The Enemy Battle Hymn of the Public

From How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People who Sold their Soul??? 2007

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hip-hop
• rap
• chuck
• flavor
• flav
• public
• enemy
• sell
• soul
• 2007
• battle
• hymn

[tajiijat]

Well songs of this genius will never make it on Amerikkkan radio. The generation that is 'radio' friendly is long past intellectual stimulation on a whole. Black radio stations as well as the magazines are all white owned, so true hip hop will never be played unless its a flashback moment. If rap music were held to the standards of the originals 95% of the current cats would not exist....50 and jay Z are included in that also!..

[andyhibbert]

True and i dont see it changing anytime soon

[BigStepOne]

Im suprised there hasnt been more comments and views on this. I think this song is pretty hardhitting with the lyrics and all, gives alot of food for thought.

Im from the UK and personally like, considering how our media has only begun to portray and propagate how dire the situation is in Afghanistan now operations in Iraq are coming to a close is pretty obsurd. Same how WMDs are never mentioned in regards to Iraq anymore, now it's all liberation apparantly.

Whatd you guys think?

[andyhibbert]

pretty good view, i havent really heard much about afghanistan lately. Then again just like Chuck D says "New faschism, on another channel"

[EBHS230DE]

i love black people

[andyhibbert]

well..dont you love all people no matter what colour they are?

[V8Fiero2M8]

@tajiijat Actually the reason why these kind of songs make it to the top is because they're against whoever or whatever owns the stations. And by the way it's also not the white people. It has to do more with corporations than any kind of people at all. Public Ememy was much stronger when it was political only on the left and right level. Now they're on the deeper level to expose the real truth that both the left and the right are just part of the same thing.

[V8Fiero2M8]

@edthewicked People should know by now that there are no terrorists. This is just a cover to make all this look legit.

[edthewicked]

@andyhibbert Yeah, because the polish is wearing off & they shine of their lies is fading. It's even worse than when the Russians invaded in the 80s --- our military is just going around wiping out whole villages just to kill a couple of "terrorists" hiding among their people. Plus don't forget, oil ain't the only valuable commodity coming out of there; our govt. wants to get in on some of that opium/heroin trade cash, too!!

[bradleysmith11]

UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE ... :)

[ayiska57]

wow look at this now public enemy is rapping about a political subject wat r rappers rapping about today money, cars and jewlery

[brownholepink]

real hip hop that brings a mutha fucka in that makeing feel like a part of the march!!!

[TruthSeekerEternal]

Dope beat!

[tajiijat]

Unfortunately, rap music has been watered down so much, that the people that are really taking notice of it within the last 10 years think its in its original state?!? It has become the new 'crack cocaine'. My mother says its "condescension music", because anytime you 'have' to call people derogatory names in order for them to listen to you its condescension. Thank God for PE!!! KRS ONE!!! RAKIM!!! IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE!!! MOS DEF!!! THE LAST POETS!!!!....etc.