Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)

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  • Опубліковано 1 лип 2020
  • REMASTERED IN HD!
    Official Music Video for Fight The Power performed by Public Enemy.
    “Fight the Power” served as the theme for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and is featured on Public Enemy’s 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 8 тис.

  • @keepinitreal1373
    @keepinitreal1373 19 днів тому +79

    Now this is REAL rap, they were not sellouts!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @jaimesmith2266
    @jaimesmith2266 8 місяців тому +1045

    This is the absolute definition of true hip hop public enemy truly stood for something.

    • @lebonmarchandhernandezhern545
      @lebonmarchandhernandezhern545 7 місяців тому +7

      THATS WHAT UR MOMMA SAID DUDE

    • @robg4472
      @robg4472 6 місяців тому +4

      That flavour flave really fought the power didn’t he…

    • @jaimesmith2266
      @jaimesmith2266 6 місяців тому +3

      @@lebonmarchandhernandezhern545 What you mean 🤔

    • @N355-Smash
      @N355-Smash 5 місяців тому

      Maybe they meant later in his career? ua-cam.com/video/gEfD0UNHCYo/v-deo.html @@jaimesmith2266

    • @tuulafai4046
      @tuulafai4046 5 місяців тому +1

      Yup

  • @chukwuemekeojeah4326
    @chukwuemekeojeah4326 Місяць тому +127

    Chuck D one of the most underrated rated rappers of all time

  • @Ty-wy9he
    @Ty-wy9he 3 місяці тому +218

    Can’t believe this was 35 years ago! Hip hop will never be like this again.

    • @xbigwormx2041
      @xbigwormx2041 2 місяці тому

      Sad but true. Today rap is straight garbage 🗑💩🤮💩🖕👎. I wish I can go back to the 1980's and early 90's and just leave me.

    • @sonsofthetribe
      @sonsofthetribe 2 місяці тому +4

      Hold my beer

    • @PetsNLuv
      @PetsNLuv 2 місяці тому +4

      So sad

    • @coconuthead8484
      @coconuthead8484 Місяць тому +1

      I know it got way better 😊

    • @GogaPartizan
      @GogaPartizan Місяць тому +8

      It will be again when people will understand what FIGHT THE POWER really means today

  • @joselynjolivet7694
    @joselynjolivet7694 11 місяців тому +403

    Chuck D was no sell out. He stood for something and today he still stands for something. He didn't view rap as a commodity to be sold (commercialize). It was his manner of expression, an artwork.

    • @txmetalhead82xk
      @txmetalhead82xk 5 місяців тому +21

      Man of integrity.

    • @MothGirl007
      @MothGirl007 3 місяці тому +13

      He's awesome.

    • @julianjv7325
      @julianjv7325 3 місяці тому +9

      Yes, he never sold out.

    • @depthchargebetty3813
      @depthchargebetty3813 3 місяці тому +7

      Mr Chuck D hosted a fantastic limited series about The Clash a few years back. Highly recommended.
      He’s as punk as it gets and I’m glad he used his voice to raise awareness for others.
      You’re a punk rock warlord, sir. A life well lived.

    • @Bunny-Verse
      @Bunny-Verse 3 місяці тому +4

      Even by the time they got to Arizona

  • @erca1740
    @erca1740 Місяць тому +69

    Year April 2024.. Who ist with me?

  • @rogerdeschenes6749
    @rogerdeschenes6749 2 місяці тому +59

    One of the greatest protest anthems in any genre of all time. Perfect combination of lyric rhyme and sound.

  • @stevenmaritz759
    @stevenmaritz759 21 день тому +52

    This song is more relevant now than ever before

  • @deniscamdzic9601
    @deniscamdzic9601 3 роки тому +4410

    This right here is one of the reasons why the record labels and music industry pushed gangsta rap to the forefront. They couldn't allow the trend to keep moving in this direction, but we have to bring it back. Fight the powers that be!

    • @kingproduction6816
      @kingproduction6816 3 роки тому +55

      Denis Camdzic your right

    • @kingproduction6816
      @kingproduction6816 3 роки тому +37

      Yeah Correct

    • @MYDAILYHABIT-Publishing
      @MYDAILYHABIT-Publishing 3 роки тому +172

      I remember when the change came in, no disrespect to Gangsta rap ( which had already exsisted in forms ) but the industry latched on hard and messages like PE, X Clan, and many others got drowned out quick.

    • @kingproduction6816
      @kingproduction6816 3 роки тому +9

      @@RiveTheRat Thanks Man , I will check Run the Jewels

    • @mallman9374
      @mallman9374 3 роки тому +22

      Yeah, this has been one of my favorites on UA-cam for years, when it had multiple millions of hits, but now less than a million.
      What's up with that?

  • @youngtone00
    @youngtone00 3 роки тому +5522

    That's my generation right there. My generation wasn't ready for this message but the seed was planted.

    • @jovitasimmons8041
      @jovitasimmons8041 3 роки тому +139

      Absolutely.... They had me tears when they preformed on BET.

    • @lance11zenithoftheparamoun80
      @lance11zenithoftheparamoun80 3 роки тому +57

      Come On With It.

    • @daisychainmilk
      @daisychainmilk 3 роки тому +102

      This generation got it!

    • @subzeroconscious7817
      @subzeroconscious7817 3 роки тому +105

      Bro Chuck D gave me my 1st level of consciousness! Fear of a Black Planet 1 of the best albums ever made. I use to listen to it twice a day. I was a young boy but the message was clear!!

    • @katetaylor797
      @katetaylor797 3 роки тому +21

      @@subzeroconscious7817 - Same.

  • @taviswhite6279
    @taviswhite6279 Місяць тому +29

    When it comes to cultural impact, Public Enemy stands above the rest.

  • @coldwar1977
    @coldwar1977 Місяць тому +40

    Damn, still gives me the chills. RIP to important music like this.

  • @cynthiabeeko7985
    @cynthiabeeko7985 10 місяців тому +509

    This track still gets me the same way it did as a teenager. This was hip hop at its finest when it was about education in entertainment (‘edutainment’). Public Enemy showed me as a kid that knowledge is power so I studied and became a lawyer. Thank you Chuck D.

    • @iamjustishype3859
      @iamjustishype3859 9 місяців тому +5

      Exactly 💯

    • @iamjustishype3859
      @iamjustishype3859 9 місяців тому +9

      Wow kudos to you. I'm in law school now

    • @vaaccount8412
      @vaaccount8412 7 місяців тому +8

      I love the idea of a lawyer with a pair of oversized headphones on his lunch break blasting this lmao

    • @noorakaikkonen6422
      @noorakaikkonen6422 6 місяців тому +3

      sounds like my story, though I wasn't involved in rap culture.

    • @stuartcarney1527
      @stuartcarney1527 5 місяців тому +3

      Awesome - Inspiration is where you find it.

  • @thehand1358
    @thehand1358 5 місяців тому +58

    I miss intellectual hip-hop like this ❤

    • @breeze_japanese
      @breeze_japanese 3 дні тому

      The market doesn't want you to think. Just consume and reproduce.

  • @mmartin5579
    @mmartin5579 8 місяців тому +143

    Always Do The Right Thing!

  • @user-zd7ox7ej7v
    @user-zd7ox7ej7v 15 днів тому +16

    I’m 23 showing that not all kids of this generation is clueless…. I grew up on this group

  • @IntergalacticSpaceKitten
    @IntergalacticSpaceKitten 3 роки тому +2508

    Chuck D is one of those who have the coolest natural voices in hip-hop.

    • @notmebutyou8350
      @notmebutyou8350 3 роки тому +18

      For real!! Smooth as a mofo!!

    • @elylew
      @elylew 3 роки тому +31

      Word em up on the level / the reasons are several / most of ‘em federal

    • @primovid
      @primovid 3 роки тому +34

      Soooo true. I love just listening to his voice in this song. It's deep and smooth but he was pretty young.

    • @drstephenbond1585
      @drstephenbond1585 3 роки тому +26

      And he made rap relevant as he preaches the truth!

    • @nicolebailey4426
      @nicolebailey4426 3 роки тому +34

      Chuck D voice is underrated he sounds like if God took the mic and was rapping

  • @bodacious4398
    @bodacious4398 Рік тому +551

    Public enemy will always be one of the greatest rap groups of all time.

    • @jstohler
      @jstohler Рік тому +10

      Sadly, Gen Z has no idea who they are.

    • @jerome5ify
      @jerome5ify Рік тому

      yeah the greatest racist anti-white group, and who bought their music ?: white people

    • @dwightlove3704
      @dwightlove3704 Рік тому +10

      @@jstohler It's up to us to tell everyone about them

    • @simpledj509chromo7
      @simpledj509chromo7 10 місяців тому +3

      @@dwightlove3704 And introduce them to the new kids on the block carrying this sound on. We can't replicate Chuck D and the dozens of others that defined this era, but we can spread the word amongst the young kids and let them hear what rap should sound like. In my area we had Macklemore, Grynch, Knowmads, and many more repping the 206 (aka Seattle).

    • @dwightlove3704
      @dwightlove3704 10 місяців тому

      @@simpledj509chromo7 Macklemore is apart of the RAINBOW COALITION pushing that SAME SEX GARBAGE that affects the Black Community today.He had a song called SAME LOVE THANKS BUT NO THANKS.

  • @user-gj4nn4lm4m
    @user-gj4nn4lm4m Місяць тому +42

    The new generation,better get ready for this because history is repeating👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿 right before us.👊🏿👊🏿

  • @robertbranner1726
    @robertbranner1726 3 місяці тому +78

    This is TRUE HIP HOP👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

    • @georgeburkhardt5632
      @georgeburkhardt5632 Місяць тому +2

      Yes, RUN DMC, LL COOL J ,PUBLIC ENEMY Will always be the BEST EVER

  • @mightyraccoon7155
    @mightyraccoon7155 3 роки тому +3871

    This song will never get old.

  • @nvi808
    @nvi808 3 роки тому +1769

    this is more relevant than ever right now.
    public enemy is one of the best hip hop groups of all time!

  • @SUZUMAYBACHI
    @SUZUMAYBACHI 7 місяців тому +64

    THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO RAP, .. BECAUSE THE MESSAGE IS IN THE BEAT,🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @kearlanventures
    @kearlanventures 3 місяці тому +18

    Chuck hits so hard, but Flav drives it home. What a duo!

  • @augustalchemy6835
    @augustalchemy6835 Рік тому +85

    The Elvis bar is the most ruthless bar in American Hip Hip History!

    • @tiffysimm7346
      @tiffysimm7346 3 місяці тому +1

      Facts!

    • @Doone-iq8kx
      @Doone-iq8kx 3 місяці тому +8

      ​@@tiffysimm7346BB King and James brown said Elvis wasn't racist, I'll take their words over some random guy, who never even met him, talking about him in a song 11 years after his death.
      Chuck D 😂 he even said later "Elvis was a door, a gateway through to the roots. In the beginning of his career Elvis admitted where the roots came from, but did anybody care?"

    • @MitchClement-il6iq
      @MitchClement-il6iq 3 місяці тому +2

      Elvis wasn't like that, he even took few lessons from bruce Lee.... but john Wayne is a different story

    • @RW77777777
      @RW77777777 3 місяці тому +1

      you don't know what ruthless is if you didn't notice the line about 'Don't worry, Be happy' being the #1 jam

    • @Wheresthelove7
      @Wheresthelove7 12 днів тому +1

      Chuck D has since rescinded what he said about Elvis.

  • @deniscamdzic9601
    @deniscamdzic9601 3 роки тому +521

    Chuck D is a national hero, legend, and treasure. We need to make sure he receives his recognition while he's still on this planet.

    • @seanharris2320
      @seanharris2320 3 роки тому +9

      HE needs to appear on a stamp!
      According to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, he was in on the decision to release Janet Jackson's "That's The Way Love Goes" as the first (?) single from that album. I only bring it up to show that Chuck D has a reach beyond what most of us even have an idea about!

    • @hippiecolleen1352
      @hippiecolleen1352 3 роки тому +5

      WORD

    • @whyimarko
      @whyimarko 3 роки тому +3

      while he still on this Black Planet! saw em in London in '87 - best gig I've ever been to.

    • @TH33QUALIZ3R
      @TH33QUALIZ3R 3 роки тому +2

      'International' hero! 💓

    • @NormAppleton
      @NormAppleton 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed

  • @BayandaMelody
    @BayandaMelody 4 дні тому +4

    True hip hop not the stuff they feeding us today

  • @morpheus622
    @morpheus622 9 місяців тому +28

    Public Enemy warned us but noooooo
    Today this track is more relevant than ever. Fight The Power ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

    • @melaninking199
      @melaninking199 8 днів тому +1

      X Clan did to as well. We need more this!!!👍🏾👍🏾

  • @michaelford6100
    @michaelford6100 Рік тому +471

    "Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps" is the best lyric in the history of pop music.

    • @jstohler
      @jstohler Рік тому +13

      Either that or "Margaret Thatcher, tell her clear the way for the Prophets of Rage."

    • @thomasbrunn4182
      @thomasbrunn4182 Рік тому +1

      yea there in jail for life some power

    • @dwightlove3704
      @dwightlove3704 Рік тому +20

      I personally like the line about ELVIS

    • @wattaura7621
      @wattaura7621 Рік тому +11

      ​@@dwightlove3704 "the sucka was simple and plane"

    • @dwightlove3704
      @dwightlove3704 Рік тому +5

      @@wattaura7621 Then FF sealed the deal

  • @davidsaylor6151
    @davidsaylor6151 Рік тому +662

    Chuck D had the hardest hitting lyrics of any rap group. They were real and raw.

  • @tyreejosey7094
    @tyreejosey7094 9 місяців тому +49

    THIS WAS THE BIGGEST HIP HOP SONG IN HISTORY

  • @AlastairCroxton-fd6tv
    @AlastairCroxton-fd6tv 9 днів тому +4

    Do you ever notice that the eighties was better than the 21st century has ever been?

  • @raidermaxx2324
    @raidermaxx2324 2 роки тому +1028

    this song STILL gives me chills, almost 30 years later...

    • @blagamuffin
      @blagamuffin 2 роки тому +7

      Same!

    • @marklewen9384
      @marklewen9384 2 роки тому +13

      The best rap group EVER....

    • @DJLukk4
      @DJLukk4 2 роки тому +14

      Wym almost it’s been 32 years

    • @fyiibeenfly89
      @fyiibeenfly89 2 роки тому +2

      LMAO right!!! I was born in '89 so you know ik... 🤣🤣🤣

    • @NickPortlow
      @NickPortlow 2 роки тому +3

      It came out in 1989, so it's been 33 years now...

  • @joshalleng8495
    @joshalleng8495 2 роки тому +594

    One of the most important rap groups of all time . Their message is still prevalent today

    • @timujin1000
      @timujin1000 2 роки тому +14

      THE most important hip hop group of ALL time

    • @kevc21
      @kevc21 2 роки тому +3

      @@timujin1000 Broken glass, everywhere.... Those boys came first.

    • @johnsealy733
      @johnsealy733 2 роки тому +5

      Important Group of all time, fixed that for you 👍

    • @realness1997
      @realness1997 2 роки тому +7

      Don't forget KRS-1.

    • @yolandaflowers8606
      @yolandaflowers8606 2 роки тому +2

      Indeed

  • @iamjustishype3859
    @iamjustishype3859 9 місяців тому +145

    This is making me a shed tear. Hip Hop really could've freed us if it was untampered with. What a powerful music. Look people standing together in Brooklyn mind you this is in the middle of the crack era

    • @kingsittystudios2400
      @kingsittystudios2400 7 місяців тому +14

      on malcolm x boulevard, alot my freinds were in the video. i lived aound the corner from PE studio .seen them all my life.

    • @TheRealMsBlu
      @TheRealMsBlu 7 місяців тому +6

      I feel the same way smh

    • @txmetalhead82xk
      @txmetalhead82xk 5 місяців тому +5

      Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia, New York. It’s a beautiful thing to behold.

    • @jiovanysoltero923
      @jiovanysoltero923 3 місяці тому +2

      Now it’s every young man for themselves and backstabbing each other by ratting or killing, no more solidarity

    • @qqw743
      @qqw743 Місяць тому

      Well, let's not get too excited. People were standing together because Spike Lee's film crew put them there.

  • @RigidRecords69
    @RigidRecords69 Місяць тому +10

    It's a tragedy that PE is lost on today's hip-hop youth.

  • @Katwoman4318
    @Katwoman4318 Рік тому +225

    “When the power of love, overcomes the love of power. The world will know peace.”-Jimi Hendrix

    • @bubu345
      @bubu345 11 місяців тому

      Piss onto you for burning your own guitar 😮

    • @txmetalhead82xk
      @txmetalhead82xk 5 місяців тому +2

      Heavy!

    • @saluteyoursnorts
      @saluteyoursnorts 5 місяців тому

      What about the Flavor of Love

    • @user-sw2qs9og2u
      @user-sw2qs9og2u 4 місяці тому

      Well that will never happen because everyone is racist towards white people now

    • @sunshineandstarlight
      @sunshineandstarlight 4 місяці тому

      Won’t. Peace isn’t Making anybody any money.

  • @adamgregory9198
    @adamgregory9198 2 роки тому +155

    God damn; Public Enemy was years ahead of their peers and Chuck D’s lyrics are criminally underrated.

    • @phlegmbuoyant
      @phlegmbuoyant 3 місяці тому

      No need to curse God to get your point across, yo 😉✌🏽🕊️❣️
      But much Love for your TRUTH

  • @TheShanegrila
    @TheShanegrila 8 місяців тому +75

    Today's kids need this more than ever.

    • @RogerAxford
      @RogerAxford 2 місяці тому +2

      Lol it's like katt Williams said it's weird when a guy in a clock makes sense.

    • @RodriguezJuanJose
      @RodriguezJuanJose 2 місяці тому

      Now 🙏🙏

    • @Nik0_07
      @Nik0_07 Місяць тому

      Nahhhh you ain't cap man fr

  • @dedHESHr
    @dedHESHr 2 місяці тому +13

    As a skateboard kid in the 80s and 90s I loved hip hop punk rock and metal. It was all the same thing to us.

  • @lashaunwilliams2864
    @lashaunwilliams2864 Рік тому +199

    35 years later and that Elvis line still gets me just as hyped as it did when I was a teenager.

    • @dwightlove3704
      @dwightlove3704 10 місяців тому +27

      The lie still persis that he was the driving force behind the success of Rock Music.I saw the movie about Presley and he stated that he was not the king of this genre of music and he said that FATS DOMINO was the KING OF ROCK MUSIC.

    • @buahburke9912
      @buahburke9912 10 місяців тому +1

      And yet they're aligned with Google and all the mofo free speech crushin' Afro baby jabbin' $$$ milkin' depopulation freaks slippin' bribes under the table, don't even play blind like the rest

    • @fightinglynxxsurvival
      @fightinglynxxsurvival 10 місяців тому

      ❤️🤣

    • @mariomesenarias4218
      @mariomesenarias4218 10 місяців тому +12

      I still believe he was kinda racist..

    • @lashaunwilliams2864
      @lashaunwilliams2864 10 місяців тому +6

      @@mariomesenarias4218 Who? Elvis?

  • @cactusjack2264
    @cactusjack2264 3 роки тому +153

    Surprised nobody mentioned Radio Raheem or the classic “Do The Right Thing”

    • @Prinks3414
      @Prinks3414 2 роки тому

      I just thought of that. I also feel bad for Smiley.

    • @bongobang77
      @bongobang77 2 роки тому +1

      @@Prinks3414 Nah fuck Smiley. Literally starting shit for no reason. No shit an italian restaurant is gonna show italian people on the wall. Get over it.

    • @MikeHunt-qc7ou
      @MikeHunt-qc7ou 2 роки тому +2

      @@bongobang77 wrong person

    • @Prinks3414
      @Prinks3414 2 роки тому +1

      @@bongobang77 Smiley was the disabled guy

    • @tedlauren2690
      @tedlauren2690 2 роки тому +1

      @@bongobang77 lmao wrong guy

  • @Afro-Cinema-mu5xf
    @Afro-Cinema-mu5xf 12 днів тому +5

    Fun Fact: this song actually helped freed Africans from European Colonialism.

  • @O_U_Aint_Right
    @O_U_Aint_Right 2 місяці тому +15

    This generation needs to listen up... Seriously GenX make these lil ones listen up.. I ain't from Brooklyn but the message from Brooklyn was /is loud an clear...

  • @keiththomas478
    @keiththomas478 3 роки тому +709

    Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🧨

    • @juanelorriaga2840
      @juanelorriaga2840 3 роки тому +14

      I love that line

    • @kevyster
      @kevyster 3 роки тому +3

      Why does Chuck D and PE want Margaret Sanger on a stamp for her eugenics KKK Planned Parenthood so badly?

    • @nomad155
      @nomad155 3 роки тому +5

      @@kevyster where you hear this?

    • @jacobholley6181
      @jacobholley6181 3 роки тому +5

      skee magee that’s how they get you by spreading so much bs misinformation, too the point where your arguing about Gay Frogs and 5g is Melting your Brain Cells if they had any to begin with, and then claim the white media which is white lol is the one spreading fake news.... well duh that’s has always been the case and the black communities have know this.

    • @docnu5757
      @docnu5757 3 роки тому +2

      @keith I was singing that when i bought a sheet of Hip-Hop stamps last month. With a great big smile on my face.

  • @adventureswithphil2560
    @adventureswithphil2560 3 роки тому +308

    I was a kid when I heard this for the first time. I didn't understand. I sure as hell do, now. This is as relevant now as it was the day it dropped.

    • @latenitehour
      @latenitehour 3 роки тому

      Adventures With Phil 🤔You tell me I was 11 when this came out!!

    • @tiffanyj6841
      @tiffanyj6841 3 роки тому

      Hello welcome eyes open

    • @danaolsongaming
      @danaolsongaming 3 роки тому

      Isn't that the sad part though?

    • @darrellappling9276
      @darrellappling9276 2 роки тому

      Chuck D got the best Voice ever he best rap

  • @TheLiquidChicken69
    @TheLiquidChicken69 2 місяці тому +16

    The greatest hip hop song and one of, if not the greatest songs ever recorded

    • @davidbonillajr9959
      @davidbonillajr9959 Місяць тому +2

      They were legendary.There was nothing like them at the time....

  • @BarryTaylor-xk5vy
    @BarryTaylor-xk5vy 6 місяців тому +32

    If you don't stand for something
    You'll fall for anything!

  • @katinamoede892
    @katinamoede892 2 роки тому +310

    I'm enrolled Native American & we fight the power every day And this song & shows gave me courage to fight the power which I still do. 💯✔️❤️

    • @sallylauper8222
      @sallylauper8222 Рік тому +15

      No you don't. :)

    • @jameshawk8745
      @jameshawk8745 Рік тому +5

      Lmfaoooo

    • @TheAdvencherContinues2022
      @TheAdvencherContinues2022 Рік тому +11

      I hear ya from Ohio. I met a young girl from a reservation and she was traumatized. I hear ya. I also had a pal that tried to city manage a small town in Nebraska and they were so racist. Now I live in Southern Chile and the Mapuche are still fighting the power.

    • @raidermaxx2324
      @raidermaxx2324 Рік тому +8

      what does "enrolled" native american mean?

    • @zrHer
      @zrHer Рік тому +5

      @@sallylauper8222 Yes we do Sally!

  • @WLA-General
    @WLA-General Рік тому +99

    We desperately need this vibe back.

  • @ScreamingBanchie
    @ScreamingBanchie 3 місяці тому +3

    the people need to unite like this again.

  • @NickBarnes-zv7ke
    @NickBarnes-zv7ke 7 місяців тому +4

    This is when black people made. Love being black. Please black people stand up together

  • @yahspoetyahu-thepoeticword7322
    @yahspoetyahu-thepoeticword7322 2 роки тому +301

    Man these guys carried the spirit of the Black Panther Party!!! Public Enemy is one of the most legendary hip-hop bands of all time!!!

    • @RapFanatic4ever
      @RapFanatic4ever Рік тому +5

      Yes they are

    • @adriver7978
      @adriver7978 Рік тому +9

      Amen. My adopted dad was a panther. This song, the respect shown to my Pop. I cry every time I see this. Pop was in the Desire standoff. Fight the Power indeed.

    • @phlegmbuoyant
      @phlegmbuoyant 3 місяці тому

      AMEN 🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🙌🏿🤟🏼🤟🏻👌🏾👌🏻👌🏽
      Viva Las Panteras Negras de Tucson !!
      {Long Live The Black Panthers of Tucson}
      Amphi Panteras Tenants Empowerment Association!

    • @igorivanov299
      @igorivanov299 3 місяці тому

      Fuck the panthers

    • @99alfailiwaqain51
      @99alfailiwaqain51 2 місяці тому +1

      As Salaam Alaikum! No they carried the spirit of the F.O.I. & The Nation of Islam. Public Enemy is my family . Those drills are NOI inspired; because we drill and have been doing military drills since 1932! The F.O.I. Is a military like any other military. Professor Griff is a registered FOI as are 4 other members of the S1W’s. Do the knowledge and look and you’ll see many FOI in the video in charge of the security at the rally. Peep all the bow ties and suit/with boots. Please give the Nation of Islam credit where credit is due! Lastly many members and leaders of the BPP were
      once also registered in the N.O.I. ..Huey Newton, Clarke
      Bobby Seale, Stokley, etc all used to attend the Temple; in Oakland, Ca. in the early 60’s.

  • @jayhendo2261
    @jayhendo2261 3 роки тому +380

    "Power to the people No delay" ✊🏿

  • @monicachuidian-riveracalderon
    @monicachuidian-riveracalderon 3 місяці тому +20

    Public Enemy stood for something, that's why I am still a fan today! 😊❤❤❤

  • @prettypetals1
    @prettypetals1 12 днів тому +7

    I LOVE my people and I say that with ALL of my chest!

  • @jaliz2000
    @jaliz2000 3 роки тому +357

    This needs to be played right now , at every protest, in every organization. This is TRUTH.

    • @jonhanson6128
      @jonhanson6128 3 роки тому +1

      Not what the song was about . sad as a white guy i know why the song came about

    • @jaliz2000
      @jaliz2000 3 роки тому +1

      @@jonhanson6128 know exactly why Chuck D wrote it. Did you catch the reference to Malcolm X "swinging while I'm singing"?

    • @Sergatx
      @Sergatx 3 роки тому +4

      Except the protest that went on were supported by the powers that be and they didn’t even know it.

    • @kimmitchell1692
      @kimmitchell1692 3 роки тому

      Word em up

    • @dannybx78
      @dannybx78 3 роки тому

      100% TRUTH

  • @tlamax7769
    @tlamax7769 2 роки тому +229

    One of the most important songs in rap history!

    • @NateS917
      @NateS917 Рік тому +1

      ​@Augusto Pinochet broken record

    • @gaila.9852
      @gaila.9852 Рік тому

      @Augusto Pinochet No, you know nothing.

    • @gaila.9852
      @gaila.9852 Рік тому +1

      @Augusto Pinochet Thank you for proving my point.

    • @corneliaculler9568
      @corneliaculler9568 Рік тому

      @@augustopinochet5346 Says a loser with his head in the sand. There has been systemic racism in this country going back to 1619, the Black Codes, Jim Crowe, etc. This song never gets old.

    • @thomasbrunn4182
      @thomasbrunn4182 Рік тому

      ha if your racist

  • @ahayahshouse5344
    @ahayahshouse5344 5 місяців тому +6

    The real "BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM."

  • @_isaacrashad
    @_isaacrashad 5 місяців тому +29

    In all seriousness, this is literally one of the greatest music videos ever made bro

    • @jefferyyepez8546
      @jefferyyepez8546 5 місяців тому

      what about NWA fuck the police????

    • @billman2112
      @billman2112 5 місяців тому +1

      You should get out more.

    • @jefferyyepez8546
      @jefferyyepez8546 5 місяців тому

      You must be from the east

    • @_isaacrashad
      @_isaacrashad 5 місяців тому +1

      @@jefferyyepez8546 not even fam. From the south. I just fucked with how they showed everything that was going on at that particular time. Make me wanna watch “Do The Right Thing” every time G lol

    • @myradioon
      @myradioon 5 місяців тому +4

      I lived in this neighborhood at the time. Spike Lee helped organize this I believe. Filmed in downtown/Fort Greene Brooklyn. Spike lived on Eliot Park in the hood and grew up there. This vid is BROOKLYN straight up in those years. Streets was real.

  • @capitaltrading24
    @capitaltrading24 Рік тому +259

    Even in Latin America we listen to this song, and it never gets old! Saludos from Panama!

  • @DavidRichardson95
    @DavidRichardson95 3 роки тому +1424

    30 years later and it is _still_ relevant.

    • @exists8238
      @exists8238 3 роки тому +14

      And I’m glad

    • @andrewhyde8668
      @andrewhyde8668 3 роки тому +11

      Still the greatest

    • @b3at2
      @b3at2 3 роки тому +12

      it still slap too... i remember when this first came out I was 6 years old. and it still go hard.

    • @Libbydoh
      @Libbydoh 3 роки тому +19

      @@exists8238 I wish it weren't. I wish my generation had done more to make this song less relevant. I'm still out there marching, but damn, I was 19 when this song came out. And we've elected a bigot to the White House. We gotta get moving.

    • @exists8238
      @exists8238 3 роки тому +2

      @@Libbydoh oh, oh no are you ok?

  • @user-do5qc5ov5l
    @user-do5qc5ov5l 2 місяці тому +4

    people need to dig up Public Enemy No. 1, this group kills this group.

  • @Abdel-adim-qf1kt
    @Abdel-adim-qf1kt 2 місяці тому +3

    Who's listening in 2024!to my brother who makes me discovered that song younger 😉

  • @WCS_GodF4th3r
    @WCS_GodF4th3r 11 місяців тому +11

    White republican here, somehow this is one of my favorite rap songs lol

    • @josejones7025
      @josejones7025 2 місяці тому +1

      A Republican who’s heard of Public Enemy?
      Elvis was hero to most but he never meant shit to me 😊😂

  • @w.t.o.154
    @w.t.o.154 10 місяців тому +104

    The 80s was truly the decade of black greatness. I recall feeling overly proud of how far as a people we have traveled with more to come. Today, we seem like we have lost our way. DAMN! What a shame.

    • @grindhard4312
      @grindhard4312 7 місяців тому +3

      It's over for black people as race or to be effective. We played around too long.

    • @ericrice8764
      @ericrice8764 7 місяців тому +4

      Let's make America great again ✊

    • @grindhard4312
      @grindhard4312 7 місяців тому

      @@user-pv7tn5do3f Mind your business bro

    • @gregv3181
      @gregv3181 5 місяців тому +6

      Man you hit the nail on the head as a young guy in the Navy I got turned on to P.E. by guys in my division. Seemed like progress was being made for Black Americans and was great to see it happening and being vocal about it. Sadly we seem to be off page or so the powers that be be who control media will tell us. Then I look at my daughters and their friends and have hope that they truly break free of the ignorance that has held back Black Americans. When we respect, value and honor each other we will have a better place to live.

    • @BourneUnderdogg-ux9mg
      @BourneUnderdogg-ux9mg 5 місяців тому +6

      But then the 90's happened

  • @LexBundy
    @LexBundy 7 місяців тому +336

    man, what happened to us?

    • @erkman66
      @erkman66 Місяць тому +19

      Exactly

    • @larganzo
      @larganzo Місяць тому +28

      It ain't ever to late to change

    • @ronaldmcdonaldjunior6616
      @ronaldmcdonaldjunior6616 Місяць тому +27

      Facts. We gotta do better. I’m no longer supporting lame shit no mo

    • @denonde1313
      @denonde1313 Місяць тому +27

      Turn protests into action. Vote, lobby, organize, read, educate people/yourself

    • @kareemabduljacandybar4558
      @kareemabduljacandybar4558 Місяць тому +28

      alot of us are selling eachother out for a pat on head from people who dont like us.

  • @sgtomazin
    @sgtomazin 4 місяці тому +3

    Happy Martin Luther King Day from Southern California!

  • @truthhurtz8517
    @truthhurtz8517 3 роки тому +271

    Best Hip Hop/Rap group of all time...

  • @charlesmiller1487
    @charlesmiller1487 10 місяців тому +90

    Relevant more today than ever✊🏽

    • @Dwoober4real
      @Dwoober4real 4 місяці тому +6

      Not even just for black people but for the american people as a whole. The power is fucking everybody over

    • @SylviavanEsschoten
      @SylviavanEsschoten 4 місяці тому

      Agree

    • @igorivanov299
      @igorivanov299 3 місяці тому

      🤚🏻

    • @TheRetroManRandySavage
      @TheRetroManRandySavage Місяць тому +1

      Just live your life, fella.
      Doesn't matter who is in power. Folks will always find grievances with whoever it is. Nothing will ever be good enough.
      People spend so much time playing the victim, that they miss living their life.
      I'm not singling out anyone in particular here, I'm talking about society in general. Everyone is taking part in the victim Olympics and moaning about change, Whether that be too much change or a lack thereof.
      Everyone in the west has equal rights these day's, so folk should just get on with living there lives, and quit boo-hoo, whining and crying.
      Just my two cents.🤷‍♂️

  • @JamesBond-uk6nt
    @JamesBond-uk6nt 5 місяців тому +28

    The best rap group ever, true legends ...Their songs hit hard

  • @gordonallen9095
    @gordonallen9095 2 місяці тому +4

    A true CLASSIC that is IMMORTAL in the hip hop world. As relevant Now as it was THEN.

  • @odalisgonzalez6875
    @odalisgonzalez6875 Рік тому +579

    They earned their place in The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 👍❤

  • @princeeris1780
    @princeeris1780 11 місяців тому +54

    I swear Chuck’s verse at 2:36 goes more hard every time I hear it 💯

    • @steveb7144
      @steveb7144 4 місяці тому

      Hard of him crying like a B...

    • @BigWhitePig
      @BigWhitePig 3 місяці тому +1

      @@steveb7144like ur mom

  • @taurusbull8276
    @taurusbull8276 4 місяці тому +2

    Flavor flav been looking 30 for the past 35 years now.

  • @lehacookington3586
    @lehacookington3586 24 дні тому +4

    The government hated this

  • @SexyPlaag
    @SexyPlaag Рік тому +200

    Flava Flav, the greatest hype-man in US history, hands down, period... 😃

  • @samwheat8348
    @samwheat8348 3 роки тому +701

    When this was released I can hear the government saying "we have to change the narrative of this rap music. They're beginning to sound too much like malcolm x."

    • @Benttimaki
      @Benttimaki 3 роки тому +44

      "They" then used NWA to subvert it.

    • @clghost3294
      @clghost3294 3 роки тому +23

      @@abominableman the energy was the same and thats what made the industry/ government push west coast gangster rap to cover up and dilute and not educate both black and white kids through music which gets in every home and young person way more than any ministers msg

    • @dangerusscurvs4709
      @dangerusscurvs4709 3 роки тому +4

      And that's exactly what they did..

    • @andrewperoti6525
      @andrewperoti6525 2 роки тому +4

      Yeah and it changed into a circus 😂

    • @korujaa
      @korujaa 2 роки тому

      yes, malcolm x isnt so good, too radical, violent, MLKJ is right, all brothers and sisters.

  • @judeogbonnaya2975
    @judeogbonnaya2975 2 місяці тому +10

    Dear BLACK PEOPLE, our Destiny is on our HANDS.

    • @lucy661000
      @lucy661000 Місяць тому

      ❤💯🎶❤️🌹it will take a nation of millions to hold us back. If we'd just stick together.

  • @jeff420sparky8
    @jeff420sparky8 2 роки тому +180

    RIP ALL BROTHERS WHO FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND BECAME FALLEN WARRIORS AGAINST THE EVIL POWER

  • @paulkersey1007
    @paulkersey1007 2 роки тому +15

    I'm Asian American and I'm gonna say this right here, right now:
    It's 20 f'n 21 and nothing has changed from 1989 till now except the clothes and the music. The African American man and woman is still fighting the power. If I can see it, why the hell can't anyone else?
    NEVER STOP FIGHTING THE POWER.

    • @karmatt3098
      @karmatt3098 2 роки тому

      Stop being racist and shooting little girls for stealing orange juice then.

    • @paulkersey1007
      @paulkersey1007 2 роки тому +2

      @@karmatt3098 I'm the one being racist? So you expect me and an entire community of Asian Americans to be blamed for what happened in 1992? Bro, R.I.P to Latasha Harlins but before you talk about being racist, are you going to accept accountability for all the Asian American elderly killed in the U.S at the hands of African Americans during the pandemic? You're probably gonna say it's white people right? Well these victims don't look like they were attacked by the ones who stormed the Capitol. I have African American friends and thank God, they don't think and act nothing like you. You're so limited minded that you got your assessment of an entire community from a convenience store incident is like if I got my assessment of the African American community from watching a rap video. It's ignorant, just like you. So when you can achieve a common sense level that goes beyond your hood, then level up and come talk to me.

  • @jbcoker
    @jbcoker 19 днів тому +2

    This is before rap was about money and rims. Long live Public Enemy!

  • @commente
    @commente 15 днів тому +3

    Man, did this make an impression back in the days. And man, does it still hold up. Those guys were the coolest back then

  • @notecodeluvrecords7649
    @notecodeluvrecords7649 Рік тому +476

    This track aged like fine wine and remains as relevant today as it did then.

    • @stoneyj1a1
      @stoneyj1a1 Рік тому

      Until Chuck bowed down to big white daddy biden.

    • @delrosedeb1174
      @delrosedeb1174 Рік тому +4

      It's so very relevant to me!

    • @paulbahen5882
      @paulbahen5882 11 місяців тому +4

      That's because the message still applies today.

    • @lakeisharobinson2132
      @lakeisharobinson2132 11 місяців тому +1

      I agree!

    • @mestanley1753
      @mestanley1753 10 місяців тому +4

      Yes, this will never not apply. The causes that lead to its needs are ingrained into to social fabric of life itself. Authority will always use its power for its own gain, unjustly and at the expense of others. ✊️

  • @gregorynetus5557
    @gregorynetus5557 3 роки тому +337

    The legendary public enemy.i grew up with these Iconic music.they dont make music like that anymore.word up son

    • @NorthPhilly-zr7xc
      @NorthPhilly-zr7xc 3 роки тому +1

      Cuase black men aint grow up around this type of environment

    • @gregorynetus5557
      @gregorynetus5557 3 роки тому +3

      @@NorthPhilly-zr7xc wtf you talking about dog.you make no sense

    • @truchistephane4729
      @truchistephane4729 3 роки тому

      Patience

    • @lance11zenithoftheparamoun80
      @lance11zenithoftheparamoun80 3 роки тому

      Come On With It.

    • @idrinkthereforeiam7427
      @idrinkthereforeiam7427 3 роки тому +1

      This was my news, Public Enemy, NWA, this is where I was educated before Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw read the scripted news. Of course I took a hard turn at gothic industrial music, but I cone back to what was, and wish could be again in these turbulent times.

  • @StephonPervez-zt6yv
    @StephonPervez-zt6yv 11 днів тому +2

    2024... Still fighting!!!...

  • @bensondeadfromtheneckup5057
    @bensondeadfromtheneckup5057 16 днів тому +2

    This jam is a national treasure, fight me.

  • @jamesharris30096
    @jamesharris30096 3 роки тому +131

    "Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamp"

  • @tigrayarmy2293
    @tigrayarmy2293 11 місяців тому +20

    Public enemy was the voice of black people all around the world.

    • @JakeKoenig
      @JakeKoenig 11 місяців тому

      And nothing says "voice of black people" more than Tawana Brawley's lying, race-grifting ass at 4:02, trying to blame a fabricated crime on white people. Great optics.

  • @fireprooff9922
    @fireprooff9922 6 місяців тому +2

    Society will never allow music like this to be made again.

  • @leewainwright3526
    @leewainwright3526 9 місяців тому +10

    Greatest era in hip hop history

  • @misslady9286
    @misslady9286 2 роки тому +54

    This is CONSCIOUS RAP at its finest!!

    • @Dudebrochillman
      @Dudebrochillman Рік тому +5

      The original WOKEISM 😂

    • @Dudebrochillman
      @Dudebrochillman Рік тому

      @Strickly4Metal 46 the system isn't racist lol show me a law that's racist... you can't lol

    • @hipphopp69yearsago34
      @hipphopp69yearsago34 Рік тому

      @@Dudebrochillman Show me a predominantly white school with less funds than a predominantly black one....you can't lol

    • @professionalcurrysexual9289
      @professionalcurrysexual9289 День тому

      @@Dudebrochillmanwhites really turned the word woke into anything that isn’t upholding them lmaoo

  • @rocboyhd8349
    @rocboyhd8349 Місяць тому +4

    2024 who here with me

  • @sidebite2533
    @sidebite2533 9 місяців тому +18

    I was 14 and didn't understand the message of this track until about a year later when the racial divide was at all time high. I started hearing my parents talk about government control when the news was on. So I put it all together and it finally sank in.

  • @glenngrant9388
    @glenngrant9388 10 місяців тому +6

    50 YEARS OF HIP HOP THANK YOU! 08/2023

  • @joseyeastwood
    @joseyeastwood 3 роки тому +444

    One of the greatest songs ever fight the power people.

  • @phlegmbuoyant
    @phlegmbuoyant 3 місяці тому +4

    AMEN 🙌🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏿🙏🏼🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏿🙏🙏🏾
    "Don't believe the Hype!!"
    "Yeah-uhhh Boyeeeeeee💯❣️"

  • @kteam4u
    @kteam4u 9 місяців тому +18

    OMG! This was my jam back in the day! Absolutely loved this song courtesy of Spike Lee’s movie “Do the right thing.” It’s amazing to see Griff (aka Professor Griff) in this video because he used to attend the Afrikan Village Spiritual Center when I was the coordinator in Atlanta. He was always down to earth. You’d never know he was a member of one of the hottest 80-90’s rap group. That wasn’t that long ago and that man hasn’t really aged a bit and he’s still passionate about uplifting our people. That type music of music is something that he actually lived by.

  • @Cutay7BOOTAY
    @Cutay7BOOTAY 3 роки тому +59

    Class of 89, I cannot even explain how pumped we were when this dropped, all my friends black, Latino, white and otherwise we felt like we could change the USA!

  • @nalanibrooks216
    @nalanibrooks216 2 роки тому +514

    This song is still relevant and timeless in 2022!!!!!!✊🏾❤

    • @MegaKamandi
      @MegaKamandi 2 роки тому +13

      more then ever in 2022

    • @BrianJohnson-du6pj
      @BrianJohnson-du6pj 2 роки тому +6

      ✊🏿

    • @benjamininkorea7016
      @benjamininkorea7016 2 роки тому +15

      It will be relevant so long as even one person has it in his heart to put down or hold down another.

    • @MrRMT1986
      @MrRMT1986 2 роки тому

      It sure is! We have banned woke culture and COVID mandates in the great state of Florida.

    • @marychandler8097
      @marychandler8097 Рік тому +4

      appropriating this song today, but it is the theme of my day