I am a 51 year old white man from England. Public enemy was the soundtrack to my life. I was homeless,abused etc but rap music kept me sane. It doesn't matter what colour you are, your soul will be good or bad.
way more relevant, as time goes on and little changes, truth songs such as these speak louder and louder. in the 80s and 90s PE was seen a militant and extreme...... now it seems like one of the lone voices talking about the same stuff African Americans have been saying for 400 years.
+Gerald Plays games. Is it of your opinion that the two groups were total opposites in their message or used different channels to convey the same message?
+Gerald Plays games. What I mean is: NWA told it's audience how life is in the ghettos, even glorified it at times. Public Enemy told the same story but taught about what needs to be done, to rise up and fight back.
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Greatest Rap group of all-time. Hands down! Lyrics was dope and the beats was straight funky. No cursing, B-words or N-words. Like Stevie Wonder was said I wish Those Days Could Come Back Again.
Every time I get on my laptop and start listening to Public Enemy I intend on listening to one or two songs but instead end up listening for hours. Damn, they that good..
Ok look i am 49 white and english.. when thks broke it was 88 and i was 14 ... Folk bang on about punk in the 1970s but THIS was mine, i loved The Cure Prince INXS U2 but from the off PEade me LISTEN to storoes of blavk histoey and struggles, great beats BUT educational. I would do my paper round everyday with this album on the walkman. Great times, thank you Chuck Thank you flava
And people thought fake media was a new thing, these guys were calling out false media BS long before it became a thing. I miss this kind of hip hop, powerful , positive with a strong message ❤️
Saw PE in 88, one of the greatest concerts ever. EPMD, Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, PE and headliner Run DMC. You'll never see a concert like that ever again.
President Jeb Bush Not that night, but I wish they would have been. Might have been the greatest concert ever. Cause it was already my favorite of all time, then again, I had backstage passes.
+Old School Vids OMG that's my dream :o EPMD PE and Run DMC (i don't listen much to them but they're still big legends of rap) and i love Fresh Prince's and Jazzy Jeff's Summertime
Not just young generation. My parents were inna a car and this came on and they switched it. They dont even wanna hear the message. They believe the hype 😭😭
Glad i grew up in this era, because Public Enemy had me strive to become a Computer Scientist/Physicist... There lyrics made me the man i am today... I feel so sorry for the kids today with their music...
Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me you see, and Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps. Both of those are so powerful in 1989 America, and still today.
@@dwightlove3704 My most favorite quote of all times "Don't believe the hype" applies more today than any other times the media is off the hook they stay lying don't even care about truth or journalism it's all about click bait now 🤦🏾♀️
@@ShadowBannedit MALCOLM X said this years ago in the '60s about the media they can make you look like negative or positive.Jackie Robinson saw this as well during his baseball career.When he started speaking out against the umpires and opposing players the media labeled him as a troublemaker.When he kept quiet they sung his praises as a great player.
Prophets...glad I grew up listening to them. Went to a concert in 89, mixed crowd of gangstas, surfers and metal heads and not a single fight. Everyone even did a little moshing.
This record sends out a very very strong message ! Yo don't believe the hype do your research not just going on the internet E is all entertainment full of media bull iish you have to do your research by experience & observation !
RAQUAAHWA TheCodedtestament I agree a life time achievement award is long overdue to Chuck D and flava flav for contributing towards the music industry.
Hmm Wonder why🤔 I feel u tho it's crazy only dumb down Bs "music" gets air play n anything with a message like PE u have to go n search for they want the masses to remain under control 😣 n anytime something gets hyped up on radio or TV I always remember "don't believe the hype" ✊🏾
This is the rap or hip hop song that we want. No single profanity word used in the lyrics , the mouth-watering beats , energetic showmanship and lyrical terms that express the topic about racial , murdered peoples , war and other social challenging in our daily lives.
As media chokes us more and more everyday this becomes ever more so relevant!
They all devils
Chuck D- Greatest voice in Hip Hop
Flava Flav- Greatest Hype man ever
Flavor flav
This is real hip hop.Not this funny new rap.🎉❤
I am a 51 year old white man from England. Public enemy was the soundtrack to my life. I was homeless,abused etc but rap music kept me sane. It doesn't matter what colour you are, your soul will be good or bad.
One of the greatest Hip Hop songs ever written
I think so.
@@Mookaron True Dat.
Can't argue
Spitting straight facts
The voice of POWER 💪🏽✊🏽
This song is just as relevant today as it ever was. Probably even more relevant.
way more relevant, as time goes on and little changes, truth songs such as these speak louder and louder. in the 80s and 90s PE was seen a militant and extreme...... now it seems like one of the lone voices talking about the same stuff African Americans have been saying for 400 years.
I agree
So relevant. Our culture is even more about hype than ever before.
yeah aint it!!! ghaghahaha
AS LONG AS WE ARE BOMBARDED WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCIES WE WILL EXPERIENCE "FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS"
If hip hop had an anthem it would be this one. One of the most important songs ever done, period.
Eduardo in Norway 4 years late but anyway..... This and Fight the Power!!!!
U bet
yes
POLITICS TOO
Yes it is but Ame don't smell the coffee
It's like a vintage wine; it just gets better with age.
I remember the song when I was a kid, It still has something to say and i'm 42 😊❤
Same here, first rap song I remember liking
This was the golden era off hip-hop when everybody wasnt copying one another
Had a lot of meaning back then and more meaning now
Today as well
Now, this aged like fine wine
😂
Trumps new rally song
@@markusa5521 They would smack you for this comment lmao this song was inspired by Noam Chompsky
@@francisguyman3819 amazing philosophy and psychology. Chuck D.
Lo l l8
Ll8⁸⁸@@francisguyman3819
This is still relevant to this day 😊
This was when hip hop had a REAL message!!
This just ages so well.❤
2024 and still relevant as it was in 1988. Good music never dies.
Yes❤
Classic rap
this song is fire
Best revolutionary hip-hop group ever!!!
public enemy is better than nwa
True but i like a tribe called quest better but thats just me
+Gerald Plays games. Is it of your opinion that the two groups were total opposites in their message or used different channels to convey the same message?
+Gerald Plays games. What I mean is: NWA told it's audience how life is in the ghettos, even glorified it at times. Public Enemy told the same story but taught about what needs to be done, to rise up and fight back.
Gerald Plays games. No not even
I was 12 years old and of course i love this
Yeah chuck is hard asf underrated fr…
@@ronaldervin2001 ✝️👊
NWA get all the hype. Public Enemy have got my respect.
Great Respect to the real old school
Chuck d's voice and message is powerful
Don't Believe the Hype - message of this decade ⏰ 💣 🌙
Multiple decades 😄
They need to do a movie on them like they did one on NWA.
Tru story!!!
Like yesterday!!
I agree
Oh fo sure
Flav putting the clock around his neck for the first time needs to be a thing
33 years later I can still quote every lyric from this masterpiece…impact, poetry, necessity - “used abused without clues I refuse to blow a fuse”
Don’ rhyme for the sake of Rhyddlin’,
they even had me on the news
For real
Flavor flav said they must be on the pipe right? Like his ass wasn't on it too 😂
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Greatest Rap group of all-time. Hands down! Lyrics was dope and the beats was straight funky. No cursing, B-words or N-words. Like Stevie Wonder was said I wish Those Days Could Come Back Again.
FACTS!!
2024 ....this is real hip-hop
This is the kind of Rap music that needs to be making a comeback
Wednesday April 10th 2024===Hello and good day to you ladies and gentlemen watching this video 📸📷📸📷 Saying hello from Chicago Illinois USA 🆗
Every time I get on my laptop and start listening to Public Enemy I intend on listening to one or two songs but instead end up listening for hours. Damn, they that good..
2024 still kicking ass, they ain't even trying to pretend now.
Ok look i am 49 white and english.. when thks broke it was 88 and i was 14 ... Folk bang on about punk in the 1970s but THIS was mine, i loved The Cure Prince INXS U2 but from the off PEade me LISTEN to storoes of blavk histoey and struggles, great beats BUT educational.
I would do my paper round everyday with this album on the walkman. Great times, thank you Chuck Thank you flava
59 white and from New York-- still love it after 35+ years
This never stops being relevant
sadly
true
Because it went to commercial
Blair Johnson unfortunately
They talked about false media back then.. :O
Chuck D Most underrated MC of All Time
CIA had a file on him😂
Rapping along with the song, word 4 word!
Public Enemy, BDP, A tribe called quest, Eric B and Rakim, De la Soul. Golden age of Hip Hop. I still listen to this stuff, classic
And people thought fake media was a new thing, these guys were calling out false media BS long before it became a thing. I miss this kind of hip hop, powerful , positive with a strong message ❤️
Don’t believe the hype
PE...Hip Hop's best rap group!!!
@@henrymeyer5214 very good point 😊
@@dadigitechman I feel the same way about Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys.
Ideology is not fake
2022 !!! Yeah Boye !Still know "Dont Belive the Hype" Yeaaahhhh !!! 🔥
Dont Believe the hype 2024....
Kicking it Live..
Saw PE in 88, one of the greatest concerts ever. EPMD, Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, PE and headliner Run DMC. You'll never see a concert like that ever again.
+Soldier 4Life Damn, that sounds like a hell of a show. Not much I wouldn't give to see that.
Weren't the beastie boys on that?
President Jeb Bush
Not that night, but I wish they would have been. Might have been the greatest concert ever. Cause it was already my favorite of all time, then again, I had backstage passes.
+Soldier 4Life I asked because a cousin of mine went to a concert with PE, beastie boys and Cool j. He said that shit was crazy.
+Old School Vids OMG that's my dream :o EPMD PE and Run DMC (i don't listen much to them but they're still big legends of rap) and i love Fresh Prince's and Jazzy Jeff's Summertime
This ain't mumble rap. Real hiphop. We want people to hear and understand the message.
cornball comment
@@saintkeys only for a soft loser with no skills like yourself.
I was afraid of this day coming…
@@saintkeysOng bro 💀
Message, what message?
And 30 years later this song is STILL relevant in todays world.
The game doesn't change ... just the players.
Yep. And after going through 2020, even more so now….
Nothing but the division r3mains
This album. Captured the tone of that time. 1989. Anger. Awakening. Awareness.
DON’T BEILIVE THE HYPE OOOAAAAAAAAA
Now this younger generation really needs to take lessons. This is true Hip Hop. When rap actually meant something.
💚💚...i guess but, WE ALL KNOW THESE GUYS ARE THE BEST.
If you believe that there isn't rap that means something now, it's because you're not listening to enough new music.
th-cam.com/video/bVGb3lAYliM/w-d-xo.html hip hop will always have meaning when the right people are on the mic
Not just young generation. My parents were inna a car and this came on and they switched it. They dont even wanna hear the message. They believe the hype 😭😭
Exactly
Public Enemy and Vevo - two words that surely dont belong together.
LOL! :D True! :D
hahaa
Technically, that's three words
RICHARD GRANNON SPARTANLIFECOACH so right!
four if you count 'and'
Beat goes hard flav best hype man ever
I was SEARCHING for this comment
Yes of course the message is the most important thing but the beat is knocking
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LEGENDARY CHUCK D!!!!
One word - classic!
Glad i grew up in this era, because Public Enemy had me strive to become a Computer Scientist/Physicist... There lyrics made me the man i am today... I feel so sorry for the kids today with their music...
word🎼🎵🎶🎶
DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA ‼️ 🍉🍉🍉
Time passes and it's still as good as when it came out.
Always relevant. Intelligent lyrics you can hear.
From the late 80's...true pioneers
"I don't rhyme for the sake of riddling" - in my opinion should be voted best hip hop verse ever
I'll second that
Word!
Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me you see,
and
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps.
Both of those are so powerful in 1989 America, and still today.
pensarefare planet earth... was my place of birth!!!!
pensarefare i like the whopper fuck the big mac!
Call me old fashion or stuck in the past but this is what I will always listen to, I grew up in the golden era of hip hop ,just pure lyricist.💯✊
This year
Myself I grew up bumpimg that type of music still do
ONE OF THE BADDEST GROUPS EVER-FBI'S MOST WANTED
Old school rap will always be #1 till the day I die
Like Kurtis Blow or Sugarhill gang?
It's not old. The rap could play today.
FA SHO
THEY DIDN'T GET RAPED (CULTURALLY)
@@pompeymeowth6379 yes also
Spoonie Gee and the Treacherous Three - New Rap Language
Brother D - How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?
All black women are not H's, B's
All black people are not drug addicts
Don't believe the hype
Trumps new rally song
This is the best black rapper ever in my opinion. No question.too many rappers don't have it. But Chuck D just has it
Bacc when brothas CARED ABOUT BEING RIGHTEOUS!!!!!! Look @ NOW
They are under the control of these crooked music industry executives!!!!!
Cared about one another
@@dwightlove3704 My most favorite quote of all times "Don't believe the hype" applies more today than any other times the media is off the hook they stay lying don't even care about truth or journalism it's all about click bait now 🤦🏾♀️
@@ShadowBannedit MALCOLM X said this years ago in the '60s about the media they can make you look like negative or positive.Jackie Robinson saw this as well during his baseball career.When he started speaking out against the umpires and opposing players the media labeled him as a troublemaker.When he kept quiet they sung his praises as a great player.
John Leon The music industry is to blame for the downfall of Hip Hop.
I STILL don't believe the hype.
28 yrs old and it's more actual nowadays than it was at it's release.
FiasaPower yesss👏👏👏
FiasaPower Sadly
#FLOURPOWER
Actually it was for perfect for back then...nothing new under the Sun young bro...same shit now just more exposure
Seriously! I wish a band or a solo artist would be courageous enough to pull off something similar to this now.
One of the best rap acts of all time, ❤ public enemy!!
1988 - BEST HIP HOP YEAR - EVER !!!!!
No year in hip-hop has been more powerful than this one. It was like opening Christmas gifts every week back then.
WellyWonder1 No spaces I between punctuation
1992 was pretty good also.
Sorry, 1991
WellyWonder1 public enemy
"I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin' "
That's a cold line right there.
I thought it was ritalin
@@moosefactorymullet lol hahaha
Yes sir!
We went to see Captain Kurtike a jerk and we all out of work.. What crazy. Yes sir
@@moosefactorymullet Ritalin is nothing but legalized speed.
gotta be one of the best groups of all time
I love Flava Flav's special dance at the corner of the stage with his hands
❤❤❤❤
@@gladyscross956 a true 👍 artist..?..?
THEY SAID IT BEST SOAK IT UP THIS IS REAL MUSIC
Public Enemy was just damn good...real hip pop at its finest.
+Wooden Tombstone *hop
No such thing as real hip hop
Eh call it what you want...
+Devout Tim Duncan Fan Account Sure there is.
TRUTH! GEEE.
Prophets...glad I grew up listening to them. Went to a concert in 89, mixed crowd of gangstas, surfers and metal heads and not a single fight. Everyone even did a little moshing.
Don't let them divide us. It isn't about black vs white, it is us vs them. Don't believe the hype!
Trumps new rally song
It's 2022 and I'm STILL not believin' the hype!
These songs are way too ahead of their time and still relevant, imagine if they were mainstream today.
It would have to much of a positive impact to be main stream. Kids wouldn’t be stuck in this prison death cycle
They were on time then and they are in time now that's sad . We gotta get to work!!
owen keighley Preach it, brother ✊🏿
@@undergroundsound6020 r
They aren't ahead of they're time at all, they came right on time - it's just a shame it still applies today
"The minute they see me, fear me, I'm the epitome, a Public Enemy..." - few understood
White ppl feared them
@dwightlove3704 and then Weezer went on to use that line in Pinkerton
@@dwightlove3704 - Racists feared them....................
Chuck D. is a master
Here in 2024! Whiteboy from Texas! Saw PE in 1991 on a LSD trip that was an amazing experience. Don’t believe the Hype!!!
LOL
2021 anyone?? This is classic hip hop, “Don’t believe the hype!”🙅🏽bluuuuuuahhaaaa🙅🏽
bluuuuuuaaahhhaaaa
Hell ya! 21 until 2080! Public Enemy is pure legendary
@@itwontcomeout5678 😭, it sounds like that, or it’s huyyyyyppppe?😭
Yes, booming and bouncing on public enemy in 2021, freedom to all from holland
Im here mate Chuck D pure raooer
Hearing live instruments being played makes you appreciate the talent that went into making it touch the soul.
This is a group right here Chuck d and flavor Flav don't believe the hype that's what's up boy boy boy
Whole album was str8 🔥
No guest artist to sell the record just pure Hip Hop!!
One of the greatest rap songs of all time!
Brilliant old school hardcore hiphop
This record sends out a very very strong message ! Yo don't believe the hype do your research not just going on the internet E is all entertainment full of media bull iish you have to do your research by experience & observation !
Chuck don't get enough recognition for his contributions to the game OR as a Pioneer.
+Harden Thicke Nas isn't dead?
***** I know.
RAQUAAHWA TheCodedtestament I agree a life time achievement award is long overdue to Chuck D and flava flav for contributing towards the music industry.
You just gave him recognition...
Hmm Wonder why🤔
I feel u tho it's crazy only dumb down Bs "music" gets air play n anything with a message like PE u have to go n search for they want the masses to remain under control 😣 n anytime something gets hyped up on radio or TV I always remember "don't believe the hype" ✊🏾
funny how a song from the 80s still applies to everything happening in 2016 lmao
80s is not that long ago
laabitres
why "lmao"?
It's sad, really.
ElvenMan yes it was lol
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
More like sad
they actualy ask them to be a rap group and now you have the best rap group ever made AAAAAA!!!!!!
CLASSIC!!! One of the greatest tracks of any genre!!!! Timeless, powerful music that will live for eternity!!!💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌✊✊
this song is a masterpiece and treasure
"I don't rhyme for the sake of riddling" - in my opinion should be voted best hip hop verse ever
Still hitting hard in 2019...
So its not Ritalin a drug for ADHD.
The pure and raw energy alone makes this 10 out of 10
This beat is STILL pumping. Play it on a system and it knocks
Shout out to the Boom Squad
Blessed
Still loving this song in 2023 from London ❤❤❤❤
2024 as I'm listening to the hype over h1n1 coming around. Do one Mr gov
The one and only Chuck D....Flavor Flav a legend....
This is the rap or hip hop song that we want. No single profanity word used in the lyrics , the mouth-watering beats , energetic showmanship and lyrical terms that express the topic about racial , murdered peoples , war and other social challenging in our daily lives.
This is the hypebeast kryptonite
2024! Still Jammin
Still jamming to this BANGER IN 2022🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍