTA SAN ANDREAS FOREVER

  • pieces in one big chess game , go take a shower booy

  • ...That is the shit..mahalo...

    Chuck D the starter....

  • Best rap album ever!

  • @maniloads i totally agree..still tio this day listen to that album...everyfuckinday!

  • def jam...tell you who i am!

  • People think I hate all rap 'cause I like metal. But I like rap a lot, OLDSCHOOL!!!!!! New rap sucks dick. Who else agrees? lil wayne is probabaly only popular from whiggers who think they're cool. If you think lil wayne is the best rapper to exist, you're not a rap fan. Rap isn't my first choise of music and I know that.

  • @97Grimsta Word.

  • @97Grimsta Hey sonny boy, you're nobody to tell people whether or not they're rap fans depending on what they like. You say you're into oldschool but obviously you've never heard of "Express Yourself". Go back to your Frank Zappa or whatever super out-there bullshit you think makes you cool.

    And this is coming from a guy who doesn't like anything playing on today's radio.

  • @ps2stony Well it's just my opinion. Lil Wayne is no where near being an MC. I got so flustered one day one some kid at school tried to say Lil Wayne was the best rapper of all time, then when I countered that with my favorite MC's he then tried to say Lil Wayne had to be in the top 2 best rappers of all time. It's just annoying. And my comment was an oppinionated statment, like it or lump it. Not trying to be cool it's my thoughts. And I listen to N.W.A I was expressing myself.

  • @97Grimsta Man I know the feeling. I got interested in music because of Metal, but there's good stuff to be found all over the musical spectrum; I listen to all kinds of stuff these days. Petty genre wars have to end.

  • @ThisMortalCoil64 agreed.

  • @97Grimsta Agreed, I listen to Drum & bass music and Trance music, but when it comes to hip-hop, Public Enemy is where it's at!!

  • @97Grimsta Fuck yes man. I am the exact same way. The Wu, Biggie, Tupac, this, old school is where its at. Metal and rock is better IMO, but even a lot of the new stuff there sucks. Popular music in general is going down the shitter.

  • @jumpingjehosafad Agreed, over produced, use of effects like atuotune (rappers don't even need it) generic song structure and beats, annoying reapting choruses that repeat the same 5 words, THINGS KEEP ON GETTING EVEN MORE SHITTIER BY THE YEAR! Out of all current popular radio music, there's only one artist I like who recieves a lot of comercial airplay and that's Bruno Mars because I actually find him talented. Most music these days without hard digging is *pukes*

  • @97Grimsta  i agree

  • @97Grimsta Well said.

  • @97Grimsta i agree new rap is for fags

  • @97Grimsta

    Rap+Metal= ultra violent Fuck the system

    In other words, the only difference between Real Rap and Real Metal, is the cultural backround... The tripping about it being one or the other is social barbie drama theme... anyone else who is into both might want to look for a rare ep by Otep: Jihad... it combines both rap and metal, in a way that actually sounds good... \M?

  • @Deathxhasxrisen * \M/

  • YUM !

  • I wore this cd and BDP (My Phlisophy) slap the fuck out!!!!!

  • @Simp308z Fresh for 88'

    You Suckerz 1 luv

    keyz-

  • What an crazy good beat!!!!

  • its really fukn sad and pathetic that we went from real music (rap) like this, to piece of shit young money garbage

  • They kick ass.

  • The BombSquad with Hank and Keith Shocklee , their sound was undeniable . Imo ,the PE sound was a heavy influence on other hip hop classic albums like NWA's Straight Outta Compton " and other joints at that time . PE and their team was ruff

  • "Simple and plain. Give me the lane. I'll throw it down your throat like Barkley" Lyrics like that with X on the turntables.... loved it. I remember back in college this used to be the last song, indicating the party is over and people would be disappointed because this song was so ill and you didn't want the party to end.

  • VH1 should be petitoned to do a classic album episode dedicated to this epochal, monumental moment in Hip-Hop that is entitled "It Takes a Nation of Million to Hold Us Back..."

  • Nearly died when this was played on fresh meat.

  • YOU SYMBOLIZE HOPE

  • When hiphop was hiphop !

  • Name one rapper putting it down like this today. smh

  • 'can't wait for the Mp4'...

  • Go Chuck

  • One of the best 5 minutes of my life. I just wish it could be re-mastered/released with louder bass. Love that bass!

  • my fav song off this masterpiece..Bass is crazy,Chuck went into lyrical overload..

  • ◕_◕ great!!!

  • tha best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 3 people are rebel without a cause :)

  • I remember the summer of 89 I believe when Public Enemy went on tour with LL Cool, Doug E. Fresh, NWA, Eric B. & Rakim. DAMN!!! Greatest rap concert of all times!! Hands down....

  • @hvyw8tbxr1 That had nothing on Kane, Biz, Doug E., Kool Moe, BDP and Eric B and Rakim in 88- 4 hours of Hip-Hop- with LL fuming backstage while Kool Moe was dissin him

  • the best lp ever!

  • THE ENEMY PUBLIC WE REALLY GIVE A DAMN.PE HAD US THINKING & TALKING LIKE SOLDIERS...THE GOLDEN DAYS OF RAPPING!!!

  • Chuck's Finest Hour......he was killin shit ! THE Platinum Voice ! Terminator X was the turntable titan !

  • Straight classic!! Dont hear tables gettin turned like this anymore.,Terminator X was a beast!

  • rap conquers the pop!

  • .......

  • Fresh Meat!

  • PUBLIC ENEMY has much love in the U.K and thats a understatement!!!

  • Classic.