One of the greatest groups in history, not just hip hop but across all genres of music. PE were so important to a generation with the message they delivered.
One of those song where I remember where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It hit the radio before the album dropped and can distinctly remember being frozen in awe at what was blasting through the car speakers. PE made it clear they weren't going to fall off after It Takes a Nation of Millions despite the Grif turmoil, and when the song concluded I distinctly remember the dj saying "THEEEYRE BAAACK". To me arguably a top 10 beat in rap history as well.
@@ABoomerReacts Was also surprised at your description about the beat being "happy"😂This was always a sonic armageddon to me (with scratching and some clever sampling lol).
I never thought that this song would be described as upbeat, although it is uptempo. The first time I ever heard in was walking into a dark basketball pavilion with 4000 students. Definitely a tone setter, as it was for Mike Tyson.
The main best to this song is Psychedelic Shack Studio album by The Temptations. This song has about 10 samples in it. A few james brown cuts, Kool & the Gang, T.S. Monk etc.
Yes this is the hit when it came out. 1980s early 1990s were not profane. I remember the song due to the fact that Septa train accident when this song came out. New York City Burroughs made most of the rap the best. Some fun songs to escape madness is Kriss Kross " Jump" they were about 12 years old. LL Cool J I'm Bad hard but the lyrics are on point. Rap music in the,1980s was Alpha Male and he was able to do ,"I need Love" Whodini "Friends " or the "Freaks come out of night" LL Cool J featuring Boyz to Men "Hey Lover" Run-DMC the pioneers Peter Piper, King of Rock Walk this way featuring Aerosmith and it's Tricky. Eric B and Rakim "I got Soul" A hilarious hip hop song by Oran " juice" Jones. "The Rain"
Thanks for the suggestions, Nicole! Jump and I Know You Got Soul are already on my list and I added the others. I've heard Walk this Way and both of those Run DMC songs so I can't react to them.
@@ABoomerReacts How about Digital Planet "I 'm cool like that" Heavy D "Overweight lovers in the House", Digital Underground "The Humpty dance". Since it's Christmas time Run-DMC have a Christmas Song enjoy 😉
Night of the living Baseheads has one of the greatest HipHop videos ever made to go along with song that worth reacting to. That was my first HipHop video that caught my attention on Yo MTV raps on Thanksgiving day 1988 at my Grandmother house.😅 I thought the video was apart of show and commercial.
griff was demoted and eventually left the group i believe. there are a lot of wild theories about the jewish ppl and what they control its hard to decipher
"so called chosen/frozen" was a line that shook the room. Chuck D is NOT an antisemite. Anyone remember Michael Jackson's song in '95 "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics "Jew me sue me / kick me k!k3 me"? - the record company lost a fortune taking the albums off the record store shelves and replacing them with a censored version ... and that was the beginning of the end for MJ and the music biz The Jewish community and the LGBTQ community comprise about 2% of the country's population each but if any entertainer offends they can kiss their career goodbye. And this is the same entertainment industry selling records about n word n word and making movies in my lifetime where every black character is "I'm gonna go upside yo head you jive turkey" ... You can't step on the wrong foot and prosper. Chuck ran thru a minefield deftly and emerged unscathed.
Suggestion for conscious rap San Francisco hero and legend PARIS : break the grip of shame, escape from Babylon, the days of old, thinka 'bout it, the devil made me do it. And since he's west coast he has plenty of G funk tunes too (Guerilla Funk, etc...)
Here's a tidbit I think you'd especially find interesting: I'm sure you've noticed how rare it is for rappers to do cover songs of other rap songs. Well, Pharoahe Monch did a fantastic cover of this song. I can't remember if you've discovered him yet, but if I had to pick 1 artist to be named "Greatest Emcee of All Time", I'd choose Pharoahe Monch.
I've talked about him before in bios, but I haven't reacted to him yet. I have 4 songs by him on my list: Agent Orange, No Mercy, Oh No, and The Truth. Thoughts?
@@ABoomerReacts out of those options, definitely either Agent Orange or No Mercy or maaaaybe The Truth Agent Orange if you want to hear a clear and powerful message over a hard hitting beat. No Mercy if you want to hear his virtuosic mastery of cadence & flow over an epic cinematic beat Musically, The Truth is absolutely gorgeous imo (my favorite beat of the 4 options), and his world class lyricism is on full display, but he only gets 1 verse and I'm on the fence as to whether you'd enjoy his unorthodox delivery on this one Oh No is just the same Pharoahe song every single reaction channel seems to react to, and again, he only gets 1 verse At this point, someone might point out he only has 1 verse on "No Mercy" and fair enough, but he sets the mic on fire 🔥
It's interesting how certain decades have distinct "accents" or singing styles that everyone seems to adopt - for a parallel think of all those eighties disillusioned pop singer voices
He's kinda talking about the same thing Kanye is talking about today. Public enemy saved Def Jam which was run by Jews. The song is our purposefully abstract but he's saying they should not be cancelled because they don't agree with every Jew and that they also will not stop talking about issues faced by black people which is their first priority.
@@ABoomerReacts a lot of hip hop companies have Jews and gay people as owners, lawyers, accountants and management so to speak about them in any way is tricky. Especially for bands that feel they must give an honest narrative. Even commenting here I’m struggling. Also hip hop owes a lot to Jews sine they invested when other people wouldn’t. Def Jam is basically black talent with Jewish investors.
@@rotatopoti Comparing PE's message in this track to Kanye's insane and racist rants lately is a major disservice to PE. Tensions have always existed between different communities who co-exist with each other in the US. Not everybody is praising Nazis and defending police who murder Black men the way Kanye is though. PE definitely were not. This song is an expression of Chuck's personal inner turmoil over the Griff situation, but it left a lot open for discussion. In my opinion, discussions are closed once a person defends Nazis. Kanye is not well.
Nation of Millions, Fear, and Apocalypse 91 all delivered relentlessly. Highly recommend you try doing album reviews in that order sometime. Great reaction ✌🏽
The beat is uptempo, but I wouldn't call it happy. More like sonic armageddon. Chuck has explained this song differently in different interviews. At times he's said "the terrordome" represented the '90s and he was ushering in a decade he feared would be full of tension and turmoil. Other places he's said the terrordome was his mind and he was welcoming us to his inner thoughts. Both explanations makes sense.
Quite possibly THEE single most important group as related to the growth of the Hip Hop culture uncle Chuck[D] raised a lot of us. The bomb squad was the elite production crew at the time terminator. X was a great DJ and last, but definitely loud least flavor Flav the greatest hype man of all time.
Terminator X must have been a Phil Specter fan because this song is a total Hip Hop wall of sound. And no one spits like Chuck D. A voice as popular as any TV anchorman
It’s good that you researched the track first…most reaction videos don’t have too much Reaction lol there needs to be some context. Great video and group to introduce to a newbie if only for the conversations
When Public Enemy was at their peak many Hip Hop heads considered the genre’s Golden Era. That Professor Griff controversy was sort of the turning point for Hip Hop. The industry started planting seeds for a paradigm shift in favor of Gangsta Rap. Griff was heavily influenced by Dr. Khallid Muhammad who later removed his position in the Nation of Islam for some inflammatory statements he made about Jews & White South Africans during a speech at Kean College. Khallid Muhammad was also influence on Ice Cube following the break up of NWA.
Thanks, Maliki! You always have fun facts. Let me ask you something. If the Griff controversary was a turning point, why did the industry encourage gangsta rap? Because the antagonists would switch from Jews to their fellow black men?
@A Boomer Reacts that becomes a red pill conversation in regards to industry politics. Compiling with what a lot of Hip Hop artists have said over the years there's definitely a counterintelligence program in the music industry. Technically it started in the entertainment industry before Hip Hop.
@A Boomer Reacts I would like to add in reference to statements about Jews I believe there's a failure by certain Pro-Black activists make distinction within the Jewish Communities. Technically the issues the Black Community has isn't with the whole Jewish community. The real beef is with the Jews who adhere to a particular nationalistic ideology.
One of the greatest groups in history, not just hip hop but across all genres of music. PE were so important to a generation with the message they delivered.
This was one of Mike Tyson's walk out songs. Intimidated the hell out of his opponents.
This song is pure art. It belongs on a wall in the most prestigious museum.
Can we hang my thumbnail up, too? 😜😜
It can definitely do a VR. It is quite good. Great rendition of you.
One of those song where I remember where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It hit the radio before the album dropped and can distinctly remember being frozen in awe at what was blasting through the car speakers. PE made it clear they weren't going to fall off after It Takes a Nation of Millions despite the Grif turmoil, and when the song concluded I distinctly remember the dj saying "THEEEYRE BAAACK". To me arguably a top 10 beat in rap history as well.
Relentless beat. My favorite.
@@ABoomerReacts Was also surprised at your description about the beat being "happy"😂This was always a sonic armageddon to me (with scratching and some clever sampling lol).
@@dareal05 Up-tempo for such a serious song
As a kid I used to love hearing this joint in the van. So much going on in the production and the speakers .
Good acoustics!
I remember the first few times they played the video on Yo! MTV Raps it was only instrumental.
I only heard the lyrics when I bought the LP
Whaaat??
I never thought that this song would be described as upbeat, although it is uptempo. The first time I ever heard in was walking into a dark basketball pavilion with 4000 students. Definitely a tone setter, as it was for Mike Tyson.
Yes, "up-tempo" is the word I should have used. The beat was up-tempo which worked well with the heavy lyrics.
Public Enemy, awsome
Good to see you reacting to them once again 👍
I've liked everything I've heard from them so far.
@@ABoomerReacts
They are one of a kind 👌
The main best to this song is Psychedelic Shack
Studio album by The Temptations. This song has about 10 samples in it. A few james brown cuts, Kool & the Gang, T.S. Monk etc.
It blows my mind that people can hear a song and know that something in it would make a great sample.
Public Enemy and anthrax - Bring the Noise. Anthrax does the music, And Scott Ian from Anthrax does the last two verses of this Public Enemy track.
Is it on a PE album or an Anthrax album?
@@ABoomerReacts Both. It's on Anthrax - Attack of the Killer Bs and Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91 - The Enemy Strikes Black.
Thanks!@@wolfdesikan1766
@@ABoomerReacts I know a bunch of these cross genre collabs. 😁
Yes this is the hit when it came out. 1980s early 1990s were not profane. I remember the song due to the fact that Septa train accident when this song came out. New York City Burroughs made most of the rap the best. Some fun songs to escape madness is Kriss Kross " Jump" they were about 12 years old. LL Cool J I'm Bad hard but the lyrics are on point. Rap music in the,1980s was Alpha Male and he was able to do ,"I need Love" Whodini "Friends " or the "Freaks come out of night" LL Cool J featuring Boyz to Men "Hey Lover" Run-DMC the pioneers Peter Piper, King of Rock Walk this way featuring Aerosmith and it's Tricky. Eric B and Rakim "I got Soul" A hilarious hip hop song by Oran " juice" Jones. "The Rain"
Thanks for the suggestions, Nicole! Jump and I Know You Got Soul are already on my list and I added the others. I've heard Walk this Way and both of those Run DMC songs so I can't react to them.
@@ABoomerReacts How about Digital Planet "I 'm cool like that" Heavy D "Overweight lovers in the House", Digital Underground "The Humpty dance". Since it's Christmas time Run-DMC have a Christmas Song enjoy 😉
@@nicolebailey4426 Thanks, Nicole! I've heard the Humpty Dance but I'll add the others to my list.
you gotta do Public Enemy - "Night of the Living Baseheads" also "Shut'em Down" (Pete Rock remix)
Thanks! Both of those songs are on my list. Even the Pete Rock remix.
Night of the living Baseheads has one of the greatest HipHop videos ever made to go along with song that worth reacting to. That was my first HipHop video that caught my attention on Yo MTV raps on Thanksgiving day 1988 at my Grandmother house.😅 I thought the video was apart of show and commercial.
@@BornSavior555 Wow! Such a specific memory. It def had an effect on you.
@@ABoomerReacts the video was/is different and entertaining.
griff was demoted and eventually left the group i believe. there are a lot of wild theories about the jewish ppl and what they control its hard to decipher
"so called chosen/frozen" was a line that shook the room.
Chuck D is NOT an antisemite.
Anyone remember Michael Jackson's song in '95 "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics "Jew me sue me / kick me k!k3 me"? - the record company lost a fortune taking the albums off the record store shelves and replacing them with a censored version ... and that was the beginning of the end for MJ and the music biz
The Jewish community and the LGBTQ community comprise about 2% of the country's population each but if any entertainer offends they can kiss their career goodbye. And this is the same entertainment industry selling records about n word n word and making movies in my lifetime where every black character is "I'm gonna go upside yo head you jive turkey" ...
You can't step on the wrong foot and prosper. Chuck ran thru a minefield deftly and emerged unscathed.
There is definitely a double standard
Suggestion for conscious rap San Francisco hero and legend PARIS : break the grip of shame, escape from Babylon, the days of old, thinka 'bout it, the devil made me do it.
And since he's west coast he has plenty of G funk tunes too (Guerilla Funk, etc...)
I have The Days of Old and The Devil Made Me Do It on my list already; and I'll add the others. Thanks!
Public Enemy - Can't Truss It
Thanks! That song is def on my list.
Love PE! Highly recommend Fight the Power, Can’t Truss It, and Bring the Noise (ft Anthrax) if you check out more from them.
I can't react to Fight the Power because I've heard it before. But the other 2 are def on my list.
Here's a tidbit I think you'd especially find interesting: I'm sure you've noticed how rare it is for rappers to do cover songs of other rap songs. Well, Pharoahe Monch did a fantastic cover of this song. I can't remember if you've discovered him yet, but if I had to pick 1 artist to be named "Greatest Emcee of All Time", I'd choose Pharoahe Monch.
I've talked about him before in bios, but I haven't reacted to him yet. I have 4 songs by him on my list: Agent Orange, No Mercy, Oh No, and The Truth. Thoughts?
@@ABoomerReacts out of those options, definitely either Agent Orange or No Mercy or maaaaybe The Truth
Agent Orange if you want to hear a clear and powerful message over a hard hitting beat.
No Mercy if you want to hear his virtuosic mastery of cadence & flow over an epic cinematic beat
Musically, The Truth is absolutely gorgeous imo (my favorite beat of the 4 options), and his world class lyricism is on full display, but he only gets 1 verse and I'm on the fence as to whether you'd enjoy his unorthodox delivery on this one
Oh No is just the same Pharoahe song every single reaction channel seems to react to, and again, he only gets 1 verse
At this point, someone might point out he only has 1 verse on "No Mercy" and fair enough, but he sets the mic on fire 🔥
@@pickenchews As you describe them, No Mercy sounds good.
@@ABoomerReacts altho for you specifically, I'd probably recommend either Shine, Queens, or 3-2-1. Probably Shine.
@@pickenchews Wow, none of those songs are on my list. I'll add them now. Thanks!
Told the Rabs get off the rag .
It's interesting how certain decades have distinct "accents" or singing styles that everyone seems to adopt - for a parallel think of all those eighties disillusioned pop singer voices
Yes, some 80's pop songs had a distinct goth edge to them.
I don’t know what Chuck was talking about. I heard a rhyme salad.
He's kinda talking about the same thing Kanye is talking about today. Public enemy saved Def Jam which was run by Jews. The song is our purposefully abstract but he's saying they should not be cancelled because they don't agree with every Jew and that they also will not stop talking about issues faced by black people which is their first priority.
It was a delicious salad, though.
@@rotatopoti Are Jews and gays issues that black people face?
@@ABoomerReacts a lot of hip hop companies have Jews and gay people as owners, lawyers, accountants and management so to speak about them in any way is tricky. Especially for bands that feel they must give an honest narrative. Even commenting here I’m struggling. Also hip hop owes a lot to Jews sine they invested when other people wouldn’t. Def Jam is basically black talent with Jewish investors.
@@rotatopoti Comparing PE's message in this track to Kanye's insane and racist rants lately is a major disservice to PE. Tensions have always existed between different communities who co-exist with each other in the US. Not everybody is praising Nazis and defending police who murder Black men the way Kanye is though. PE definitely were not. This song is an expression of Chuck's personal inner turmoil over the Griff situation, but it left a lot open for discussion. In my opinion, discussions are closed once a person defends Nazis. Kanye is not well.
Hey boomer
Hey Curtis
Pe was the most important group of the error. They scare a lot of folks.. another great one is black steel in the hour of chaos0
Black Steel goes so hard.
I reacted to that song. I liked it, too.
Nation of Millions, Fear, and Apocalypse 91 all delivered relentlessly. Highly recommend you try doing album reviews in that order sometime. Great reaction ✌🏽
Thanks, Gary!
YO! Bum Rush The Show album - Public Enemy NO.1 & Raise The Roof are quality too 🏅
Yes! One of the greatest songs from one of the greatest and most important groups in Hip Hop EVER!
I haven't disliked any PE song I've reacted to so far.
This is the greatest rap song ever written because it means something
You gotta do KRS1 , Bri. You’ve pretty much hit all your marks . He is the epitome of “ Hip Hop “ in its human form
I've done a couple BDP songs and 1 solo KRS-One
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Was it Rapture?
@@smokezilla13. No. It was MCs Act.....
@@ABoomerReacts check out Rapture sound of the police when you get a chance. Now that you’re a big UA-cam celebrity lol. Stay blessed friend
@@smokezilla13. Celebrity? Thanks, but not even close. And those songs are on my list.
Public Enemy was sonically unique from any Hip Hop group thanks to Bomb Squad production hitting you from all sides
Chuck D has that MLK flow
The beat is uptempo, but I wouldn't call it happy. More like sonic armageddon. Chuck has explained this song differently in different interviews. At times he's said "the terrordome" represented the '90s and he was ushering in a decade he feared would be full of tension and turmoil. Other places he's said the terrordome was his mind and he was welcoming us to his inner thoughts. Both explanations makes sense.
And they could be the same thing explained differently.
Special request for Public Enemy "Fight The Power"........easily my favorite Public Enemy song.....LEGENDARY track......
Unfortunately I cannot react to that song because I've heard it before. It was one of those songs that was everywhere.
@@ABoomerReacts Respect
Quite possibly THEE single most important group as related to the growth of the Hip Hop culture uncle Chuck[D] raised a lot of us. The bomb squad was the elite production crew at the time terminator. X was a great DJ and last, but definitely loud least flavor Flav the greatest hype man of all time.
I totally forgot to say how much I appreciated Chuck D's rhymes and flow on this song.
@@ABoomerReacts his voice is super powerful and attention demanding . He rhymes with authority, and always has something to teach you.
Facts
Smokezilla, "raised a lot of us", I could not agree more! ✌🏽PE Raised and educated
This is why I truly appreciate your channel! This is all news to me about Griff. Granted, I was under 10 back then but still.
I love when something in the bio is news to you guys. It's all new to me so I don't know what's common knowledge or not.
Props for doing your research.
Thanks, Robby! Context really helps my reactions.
Produced by the Bomb Squad, a great production that used melodic noise. They also produced early Ice Cube tracks. Another solid reaction!
Thanks, Sherman!
They produced many songs that people would not believe like Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe.
Fear of a black planet album cover was them talking about Planet X or nibiru
My favorite song and my favorite artist. PE has a lot of great songs to react to Is love to see someone react to Catch The Thrown. .
Thanks! That's a new one for my list.
If you ever do PE "can't truss it" you gotta do the video bc the video will hit you more.
I like to hear the song first and then see the video. I don't want the video to influence me.
Ice T. made an interesting comment once......he said..." Jay-Z can fill up stadiums but Public Enemy can have them marching in the streets"🧐🤔👍
I like that. My reaction to Bring the Noise will post next month.
Legendary Group & the 💣 Squad production 🔥 some other bangers from PE (Shut Em down) (Terminator X to the edge of panic)
Thanks, Don! Both of those songs are on my list.
Terminator X must have been a Phil Specter fan because this song is a total Hip Hop wall of sound. And no one spits like Chuck D. A voice as popular as any TV anchorman
I've liked every PE song that I've reacted to.
Twista - Overdose
If you really want your mind blown.
Thanks, Maurice! I have 4 Twista songs on my list but not this one. I'll add it now.
It’s good that you researched the track first…most reaction videos don’t have too much Reaction lol there needs to be some context. Great video and group to introduce to a newbie if only for the conversations
Thank you! Context is key.
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Beat doesn't need to be happy. Nothing to be happy about
I agree the beat does not need to be happy. I expected it to not be happy. But it is to me.
you always seem to like
Scratching💽 so I'll recommend an oldie but Goodie...
L.L Cool J,
"Go Cut Creator"
🔥
(Cut Creator was L.L's
DJ)..
Thanks, Damon! That song is on my list but I'll put a * by it which means that I'll react to it sooner rather than later.
@@ABoomerReacts 👍🏽
& its
"Go Cut Creator Go"
typing too fast😆
@@damonjones1291 No worries. I knew what you meant.
Listen to terminator X featuring Chuck D
Thanks, Rodney. On my request list it says "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic". Is that the song you want?
@@ABoomerReacts According to the official PE book, DJ Johnny Juice Rosado did the scratching on that song.
When Public Enemy was at their peak many Hip Hop heads considered the genre’s Golden Era. That Professor Griff controversy was sort of the turning point for Hip Hop. The industry started planting seeds for a paradigm shift in favor of Gangsta Rap. Griff was heavily influenced by Dr. Khallid Muhammad who later removed his position in the Nation of Islam for some inflammatory statements he made about Jews & White South Africans during a speech at Kean College. Khallid Muhammad was also influence on Ice Cube following the break up of NWA.
Thanks, Maliki! You always have fun facts. Let me ask you something. If the Griff controversary was a turning point, why did the industry encourage gangsta rap? Because the antagonists would switch from Jews to their fellow black men?
@A Boomer Reacts that becomes a red pill conversation in regards to industry politics. Compiling with what a lot of Hip Hop artists have said over the years there's definitely a counterintelligence program in the music industry. Technically it started in the entertainment industry before Hip Hop.
@A Boomer Reacts I would like to add in reference to statements about Jews I believe there's a failure by certain Pro-Black activists make distinction within the Jewish Communities. Technically the issues the Black Community has isn't with the whole Jewish community. The real beef is with the Jews who adhere to a particular nationalistic ideology.
@@Maleek_Bae That's creepy