I was there! at their tour of the UK, I went to 1 at Brixton Academy October 88, also there was Derek B (RIP) Bad Young Brother, I was was 18 at time (turned 52 yesterday 😉) went in the concert a Run Dmc fan, came out of the place a fully fledged Public enemy no1, what a night
Samples: Marva Whitney - It’s My Thing 0:19 Funkadelic - Get Off Your A** and Jam Fantastic Freaks - Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie (Vocals) 0:54 James Brown - Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (Remix) 0:55 James Brown - Funky Drummer 1:12 The Soul Children - I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To (Vocals) 1:25 Audio Two - Top Billin’ (Lyrics) 1:49 James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved 2:48 Commodores - The Assembly Line 2:49
Brought nation of millions back in 88 when I was 14 (the album that took me away from the kiddie pop crap on the charts). Still sends a shiver down my spine when I listen to it. Amazing!
I was a teenage white Jewish refugee from USSR who barely spoke English when I bought this tape. I knew lyrics by heart before I even knew what the words meant. Run DMC, Beastie Boys, NWA, Ice Cube, Ice T, LL Cool J, Eric B Rakim, Dr. Dre - what a fucking epic time it was for Hip Hop! Still have my old tapes and love to listen every once in a while on my old-skoool ghetto blaster. Respekt from USSR! :-)
Growning up in the UK - PE were everything in the 80's, so glad they came over to London to spread the Noise! Their Brixton Academy set was mind blowing!
Growing in NYC, this is the song I heard that made me politically conscious for the first time (Summer 1987) and today in 2023 is the first time seeing the actual original video. Of course this was shown in London, UK because music videos of POLITICAL Rap was rarely played the the US until the early 1990s (if you were lucky to catch them on Video Music Box, Channel 31- very weak reception signals, but who cared?).
Guess you only pay attention to mainstream music bc Killer Mike & El-P most definitely reflected on the times we are living in on their latest album RTJ4
i saw this tour, the package with Eric B and ra, LL and PE, it was the best concert i witnessed- to be honest, LL was the hardest MC that time, and on stage he killed it completly: PE was on the verge of breaking out worldwide, it was just before it really was burstin out....still got the cassete tape and wore it out 100%, 80s was crazy and the BEST, never to be seen again- trust me.
Public Enemy was SO at the top of their game in '88. I literally worshiped these guys when I was a teenager, to me they REPRESENTED what was so great about Hip Hop culture and Rap music.
This music is so full of energy. So many things going on in the background. The way pe delivers the lyrics with the orchestra going on in the backround, simply beautiful. So much fucking SOUL
The original London park video! One of the directors, Dominic Savage, went on to become a BAFTA winning writer and director, he's done loads of TV dramas. But it started here with Public Enemy, yeah boiii!
One of the best nights of my life was seeing PE live performing this song in Perth Australia as well as just about every single one of their biggest tracks. Being right up front of the crowd and getting fist bumps from Chuck & Flav.
I'm a lecturer at a sound engineering college teaching music appreciation. I get to teach young African's about the History of Hip Hop. It's a highlight and honour to teach young Trap heads about the music that got me into producing beats.
Bro... I scrolled down and found this!! Popu _GTB 4 months ago (edited) Samples used in this song: Marva Whitney - It’s My Thing 0:19 Funkadelic - Get Off Your A** and Jam Fantastic Freaks - Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie (Vocals) 0:54 James Brown - Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (Remix) 0:55 James Brown - Funky Drummer 1:12 The Soul Children - I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To (Vocals) 1:25 Audio Two - Top Billin’ (Lyrics) 1:49 James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved 2:48 Commodores - The Assembly Line 2:49
when you have this much power and passion you don't need flashy visuals....people these days just don't get it.... they have a $10 song with a $1,000,000 video...
I had never seen this shyt before and it zoomed me all the way back to being a 14 year old with my Hitachi cassette tape box in my bedroom. What a superb year for hip hop 1988 was. Thanks so much for posting this!
Munich, Germany 1988. Concert with Derek B, Public Enemy and Run D.M.C.... I was 17 and in the audience were only white kids from Munich. Great memories!!!
"Bring the Noise" Public Enemy, brought me here. "Here we go again" continues to sound off in my head when it's time to shift a get and get moving on something. Like every morning getting my girls off to school, lol! I've periodically searched for it on TH-cam for over a decade and only now has it shown up.
Westwood »»»Str8 Trill»»» Keepin It Real.... He Made All MC's/mu·si·cian/poetry/ SHINE!!! All the way from PublicEnemy , Back Inda 80's!!!........Up to THIS YEAR 2021. Thank God All Blessings........
First rap album to ever go platinum. First rap world tour. First. Rap group to tour Japan. Let that sink in. Now we have mumbling for rap. We are going backwards.
J'étais au collège j'écoutais beaucoup de rap français, Ministère AMER, FABE, un jour en perm, un pion m'a filé la cassette de cet album en me disant" écoute ça c'est du vrai rap'' je ne sais pas comment le remercier aujourd'hui. Si tu me lis RESPECT.
When this came out the energy was bananas. I taped this song off the Red Alert show and the next day I played this outside and everybody wanted a copy. Played it 100 times till my battery died.
I was 17 years old living in Harrow borough NW London when I first heard this joint, can’t remember if it was before or after REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE...now aged 48 I still rank PE as the greatest band (NOT JUST HIP HOP BAND) but greatest band ever⏰🎤⏰🎤⏰🎤⏰🎤⏰🎧🎧🎧🎧
I remember growing up and having to sneak this music into the house, listening on headphones so my father wouldn’t get angry and throw the cassette tapes in the garbage. My mom though, was helping me out anyway she could. Not only did I listen to PE because of the mad beats and lyrics, they were teaching me things about Black History I was never taught in school. Thanks for the upload. Love and Respect from NYCity. 🤘👊
As a white kid in the UK, I learned so much from PE in the late 80's and early 90's. Listening to them, Ice-T and Run DMC has been a huge influence on how I see the world.
MY dad threw away my metal tapes once and I had to go dig them all out... I came to really like PE cuz their collab with Anthrax and we already liked Beastie Boys and NWA too!
The world loves Biggie and Tupac and it’s well deserved. But for me..., PE will always be the HipHop artist that stand above them all ! The vibe the voice the energy the message and the positive grind to uplift has no equal. Thank You PE✊🏾
awesome .....when i was a kid i didn't get the message ...but as a grown man ,,,they was ahead of there time ....civil rights activists in the form of rap .....Brilliant ....and today we have the likes oa a Trindad Jones ...smmfgdh.....shakingmymotherfuckinggotdamhead
Always will have respect for P.E. & what they brought forth to us raising our consciousness about who we are and standing up for justice! It's sad that other artist didn't pick up where they left off. I had the pleasure of meeting Chuck D & I will always cherish that moment. Much respect to KRS-1 as well.
I remember this classic tune well. Much respect to P.E. for making some unforgettable songs in the golden era of hip-hop. I heard that they struggled in the U.S. at the beginning but it goes to show how success often doesn’t come easy. True legends!!!
Never saw this in its entirety. The staccato style fits. I remember around the summer of 1988 I was driving and heard this song on the radio. I pulled my car to the side of the road to listen and said, "That's it, nobody needs to rap any more. This is like the Sgt. Pepper of rap. It can't possibly top this."
I was there! at their tour of the UK, I went to 1 at Brixton Academy October 88, also there was Derek B (RIP) Bad Young Brother, I was was 18 at time (turned 52 yesterday 😉) went in the concert a Run Dmc fan, came out of the place a fully fledged Public enemy no1, what a night
I can't overstate just how powerful Chuck's voice, & the whole sonic imprint of PE music was, back in the mid 80's.
"is", now and forever
yes😊
How does Chuck D not get mentioned as one of the best lyricists? Dude was crazy.
He is a Top Ten G.O.A.T. and this is for certain!!
Truth
He's the creator of the styles we hear today. His flow is what heavily influenced the pioneers of the triplet flow from the south.
He does
Number One for me
Samples:
Marva Whitney - It’s My Thing 0:19
Funkadelic - Get Off Your A** and Jam
Fantastic Freaks - Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie (Vocals) 0:54
James Brown - Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (Remix) 0:55
James Brown - Funky Drummer 1:12
The Soul Children - I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To (Vocals) 1:25
Audio Two - Top Billin’ (Lyrics) 1:49
James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved 2:48
Commodores - The Assembly Line 2:49
Terminator X
He's bad by his damn... self.
Great work pulling out those samples man 👍🏾
Thanks mate!
Brought nation of millions back in 88 when I was 14 (the album that took me away from the kiddie pop crap on the charts). Still sends a shiver down my spine when I listen to it. Amazing!
had the same effect on my when I was 14 too brother.
The most important Hip Hop group ever !!!! #salute
DOSEROCK DAILLEST Run-DMC?
DOSEROCK DAILLEST REAL TALK!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Woods Run dmc opened the door and chuck walked through
@@alexanderscott9001 Chuck kicked it in.
@@rolandplatt255 No doubt
As a metal head - I love the coord with Anthrax. Awesome. You guys rock!
Love the Respect between the two...
Check out the anthrax and public enemy version if you haven't already😅
I'm so blessed to have grown up in the 80s with this music #NYC #prolific
Yes
I also grew up in the 80s. Are you single? ;)
are you white
im white
austin mitts so what!
I was a teenage white Jewish refugee from USSR who barely spoke English when I bought this tape. I knew lyrics by heart before I even knew what the words meant. Run DMC, Beastie Boys, NWA, Ice Cube, Ice T, LL Cool J, Eric B Rakim, Dr. Dre - what a fucking epic time it was for Hip Hop! Still have my old tapes and love to listen every once in a while on my old-skoool ghetto blaster. Respekt from USSR! :-)
I'm so proud I was raised in the age before internet. So proud I grew up with Public Enemy blasting in my community 💪🏾
flava flav is the biggest hype man in the history of rap music, it gets no better
"DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE. DON'T. DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE"
This song is getting better years after years!
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back is a perfect rap album.
Growning up in the UK - PE were everything in the 80's, so glad they came over to London to spread the Noise! Their Brixton Academy set was mind blowing!
Growing in NYC, this is the song I heard that made me politically conscious for the first time (Summer 1987) and today in 2023 is the first time seeing the actual original video. Of course this was shown in London, UK because music videos of POLITICAL Rap was rarely played the the US until the early 1990s (if you were lucky to catch them on Video Music Box, Channel 31- very weak reception signals, but who cared?).
@@juniorjames7076 Thanks for the context, makes sense now. We were very lucky and proud to host them.
so lucky
Todays Hiphop Does NOT Reflect the Times we are living in....Respect to the Golden Era Mcs
Guess you only pay attention to mainstream music bc Killer Mike & El-P most definitely reflected on the times we are living in on their latest album RTJ4
@@niek8877 absolutely
Do you listen to Kendrick Lamar?
Thank you fam
Still gives me chills!
Still have the og tape.
Damn Tim Westwood has been down for ever!! I had no idea. Mad respect to Tim!
i saw this tour, the package with Eric B and ra, LL and PE, it was the best concert i witnessed- to be honest, LL was the hardest MC that time, and on stage he killed it completly: PE was on the verge of breaking out worldwide, it was just before it really was burstin out....still got the cassete tape and wore it out 100%, 80s was crazy and the BEST, never to be seen again- trust me.
This is some intricate sampling and the rhyming is on point with such a heavy message. The talent and artistry here is undeniable.
I’m 48 and I miss this music , today sound has nothing on this period .....
Public Enemy was SO at the top of their game in '88. I literally worshiped these guys when I was a teenager, to me they REPRESENTED what was so great about Hip Hop culture and Rap music.
PUBLIC ENEMY was what I lived 4. I was a Project Teen from the ATL. P.E. saved my life! 80s rap was untouchable! Peace 2 Chuck D.
This music is so full of energy. So many things going on in the background. The way pe delivers the lyrics with the orchestra going on in the backround, simply beautiful. So much fucking SOUL
definitely YES Sir!
Coming from a metal fan, this is very good. I wish more modern rappers were like this.
Then check out them joining Anthrax on the latter's Bring The Noise cover.
Listen to Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Joey Bada$$, Isaiah Rashad, Absoul, Noname, Mac Miller, Denzel Curry, Earl Sweatshirt, Logic, J.I.D, etc....
Christopher Marlowe ok well obviously you don’t know who any of those people are then
Christopher Marlowe lol
@@xo_breeee tokyo's revenge,jasiah tho
The original London park video! One of the directors, Dominic Savage, went on to become a BAFTA winning writer and director, he's done loads of TV dramas. But it started here with Public Enemy, yeah boiii!
One of the best nights of my life was seeing PE live performing this song in Perth Australia as well as just about every single one of their biggest tracks. Being right up front of the crowd and getting fist bumps from Chuck & Flav.
I'm a lecturer at a sound engineering college teaching music appreciation. I get to teach young African's about the History of Hip Hop. It's a highlight and honour to teach young Trap heads about the music that got me into producing beats.
Friends of Anthrax..respect !
One of the best rap vocals ever, Chuck D.
Damn TIm Westwood been around forever!
This was way ahead of its time
"time for me to exit, Terminator X it"...that was a crazy bar for 1987...chuck super underrated as a lyricist
that funky drummer part is fire🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
187 all day
Hear the Drummer get wicked.
Amen Brother! Find this video called "The Most Sampled Loop in Music History"
Go... right NOW!
Bro... I scrolled down and found this!!
Popu _GTB
4 months ago (edited)
Samples used in this song:
Marva Whitney - It’s My Thing 0:19
Funkadelic - Get Off Your A** and Jam
Fantastic Freaks - Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie (Vocals) 0:54
James Brown - Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (Remix) 0:55
James Brown - Funky Drummer 1:12
The Soul Children - I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To (Vocals) 1:25
Audio Two - Top Billin’ (Lyrics) 1:49
James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved 2:48
Commodores - The Assembly Line 2:49
I miss these days.
when you have this much power and passion you don't need flashy visuals....people these days just don't get it.... they have a $10 song with a $1,000,000 video...
Dallas Storey Completely agree!
Dallas Storey amen 🙌🏻
👍
Not even..... they sell shit in a can and still get paid....😨
@bobeagle007 k?
...back when hip hop had feeling and meaning
It still does.
Tim Westwood been about for centuries, his Mozart reviews are legendary
I had never seen this shyt before and it zoomed me all the way back to being a 14 year old with my Hitachi cassette tape box in my bedroom. What a superb year for hip hop 1988 was. Thanks so much for posting this!
Munich, Germany 1988. Concert with Derek B, Public Enemy and Run D.M.C.... I was 17 and in the audience were only white kids from Munich. Great memories!!!
"Bring the Noise" Public Enemy, brought me here.
"Here we go again" continues to sound off in my head when it's time to shift a get and get moving on something. Like every morning getting my girls off to school, lol!
I've periodically searched for it on TH-cam for over a decade and only now has it shown up.
Back again!! Now its April 2020 this jawn is still🔥🔥 HOT throwback!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥LEGENDS
This album was so prolific. The master recording should be stored at the Smithsonian
“Farrakhan’s a Prophet that I think ought to Listen to. What He can say to You…what You wanna do is follow for now" 🖤✊🏿 Words to Live by✊🏿
Westwood »»»Str8 Trill»»» Keepin It Real.... He Made All MC's/mu·si·cian/poetry/ SHINE!!! All the way from PublicEnemy , Back Inda 80's!!!........Up to THIS YEAR 2021. Thank God All Blessings........
FLAVA FLAV best hype man of all time!
Gente de zona
Imagine if Flava cooperate with Keith Flint (R I P) from The Prodigy
Flava Flav, Sen Dog, plus Freaky Tah are/were the 3 best hype men in hip hop history.
This gets me up on a weekday morning! 💃❤️
On "The Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list from "The Rolling Stone" magazine, this song was ranked number 397.
best rap album in history and there is Tim Westwood back in the day, dope lyrics nobody sounds better Chuck D when he be rapping lines
First rap album to ever go platinum. First rap world tour. First. Rap group to tour Japan. Let that sink in.
Now we have mumbling for rap. We are going backwards.
Exactly 💯
Bang on pal
Sad but so true
Well said
So many house/rave samples in just one song. That’s why I fell in love with house AND hip-hop back in the days....
Man this brings me allll the way back
J'étais au collège j'écoutais beaucoup de rap français, Ministère AMER, FABE, un jour en perm, un pion m'a filé la cassette de cet album en me disant" écoute ça c'est du vrai rap'' je ne sais pas comment le remercier aujourd'hui. Si tu me lis RESPECT.
NEVER GET OLD, BOYYYYYYYY
When this came out the energy was bananas. I taped this song off the Red Alert show and the next day I played this outside and everybody wanted a copy. Played it 100 times till my battery died.
Chuck D, with a DEEP VOICE, yet FAST, and FURIOUS FLOW! This should not be possible.
Legend!
Greetings from 2018,broz!!!!
This reminds of a time when I was proud of Rap Music...
its not technically rap, but hip hop.
Pure classical hip hop
yea this is some mozart shit
This is real hip-hop.
The KINGS !!!
Way better then todays rappers....
I was 17 years old living in Harrow borough NW London when I first heard this joint, can’t remember if it was before or after REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE...now aged 48 I still rank PE as the greatest band (NOT JUST HIP HOP BAND) but greatest band ever⏰🎤⏰🎤⏰🎤⏰🎤⏰🎧🎧🎧🎧
Im 48 now...Wow!! Great memories of my youth ❤
Tim Westwood in his early years, what an early adopter ! I love people like him who don't fake the love wherever they're coming from.
I remember growing up and having to sneak this music into the house, listening on headphones so my father wouldn’t get angry and throw the cassette tapes in the garbage. My mom though, was helping me out anyway she could. Not only did I listen to PE because of the mad beats and lyrics, they were teaching me things about Black History I was never taught in school. Thanks for the upload. Love and Respect from NYCity. 🤘👊
As a white kid in the UK, I learned so much from PE in the late 80's and early 90's. Listening to them, Ice-T and Run DMC has been a huge influence on how I see the world.
MY dad threw away my metal tapes once and I had to go dig them all out... I came to really like PE cuz their collab with Anthrax and we already liked Beastie Boys and NWA too!
🤣🤣my parents was the same way 🤦🏽♂️ I had to sneak and listen.
Look how young Tim Westwood was didn't know he's been doing this so long
The intersection of punk white kids and gangster black kids in the late eighties. I was right there and it was beautiful.
January 2023 and still jamming to this.
best hip hop 80's
I'm from Detroit and we use to get the New York station at night when I first heard this my mind went wild, chuck the prophet.
colbert hunter. professor griffa down ass vato firme leyenda strong island
Chuck D is the man...how many people realize the incredible rhythmic feat he's pulling in the 2nd verse? Triplets over a duple backbeat? Crazy good...
The world loves Biggie and Tupac and it’s well deserved. But for me..., PE will always be the HipHop artist that stand above them all ! The vibe the voice the energy the message and the positive grind to uplift has no equal. Thank You PE✊🏾
awesome .....when i was a kid i didn't get the message ...but as a grown man ,,,they was ahead of there time ....civil rights activists in the form of rap .....Brilliant ....and today we have the likes oa a Trindad Jones ...smmfgdh.....shakingmymotherfuckinggotdamhead
Hip hop needs P.E right now ASAP 1 of my fav groups of all time💪💪💪💯💯💯🎤🎶👊
I remember were I was when I first heard this. Been a fan ever since.
Always will have respect for P.E. & what they brought forth to us raising our consciousness about who we are and standing up for justice! It's sad that other artist didn't pick up where they left off. I had the pleasure of meeting Chuck D & I will always cherish that moment. Much respect to KRS-1 as well.
well chuck D is in a band called Prophets of Rage now with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Cypress Hill
Skullhammer98 Cool! I have to check them out. Thanks for the info. :)
America should’ve really listened to the message that Chuck D was promoting instead of spinning the narrative to “fit the description”
Reliving the PE days with my 12 yr old daughter!She loves it!!!
OMG.Back in OUR DAY,for those who remember-
✊🏿 I was at that concert. Bam bam. Hip hop at the beginning of its 10 year golden era. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
I remember this classic tune well. Much respect to P.E. for making some unforgettable songs in the golden era of hip-hop. I heard that they struggled in the U.S. at the beginning but it goes to show how success often doesn’t come easy. True legends!!!
I remember my older brother had the VHS tape of Public Enemy live and this video was on it.
What’s a VHS?
Real Hip Hop before year 2000 back when it was real 🎤📻
Sheesh Tim Westwood has been there from the beginning
My first hip hop album and still nothing beats it who's rapping powerful messages like this now ? Respect PE
The production team coupled with Chuck D is unmatched to this day. It was a great fit.
Great song and my intro to PE as a 13 year old Aussie kid. That third verse was absolute 🔥
Never saw this in its entirety. The staccato style fits. I remember around the summer of 1988 I was driving and heard this song on the radio. I pulled my car to the side of the road to listen and said, "That's it, nobody needs to rap any more. This is like the Sgt. Pepper of rap. It can't possibly top this."
so greatful to see them live.
Fun fact: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was Kurt's one of his favorite albums of all time.
Who is Kurt?
@@hilltophouse The guy that claimed he didn't own a gun.
Well, his list changed constantly
@@sexobscura Hes a music geek. Hes into alot of genres and I loved him for that.
Greatness!!!
5-0 said FREEZE. and I got Numb... hip hop history
That Funky Drummer break is legendary.
This hits home more today than never #blacklifesmatter
Public est le plus grand groupe de rap de tous les temps. Longue vie sur youtube. Francis 93
This could possibly be the best rap album ever
Cannot disagree
and one of the greatest in any Genre
"Corrupt like a senator!"_ Hmmmm, that says it all :(
Corrupt like Kurupt FM, boyeee.
People may now laugh at Tim Westwood but he was the main hip hop DJ back in the day
Bring the noise in 2023!!🎉
Damn Tim Westwood been around for a long time
Tim hasn't aged incredible