I come from a poor part of Richmond VA. Groups like PE, X-Clan, Brand Nubian, BDP, Eric B. and Rakim, Run-DMC, De La, Stestsasonic, and other groups lyrics woke me up and hit me different because my mother couldn't afford cable! So I never really seen a lot of the videos that complimented these songs. Had no choice but to listen to the lyrics and fully embrace the movement that they were speaking back in the day that still applies to now! Love this thing called hip hop!
I love how he paid homage to Whodini. They are pioneers in Hip Hop and no one really talks about them. I still listen to their Back in Black album in 2020.
Back in the day radio played every type of hip-hop at the same time! In one day of listening to the radio you could easily hear PE, De La Soul,Slick Rick, EPMD, LL, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Biz all in the same day- man i miss the Golden Era 86-96!✅👊🏿🔥⚡️
I ordered the Deluxe Edition's of It Takes A Nation and Fear Of A Black Planet from Amazon and they sound better than ever. Who ever remastered the albums did a great job, plus they came with bonus tracks of rare remixes.
nation of million was not just an album it was education for black people about it history see different about white america i was 18 in DC went to the music store brought the album it education me about black america 4th july man made holiday government they were where the black panther left off that and n w a
@Jeff Roberts wtf you talking about dude it's nor about black and white i can care less about that bs. What I'm saying is alot of times vlad interview up and coming artists that can use his platform to get some shine. Chuck D don't need vlad to shine his music is legendary y'all internet trolls getting out of pocket with that black vs white nonsense. Truth be told if vlad asked some suspect questions I'm sure Chuck D would shut that shit down.
When I heard Rebel Without A Pause I knew they got their production skills together. That was in the fall of 87 I heard that record after my travels back from Europe. I remember seeing Public Enemy Merch out there.
I’m 24, my Dad showed me P.E. when I was really little and even then I had an ear for their music. You have to be really a hip-hop head to understand and take a liking to their music. I still like P.E. to this day and all my favorite rappers grew up listening to them. The problem is, today’s rappers don’t know nothin about that
PE was the blueprint for me of hip hop back when I first started to really get in to music, showed me the ways of the world and spoke knowledge and I was hooked ever since on PE/Hip Hop....... They don't make music like that anymore. My first album of theirs was Fear Of A Black Planet but after that I went back and got It Takes and the rest is history.
Bring The Noise is an amazing song: I’d bought the Less Than Zero soundtrack for the Danzig tune, and wow they nailed it....I had been waiting for these cats all my life. I’m so glad Chuck is talking now because MAN we needed him now.
Lord Jamar is heavily respected in this game. Chuck D just called him the king. Damn. I understand why Vlad got so close to him now. To Curry hiphop favor. LMAO We onto you Vlad.
Chuck D. is a god in hip hop... he doesn't get enough credit for his lyrical inventions... he was spittin' internals before that shit became a staple of complex rappin'. Other rappers were still end rhyming. Plus, his metaphors and concepts were out of this world. Chuck is a top 10 MC of all time. I don't care what nobody says. He's easily the most underrated lyricist next to Kool Keith and CL Smooth.
@K Jo "Fear of a Black Planet" was to "Nation of Millions" what "Midnight Marauders" was to "Low End Theory" for Tribe Called Quest. Possibly a better overall ALBUM but their predecessors were just sooooo monumental to the culture...
Not only is It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back one of the great hip hop albums of all time, it's one of the greatest albums of all time period! The songs on that album play in my head daily and we're talking about from 1988 to 2020!
I can't tell you how many arguments I've had on this. Agreed!! I love Nas and he's my favorite all time MC but Illmatic doesn't have a thing on It Takes A Nation of Millions...and I've debated that consistently because Illmatic is always mentioned as the GOAT hip hop album. It can't touch It Takes a Nation.
100 agreed. I have 2 albums as the greatest - it takes a nation and De la soul is dead. And ironically Prince Paul said he was inspired by it takes a nation
@@AbdulRashidYakubu no doubt. Both those classic works definitely ushered in the concept album era which is what/how classic hip hop albums are measured. Look at how every classic hip hop album was measured moving forward and especially in the 90s...it was based on what the standard those two albums set (skits, interludes, continuous song progressions, full album themes, etc).
@@AbdulRashidYakubu that's crazy family, cause I definitely would have went with 3ft high and rising. At least I can tell you know what you are talking about. I can respect that sir
Hold on tight cuhz. Because your whole musical perspective is about to change. The stuff you thought was dope before is more than likely gonna be thrown in the back seat!
I remember when the def jam tour came to Chicago. I wanted to be an S1W so bad. This interview is amazing, hearing everything that went into those legendary tunes. I remember their 1st time in Soul Train, watching with my homies from my military dorm room. Fist pumping and all. I would love to hear more from Chuck, about the social conscious, Afro centric aspect of Hip Hop, being silenced so soon,.in the early 90s. If NWA gets a bio film, where's Public Enemy's?
Chuck Ds the best. What a professor. & he got me into metal with bring the noise. Always felt I was learning something new listening. Also showed me theres really no rules to music just be creative.
FACTS...I've seen P.E every time they come close to cincinnati. Iwas in the mosh pit in bogarts with 100 white boys (no blood just love) CINCY STAND UP ...
I'Im 50 yrs old and without doubt public enemy woke a so called black English boy up to his history culture and the beginning of my search for identity. Without doubt the greatest group producing the most seminal albums. Hip hop begins and ends with P.E.
Been in NYC since I was born and been into hip-hop since I could remember, and Takes A Nation still holds up for me. #1 of all time, is The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick, but Takes A Nation is up there.
@@jknumber5138 Pshhh man I can't believe that's almost my 80's list right there. Only difference is for #4 I got Critical Beatdown. And for #5 it might be Eazy-Duz-It, but No One Can Do It Better is worthy of being on that list no doubt.
True story, my korean brother was 4 years older than me, and I was about 8, and he got me into rap in the mid 80s and Whodini was one of the first rappers I fell in love with.... "Five minutes to funk, this ain't no junk, so pull ya bottom off the tree stump, ladies are pretty, city to city, now we're getting down to the nitty gritty" Whew, I love that fkn shit..... also Freaks Come out Night, and then later LL Cool J came into the picture and til this day, I still love fkn hip hop!
@Jeff Roberts in UK we have Grime and Drill which are variations of hip hop. Westwood exposed us to USA hip hop with his show and his knowledge is deep. I'd like to know his history and story
Not only the most interviewed, but he gives the longest interviews lol. And best believe I listen to every minute. I think his interview on The Combat Jack Show was like 3 hours.
Westwood was the most influential person outside of the USA in hip hop history...I was there back in 88-90 when the dude bought the greatest mc’s and DJs from New York over to London.
Public Enemy will forever be a legendary group even though Chuck D.did most of the rapping but the hits that were on their albums are timeless. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.
For once I agree with Jamar. I will NEVER EVER EVER get sick of listening to It Takes a Nation. I grew up on that album. I played that album on my way to protest with BLM. Got me HYPED to protest racism and police brutality. Chuck D was my greatest teacher
I come from a poor part of Richmond VA. Groups like PE, X-Clan, Brand Nubian, BDP, Eric B. and Rakim, Run-DMC, De La, Stestsasonic, and other groups lyrics woke me up and hit me different because my mother couldn't afford cable! So I never really seen a lot of the videos that complimented these songs. Had no choice but to listen to the lyrics and fully embrace the movement that they were speaking back in the day that still applies to now! Love this thing called hip hop!
@fresh B absofuckinglutely
news flash:
the whole Richmond VA ( poor ! 😃 )
@@sonicmagnus5312 appreciate your ignorant ass commentary
I love how he paid homage to Whodini. They are pioneers in Hip Hop and no one really talks about them. I still listen to their Back in Black album in 2020.
They are always brought up. Two of the most played songs from that era are Friends and Five minutes of funk
I loved when Nas sampled the Friends beat for If I Ruled the World... and then Q-Tip took part of the hook from One Love for Nas' One Love.
Back when it was cool for brothers to rap about girls, heartbreak and not pretend to all be pimps and players.
@Pepe Lopez Hip hop is a lifestyle not a genre. 4 elements are forgotten .... Sad
@Pepe Lopez Hip hop is almost 50 years old. Why would you think that?
Back in the day radio played every type of hip-hop at the same time! In one day of listening to the radio you could easily hear PE, De La Soul,Slick Rick, EPMD, LL, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Biz all in the same day- man i miss the Golden Era 86-96!✅👊🏿🔥⚡️
Real talk!!!
1. Whodini massively underrated
Facts
5 minutes of funk
SHOGUN UNITED legendary track
Yup
You are correct, sir.
Rebel without a pause one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time!! That beat is 🔥🔥🔥
P. E. has at least 3 GOAT songs... Rebel Without a Pause, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos and Fight the Power
Kory Green facts!!!
Don't forget night of the living basehead, g.
@@KtotheG Welcome to the Terrordome
That's why we call him the hard rhymer 💪
Public Enema
-John Witherspoon. (RIP)😁🙏
Who the hell will get a public enema! lmbo
Shut up all that damn noise 🤣🤣 classic film.
😂😂😂😂
House party
That was classic when he said that. 💯✊🏽
Definitely one of the most Iconic hip hop albums of all time
Don’t Believe The Hype was that 🔥🔥🔥it sounded soooo different, noisy, knockin, funky...Chuck and Flav’s voices!!! Legendary👊🏾💯💯💯
“Stetsasonic was the first live hiphop band. I actually played the tambourine on their first 2 albums” Tk Kirkland
😂😂😂😂
The Roots before the Roots !
😂😂😂
I read that in TK's voice
🤣🤣🤣
100% agreement with Lord Jamar
💯
1k facts
Can't leave out, "Nice n Smooth"..unforgettable 1st and 2nd album's (I still have the cassette's).
I'm in full agreement with Lord Jamar. Public Enemy is my favorite group and Nation of Millions is my favorite album.
I ordered the Deluxe Edition's of It Takes A Nation and Fear Of A Black Planet from Amazon and they sound better than ever. Who ever remastered the albums did a great job, plus they came with bonus tracks of rare remixes.
nation of million was not just an album it was education for black people about it history see different about white america i was 18 in DC went to the music store brought the album it education me about black america 4th july man made holiday government they were where the black panther left off that and n w a
40 years later the album still banging
Chuck D flow is so underrated man. Surprised he's doing a interview with vlad.
@Jeff Roberts wtf you talking about dude it's nor about black and white i can care less about that bs. What I'm saying is alot of times vlad interview up and coming artists that can use his platform to get some shine. Chuck D don't need vlad to shine his music is legendary y'all internet trolls getting out of pocket with that black vs white nonsense. Truth be told if vlad asked some suspect questions I'm sure Chuck D would shut that shit down.
Mike D
GLAD offered him a baggg
Respect the Icon, Chuck D. I'm signed to his record label✊🏽
My favourite album of all time too. An absolute masterpiece.
Yes, was the start of my last jam, so here it is again, another def jam!!
When I heard Rebel Without A Pause I knew they got their production skills together. That was in the fall of 87 I heard that record after my travels back from Europe. I remember seeing Public Enemy Merch out there.
The 98 Posse.....
The Reason i got a 98 Oldsmobile!!!
Isn't the 98 a Lincoln continental?
@@IgotSomuchTroubleonmyMind 98 olds man......
@@SimusSays..... you right, b.
88 was the year all tha dope shit came out 💯👍
Chuck is the MAN! I could listen to him talk for HOURS...
Damn!!! To be on that tour bus as the history was being formulated...Priceless!!!!!!
I can listen to rap history from Chuck...all of the time.
I'm going to listen to Public Enemy right now, need to hear this history
Get ready for something special cuz
So what did you think?
@@RoninAliNowOn I love the music
@@juice9100 Word!
Nation of Millions changed my life forever!
It Takes A Nation of Millions is the greatest rap album of all time, PERIOD. ✊🏿♥️🖤💚
One of the first album I ever ODed on.
Absolutely!!!!
Chuck D is like a hip hop professor.
I used to wake up to that ALBUM and start my day listening to public enemy! LOVE IT!!!💪👍✌👌✊👊❣
Don’t believe the hype > all the rap song released since 2002
Chuck D sucks at rapping, basic 80s nursery rhyme type shit
@@ShotsMerkzAll I guess Rakim, Kane, Kool G Rap are nursery rappers also from the 80s?!?! 🤦🏽♂️
@@ShotsMerkzAll Of course Chuck had an 80s rap delivery, dumbass...that song came out IN THE 80s...lol
Rakim and Kool G are the GOATS better than any rapper now. Miles above chuck d
Heavily disagree but it's a good song
Chuck D low key looking like spike lee
@Darrell wow bro, wot a strong resemblance! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see it lol
I’m 24, my Dad showed me P.E. when I was really little and even then I had an ear for their music. You have to be really a hip-hop head to understand and take a liking to their music. I still like P.E. to this day and all my favorite rappers grew up listening to them. The problem is, today’s rappers don’t know nothin about that
Check out: RJ Payne, Eto, Skyzoo, Termanology, they all have new 🔥🔥🔥 out. Also Griselda, & Ruste Juxx.
R. Rivera will do! I’ve heard Benny the butcher , will have to peep the rest
This is the first time that Vlad sounded like a fan during an interview.
The 80's hip hop and early 90's were truly the best much respect for Public Enemy !!!
Summer of 98 I could vividly remember that He Got Game joint playin everytime I would turn to MTV
Likewise
"Bring The Noise", was dope because of the tempo and Funkadelic, was on the cut. "Get Off Your Ass and Jam".
PE was the blueprint for me of hip hop back when I first started to really get in to music, showed me the ways of the world and spoke knowledge and I was hooked ever since on PE/Hip Hop....... They don't make music like that anymore. My first album of theirs was Fear Of A Black Planet but after that I went back and got It Takes and the rest is history.
Chuck be repping them Bad Boyz good shit 💯
Respect to this guy! He knows history as he’s been thorough it.
I love how he questions Vladimir throughout his interviews with him. The teacher is in the building. 💯✊🏽
Fear of a black planet is my personal favourite public enemy album.
I truly fear a black planet...
Facts. Greatest group album ever imo
Mine too, that album is hard..... Start to finish it's a masterpiece.
Bring The Noise is an amazing song: I’d bought the Less Than Zero soundtrack for the Danzig tune, and wow they nailed it....I had been waiting for these cats all my life. I’m so glad Chuck is talking now because MAN we needed him now.
Lord Jamar is heavily respected in this game. Chuck D just called him the king. Damn. I understand why Vlad got so close to him now. To Curry hiphop favor. LMAO We onto you Vlad.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Vlad's in awe of Chuck!
Vlad surprised he cant get this brother to talk bad about other brothers. ALL the other brother he interview do it. Love this brother for NOT
Chuck D. is a god in hip hop... he doesn't get enough credit for his lyrical inventions... he was spittin' internals before that shit became a staple of complex rappin'. Other rappers were still end rhyming. Plus, his metaphors and concepts were out of this world. Chuck is a top 10 MC of all time. I don't care what nobody says. He's easily the most underrated lyricist next to Kool Keith and CL Smooth.
Rightly so
Legendary Chuck D your Top 5s Top 5 Facts!
That Detroit Pistion reference pure 🔥
The first Hip Hop song that I fell in love with,do to the extreme bass that comes out your speaker when u have it turned up loud is PE- shut em down
I personally believe Fear of a Black Planet was better but both super classics!!
I agree
I still have that Planet album on tape. Never heard it till this day. I still have no idea where it came from
True Facts!!
@K Jo "Fear of a Black Planet" was to "Nation of Millions" what "Midnight Marauders" was to "Low End Theory" for Tribe Called Quest. Possibly a better overall ALBUM but their predecessors were just sooooo monumental to the culture...
Incredible album that doesn’t get talked about nearly as much but Nation still edges it for me. The timing and urgency in that record was flawless.
EPMD, nuff said. Originators of the funk samples
Not only is It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back one of the great hip hop albums of all time, it's one of the greatest albums of all time period! The songs on that album play in my head daily and we're talking about from 1988 to 2020!
Yo Vlad, News Flash! Thats the greatest hip hop album ever made...ever!
I can't tell you how many arguments I've had on this. Agreed!! I love Nas and he's my favorite all time MC but Illmatic doesn't have a thing on It Takes A Nation of Millions...and I've debated that consistently because Illmatic is always mentioned as the GOAT hip hop album. It can't touch It Takes a Nation.
100 agreed. I have 2 albums as the greatest - it takes a nation and De la soul is dead. And ironically Prince Paul said he was inspired by it takes a nation
@@AbdulRashidYakubu no doubt. Both those classic works definitely ushered in the concept album era which is what/how classic hip hop albums are measured. Look at how every classic hip hop album was measured moving forward and especially in the 90s...it was based on what the standard those two albums set (skits, interludes, continuous song progressions, full album themes, etc).
@@AbdulRashidYakubu that's crazy family, cause I definitely would have went with 3ft high and rising. At least I can tell you know what you are talking about. I can respect that sir
@@Israel-nb7ip agreed but I think that is for sure a top ten if not top 5
Golden age hip hop over today's music. And I am only 25. 👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊
@Jay Boogie And your point is??????
@Jay Boogie You think you're a big man with all that trolling shit??
It’s my favorite rap album of all time .Matter of fact,it’s the greatest rap album of all time .
Chuck has THE most commanding voice in hip hop.
Chuck’s voice is like a brick wall. 12 years old, I first heard Can’t Truss It, and my life changed. ❤️😍😍😍
I was just playing Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos. That album is a classic
Burn Hollywood burn I smell a riot goin on😉
I run through this song in my head weekly. 🤜🏾💯‼️
I got black Cesar at the crib.
Been waiting to hear Chuck speak 💪🏽💯💯💯💞💞💞🥳🥳
I wasn't brought up on Public Enemy because it wasn't my era, but I'm definitely going back to hear these albums
Hold on tight cuhz. Because your whole musical perspective is about to change. The stuff you thought was dope before is more than likely gonna be thrown in the back seat!
@@majikman73 oh you just convincing me more to listen
PE kicks knowledge, school will be in session.
Black Steel is an Awesome track and the beat is Awesome as well , Salute to Terminator X for that beat....
ONE LOVELIFE% It’s so sick
🔥🔥🔥👍👍
One of my favorites
That's my favorite finna bump it right now
I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it.. they said they were Suckas!!!
"CLEAR THE WAY FOR THE PROPHETS OF RAGE" !!!!!! HEAR WHAT OUR PEOPLE SAY !!!
Harry Allen I had to ask him.. Are we that type? DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE.
Nations Of Millions is my #1
I remember when the def jam tour came to Chicago. I wanted to be an S1W so bad. This interview is amazing, hearing everything that went into those legendary tunes. I remember their 1st time in Soul Train, watching with my homies from my military dorm room. Fist pumping and all. I would love to hear more from Chuck, about the social conscious, Afro centric aspect of Hip Hop, being silenced so soon,.in the early 90s. If NWA gets a bio film, where's Public Enemy's?
Chuck Ds the best. What a professor. & he got me into metal with bring the noise. Always felt I was learning something new listening. Also showed me theres really no rules to music just be creative.
Chuck is so knowledgeable and humble
FACTS...I've seen P.E every time they come close to cincinnati. Iwas in the mosh pit in bogarts with 100 white boys (no blood just love) CINCY STAND UP ...
Lol 💯. The white boys brought the dope energy and would get real live at PE shows!!!
Cincinnati stand up!!!! Bogart's in Short Vine. Epic location
It takes a nation of millions IS the greatest hip-hop album of all time hands down
I'Im 50 yrs old and without doubt public enemy woke a so called black English boy up to his history culture and the beginning of my search for identity. Without doubt the greatest group producing the most seminal albums. Hip hop begins and ends with P.E.
Been in NYC since I was born and been into hip-hop since I could remember, and Takes A Nation still holds up for me.
#1 of all time, is The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick, but Takes A Nation is up there.
You talking 80s. Great Adventure is #1. 2 is Paid In Full. 3 Run DMC first joint from 1984. 4 Long Live the Kane. 5 is that D.O.C. album
@@jknumber5138 Pshhh man I can't believe that's almost my 80's list right there.
Only difference is for #4 I got Critical Beatdown. And for #5 it might be Eazy-Duz-It, but No One Can Do It Better is worthy of being on that list no doubt.
I love that song Bait from Critical Beat down
@@jknumber5138 Yeah yo, just Kool Keith alone is crazy. Still one of my favorite MCs
Welcome to the terrodome was my battle song. That shit there used to get me wildin.
Public enemy ,that's my ish!!
Powerful music 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍
Best album ever made
Such a humble guy chuck D....respect
Westwoods weekly top 10 hiphop tracks in NME magazine ruled the 80s...for real
And to my rescue it was a S1W my favorite line
BOMB SQUAD IN FULL EFFECT
Mine 2.I fell in love with PE when I heard the Rebal🤯
True story, my korean brother was 4 years older than me, and I was about 8, and he got me into rap in the mid 80s and Whodini was one of the first rappers I fell in love with.... "Five minutes to funk, this ain't no junk, so pull ya bottom off the tree stump, ladies are pretty, city to city, now we're getting down to the nitty gritty" Whew, I love that fkn shit..... also Freaks Come out Night, and then later LL Cool J came into the picture and til this day, I still love fkn hip hop!
Shout Out to Tim Westwood! I used to listen to his radio show on Saturdays in the UK in the early 2000s
Vlad should interview Tim Westwood. He carried hiphop in the UK for a long time Legend
@Jeff Roberts in UK we have Grime and Drill which are variations of hip hop. Westwood exposed us to USA hip hop with his show and his knowledge is deep. I'd like to know his history and story
Tim Westwood the legend
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME....PE did that!
Mine too. First rap album I bought with my own $.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Picture us cooling on the 4th of july and if you heard we was celebrating that's a world wide lie.
Don't support lil Wayne's new album. He feels he is to rich to care about police brutality.
Spread the word
I never liked lil Wayne to begin with
Fucking bull shit, race baiting clap trap. Stop your pandering nonsense. We blacks aren't oppressed, you are being played like a fool
Martin Ziegler yeah but he been lip kissing birdman his whole life so cut him a little slack
You not missing out dude fell off 😂💀💀💀
Nations Of Millions is in The Greatest Albums Ever Conversation. Regardless of genre. Rides from beginning to end.
I slept to that album every night for two months
Not only the most interviewed, but he gives the longest interviews lol. And best believe I listen to every minute. I think his interview on The Combat Jack Show was like 3 hours.
10:38 Public Enemy played in Erie.
Did you know,
that Damon re-did Chucks song ,No
& Chuck or TH-cam,
would not allow my comment
to stay posted ?
Nation of Millions is one of the greatest albums of all time, of any genre
Tim had all the pe and Ultramagnetic stuff
Some one just gave me like 3 CD fill of this dude shows..there all incredible mixes
Westwood was the most influential person outside of the USA in hip hop history...I was there back in 88-90 when the dude bought the greatest mc’s and DJs from New York over to London.
Public Enemy will forever be a legendary group even though Chuck D.did most of the rapping but the hits that were on their albums are timeless. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.
Whoudini definitely had bangers! I actually had to get their best of a few years ago!
The first time someone talks about music on vladtv. Vlad never bothered to ask anyone, "how did you come up with such and such song"
Yes hip hop album made , OVERALL, I say OFF THE WALL, MJ, bless
For once I agree with Jamar. I will NEVER EVER EVER get sick of listening to It Takes a Nation. I grew up on that album. I played that album on my way to protest with BLM. Got me HYPED to protest racism and police brutality. Chuck D was my greatest teacher
Hands down Nation is the best hip hop album of all times nothing comes close pound 4 pound beats,raps & impact the birth of hardcore
Bring the Noise was a game changer!!
Most powerful voice in rap ,nothing to do wirh the politics ,u know chuck d is on the mic,vocals are always on point
terminator x to the edge my fav off album
Definitely monumental