@@dannytafrodon I hear you. I personally have several people in my life over 40…who live and think like teenagers. Being an adult means more than having armpit hair.
@@suarezxav802 “Hip-hop” “Street-knowledge” What does ANY of that mean to anyone over 13? Will it get you into college? Will it get you a wage increase? Will it extend free lunch services at a child’s school? But, what it WILL get you is a bunch of blindly ignorant “children of a lesser god”, who can’t think; can’t speak or write clearly-who have no sense of responsibility for anyone…other than themselves. And this world is leaving ya’ll dumb, silly, melanin-drenched asses behind. Put some of that energy into getting competent, (in something); getting capable, (in something). At some point, you will become just as unimportant to the world as the music you love is. Just tryin’ to save your mind, child.
Such a powerful Video! Public Enemy is by far my favourite Hip Hop Group. Saw them in concert (Brixton Academy, London 1988).....was one of the best nights of my Life! 😎💃🤩😁
Bro, racism in America was the biggest reason. Major Labels just figured out that America was more entertained with drugs, guns and violence. Instead of "CRT". The labels were just greedy. Angry White Christian Conservative were the major voice "Canceling" conscious Hip-hop.
Cain’t serve 2 masters. You cain’t one day a. “Fight The Power” then b. “Get Rich or Die Trying” Black folks need to make some serious decisions regarding what’s more important in life.
I think that whenever you try to pass down anything to the younger generation?…it will not be understood by the listener the way you heard it-in YOUR mind.
What you say is absolutely true. But…it’s also absolutely true that there’s enough Black entertainment wealth to create WHATEVER we say we need. The days of blaming white folks for not providing us with what we need is long gone. The Hispanics have their own television networks; their own “Grammys”; their own everything. WHY DON’T WE?!?
Hey thanks for bringing this one back. The song with ATTITUDE!!! I hear you my dear . That's why i instill to my son's and younger generation be grateful for the sacrifice your forefathers went thru. Because today you can be anything you want to be.( I myself in today's society had to fight). Hey you can even be an lawyer, doctor or the president.
i agree with you 100% itzjt i feel the same way but we as black people have ben brainwashed by willie lynch slavery mentality to hate ourselves but this public enemy jam is a hit with knowledge we can learn from our horrible history.
As a 46 year old very white man in Florida, i had the blessing of growing up in Philly when Public Enemy came out with this. I grew up with black people, played football and bled with them. Slept at their house, they slept at mine, smoked philly blunts and all was well. I have a great sympathy for what my race did. I also have great sympathy for all races who lived under slavery. White, black, brown, yellow, tan, have all lived under slavery in the past. Once you understand this, you become colorblind and all becomes well. I dont trust any race, including my own, and yet still, all is well ;) Im blessed, fortunate and severely undeserving of living in current times. Praise Jesus!
Many did end they life jumped off the boats cause of the torture and the rape and the destitute. And the ones who didn’t are the reason we here. That’s Minister Malcolm X speaking in the beginning and that’s why I sent that as suggestions of reactions our great leaders.
When hiphop subject matter included topics like this the entire U.S. government took stances against these artist. They had to counter this message so they empowered gangster rap systematically removing HipHop culture from Rap Music Business. So today you have no trace of HipHop Culture in Rap Music.
I can't really call this music of today as gangster. Gangsters were semi organized, probably why it's called organized crime. This generation has no awareness moving reckless. Ignorance is what's selling right now
Aka Bass: Right on my sist'a. I knew you would appreciate that. Reach one teach one. We can't let all of the distractionary topics cause us to forget. We have to educate and love each other. So much blood, sweat and tears were shed for us to make it today. I don't like to compare atrocities but Slavery was worse. It lasted 400 years and over 15 million died during the slave trade and living through it wasn't much better than death.
A lot of them did end their lives. There was even an incident that happened as soon as a slave ship hit land over in Savanna, Ga. About 200 of them immediately drowned themselves. The boat ride alone was enough for them.
People always mention that nonsense and forget that the black slave owner had no choice. Either you be a slave owner or be a slave pick your choice. And the white slave owner had all the power over a black slave owner. At any time the white slave owner would make the black slave owner a slave if the black slave owner wasn't kissing his butt. And the white slave owner would rape the black female slave even though she was married to a slave. But nobody wants to bring up the real true facts instead of the lies they put in the history books 📚 💯
There was not a "very large number of black slave owners" as many states had prohibited Black people from owning any property, whether that property was brick and mortar or human. You conservatives need to stop revising history to fit your lies.
That’s a good question! I believe that technology has changed so much that audiences have come to rely on the images it presents more than the messages of the words. No cap. It’s kinda like trying to get someone who’s only reads comic books to try to read a book without pictures. As an artist with something to say, you gotta entertain them, before you can teach them. Sad.
“…when hip hop had something to say.” I agree with you. Back then, it had a message of upliftment that I could really get behind. Nonetheless…it’s saying “something” -even today. Unfortunately: I just can’t get behind it. What do YOU feel-hip hop is saying today? And: “Who is listening to what it has to say nowadays?”. Respect.
But know this young sister. The ones who get it to our ancestors.There people are gonna have to go through the same thing that our ancestors went through by us
it was good to hear your thought on that subject, but after enslavement they didn't stop a lot of Black people move away from them folk built their own town/small cities they did good for them selves, but then those folks found out the depth of their evilness really showed they went in and massacred everyone that couldn't get away some are know and most are probably is still unknown, look up what happen during "Red Summer" (1919), and remember there wasn't any internet back then, so they had to planned for what happen for almost a year. And what's really crazy them folks want to go back to that time. 😐
Dr. Claud Anderson: What is Racism As It Concerns Blacks? Racism is a wealth and power-based competitive relationship between Blacks and non-Blacks. The sole purpose of racism is to support and ensure that the White majority and its ethnic subgroups continue to dominate and use Blacks as a means to produce wealth and power. Centuries of Black enslavement and Jim Crow semi-slavery resulted in the majority society becoming 99-foot giants and Blacks one-foot midgets. This massive inequality in wealth and resources made Blacks non-competitive and totally dependent upon Whites for the necessities of life. TRUE RACISM exists only when one group holds a disproportionate share of wealth and power over another group then uses those resources to marginalize, exploit and subordinate the weaker group. In America, there are some Whites who use wealth and power to marginalize, exploit and subordinate Blacks. Whites can deny Blacks employment, educational opportunities, business resources, a place to live or the right to vote. Therefore, according to this definition, Black people cannot be racists. No group of Blacks has the power or exclusive control of resources to the degree that they can educationally, politically, economically and socially exploit and marginalize the White race. Blacks can only react to racism and try to alter the conditions that racism creates.
That's your ancestors JT...we were kidnapped from Africa and brought here in slavery against our will. And that explains REPARATION for alllll Blacks in America for these many wrong doings!!
Chuck D felt like the issues he was bringing forth were so serious/intense that there needed to be a sorta comic folly to break up the seriousness, hence, Flava Flav. Also, before you bring race into this, The Beastie Boys shared their Def Jam label with Public Enemy before they were famous and Beasties asked them to open for them on their tour and Public Enemy got famous. NTM, The Beastie Boys were 3 Jewish boys from Manhattan. Also, love the way the video portrays killers/enslavers of black folks on horses back in the 1800's to those same racist bastards now driving police cars. Nothing has changed.
Do people think that is how slavery looked like ? No sane people would beat slaves around cotton they wanted to sell . It would damage the merch. Daily rapes of women ? To risk pregnancy and death of the adult slave you paid for ? Very risky and expensive business, it could be done on plantations that specilized in breeding slaves . And guards having sex with masters slaves, was out of the question . Because it was using someone elses property. Now masters kept misstresses , but those weren't field slaves. They were mostly mixed raced, educated and working around the house . In the New Orleans area they had special schools for such girls , which was a French inheritance. Also it is not like planations post 1760s were huge money makers , especialy in mainland america. The upkeep cost was big, the housing , clothes were expensive. The returns on slave work were low, and mid XIXth century had to rival mass industries employing refugees from Europe. As reparation goes the US goverment already did those . Ex slaves were allowed to take ownerships of housing and plots of land they occupied as slaves, that is if thry decided to stay in the US . For tjose that wanted ro leave the US goverment paid for ships, supplies and weapons to resettle the exslaves to Liberia , where they subjagated and enslaved the local population and have been having on and off civil wars ever since.
We bow down or pray to one of the best white man god a man up Jesus and what’s funny Jesus was a slave ship called the slave ship Jesus. Look it up. Also Jesus was a lord or land owner we come from kings and queens which are higher than lords remember only slaves or servants pray or beg to lords not people from kings and queens.. we suppose to stand and talk to gods
You're gonna have to reprogram yourself to almost anything that the government has said and done. For example uncle tom. He wasn't what they called him. Tom was someone that the slave master wanted to have beat other slaves. And he wouldn't do it. So he Got somebody named sam to do it. Hits from the word sambo. So actually uncle tom was a good guy
So glad you were pointed in the direction of PE and this song. I'm also glad that you were able to decipher the message in the music. However, I strongly suggest you do further research on the travails of slavery and all the dehumanizing madness it entails. Because a few of your comments IMO were a little disturbing. Especially the ones concerning blk male/women dynamics. Unlike today, blk men and women had none but each other and the dehumanizing/rachet interactions between the two of today, just didn't happen. In fact, most men have their lives (almost willingly) to protect the women in their lives. Even IF by most accounts, they didn't have that choice. And also on the subject of (g)rape, please understand that women and girls weren't the only ones that that disgusting practice happened to. This is why so many ppl today want to cover up and rewrite history (if not outright outlaw you learning the truth) so that their crimes will continue to be hidden. But again, so glad you liked the song. Hope it fuels your desire to learn the real origins of Black Americans from the slave fields of this country. Later.
Your commentary is exactly what PE brings out when you listen to their music. They made a huge impact on me when I was a teen.
You was a teen, is she? Evolution is necessary to learn.
@@dannytafrodon
I hear you. I personally have several people in my life over 40…who live and think like teenagers. Being an adult means more than having armpit hair.
Speak
Public Enemy "By The Time I Get To Arizona".. Had politicians shook
Yea I want to see her reaction to By the time I get to Arizona
Hip hop street knowledge awareness history was getting exposed love the 80's no hate awakening call respect to my black brown people
@@suarezxav802
“Hip-hop”
“Street-knowledge”
What does ANY of that mean to anyone over 13? Will it get you into college? Will it get you a wage increase? Will it extend free lunch services at a child’s school? But, what it WILL get you is a bunch of blindly ignorant “children of a lesser god”, who can’t think; can’t speak or write clearly-who have no sense of responsibility for anyone…other than themselves. And this world is leaving ya’ll dumb, silly, melanin-drenched asses behind. Put some of that energy into getting competent, (in something); getting capable, (in something). At some point, you will become just as unimportant to the world as the music you love is. Just tryin’ to save your mind, child.
I'm 51 and to the day this is my favorite group. I thank you sister for listening. We need this kind of music now 2024. Power to the People
Such a powerful Video!
Public Enemy is by far my favourite Hip Hop Group.
Saw them in concert (Brixton Academy, London 1988).....was one of the best nights of my Life!
😎💃🤩😁
Fight The Power- “Elvis, was hero to most…” I remember how that line SHOCKED “middle” American sensibilities back in the day. Great reaction btw!
It’s by shedding light on these deep issues that Public Enemy has been a top rap group, and this is one of their best tracks.
The LEGENDARY Iconic Public Enemy featuring Chuck D
The white record company got rid of conscious rap and replaced it with gangster rap. That is why there is no public enemy.
Bro, racism in America was the biggest reason. Major Labels just figured out that America was more entertained with drugs, guns and violence. Instead of "CRT". The labels were just greedy. Angry White Christian Conservative were the major voice "Canceling" conscious Hip-hop.
Cain’t serve 2 masters.
You cain’t one day
a. “Fight The Power”
then
b. “Get Rich or Die Trying”
Black folks need to make some serious decisions regarding what’s more important in life.
I think that whenever you try to pass down anything to the younger generation?…it will not be understood by the listener the way you heard it-in YOUR mind.
@@awwfunkme
Ooooh kay, then.
What now??
What you say is absolutely true. But…it’s also absolutely true that there’s enough Black entertainment wealth to create WHATEVER we say we need. The days of blaming white folks for not providing us with what we need is long gone. The Hispanics have their own television networks; their own “Grammys”; their own everything. WHY DON’T WE?!?
Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype! 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hey thanks for bringing this one back. The song with ATTITUDE!!! I hear you my dear . That's why i instill to my son's and younger generation be grateful for the sacrifice your forefathers went thru. Because today you can be anything you want to be.( I myself in today's society had to fight). Hey you can even be an lawyer, doctor or the president.
i agree with you 100% itzjt i feel the same way but we as black people have ben brainwashed by willie lynch slavery mentality to hate ourselves but this public enemy jam is a hit with knowledge we can learn from our horrible history.
Chuck D!
My favorite PE song!
React to Tupac song They don't give an F____ about us 🔥🔥🔥
Public Enemy was a multi-platinum group.
It’s a shame this type of truth can’t be huge like P.E. was.
I dig yo videos you very open minded about your thoughts on old school rap keep pushing forward young queen
Real Hip hop
Talk that TRUE TALK!!!!! Great reaction to a great song. The power of music is PHENOMENAL! Dropped 1991 yet still a POWERFUL MESSAGE! 😎
Flavor flav was used for comic relief, because the subjects were so real.
As a 46 year old very white man in Florida, i had the blessing of growing up in Philly when Public Enemy came out with this. I grew up with black people, played football and bled with them. Slept at their house, they slept at mine, smoked philly blunts and all was well. I have a great sympathy for what my race did. I also have great sympathy for all races who lived under slavery. White, black, brown, yellow, tan, have all lived under slavery in the past. Once you understand this, you become colorblind and all becomes well. I dont trust any race, including my own, and yet still, all is well ;) Im blessed, fortunate and severely undeserving of living in current times. Praise Jesus!
Suggestion-- Black Steel in the hour of chaos/ Public Enemy
Rebel without a pause
Many did end they life jumped off the boats cause of the torture and the rape and the destitute. And the ones who didn’t are the reason we here. That’s Minister Malcolm X speaking in the beginning and that’s why I sent that as suggestions of reactions our great leaders.
When hiphop subject matter included topics like this the entire U.S. government took stances against these artist. They had to counter this message so they empowered gangster rap systematically removing HipHop culture from Rap Music Business. So today you have no trace of HipHop Culture in Rap Music.
THIS THE REAL SHI WHAT HAPPENED TO US SOME BLACK YOUNG PEOPLE FORGET IN THIS DAY OVER AND OVER
check out Public Enemy - "Shut'em Down" (Pete Rock remix)
Public Enemy is legendary. I am proud to be a white man who wore a PE shirt in high school and played this song for my English class.
Queen! preach the truth! Bass in your face!
A banger public enemy can't trust it deep message there are so many other song like these to react to it just takes a little tighten up.
Rap music like this is why they changed up and gangster rap is all we've heard since then.
I can't really call this music of today as gangster. Gangsters were semi organized, probably why it's called organized crime. This generation has no awareness moving reckless. Ignorance is what's selling right now
Aka Bass: Right on my sist'a. I knew you would appreciate that. Reach one teach one. We can't let all of the distractionary topics cause us to forget. We have to educate and love each other. So much blood, sweat and tears were shed for us to make it today. I don't like to compare atrocities but Slavery was worse. It lasted 400 years and over 15 million died during the slave trade and living through it wasn't much better than death.
This is the most important video in Hip Hop history.
A lot of them did end their lives. There was even an incident that happened as soon as a slave ship hit land over in Savanna, Ga. About 200 of them immediately drowned themselves. The boat ride alone was enough for them.
LL cool j was in the same era when old school was popping. 🔥🔥
Fun fact: slavery still exists and even more rampant now than it was then. There was a very large number of black slave owners and slave traders.
People always mention that nonsense and forget that the black slave owner had no choice. Either you be a slave owner or be a slave pick your choice. And the white slave owner had all the power over a black slave owner. At any time the white slave owner would make the black slave owner a slave if the black slave owner wasn't kissing his butt. And the white slave owner would rape the black female slave even though she was married to a slave. But nobody wants to bring up the real true facts instead of the lies they put in the history books 📚 💯
There was not a "very large number of black slave owners" as many states had prohibited Black people from owning any property, whether that property was brick and mortar or human. You conservatives need to stop revising history to fit your lies.
How you call it “fun” fact?
I like this song,special for my.
I wonder what their response would be if people heard just the song with NO video.
Would they even hear what was being said? 🤔
That’s a good question! I believe that technology has changed so much that audiences have come to rely on the images it presents more than the messages of the words. No cap. It’s kinda like trying to get someone who’s only reads comic books to try to read a book without pictures. As an artist with something to say, you gotta entertain them, before you can teach them. Sad.
Nothings changed 😢
This is my ish right here.
Great thoughts
When hip-hop had something to say....
“…when hip hop had something to say.”
I agree with you. Back then, it had a message of upliftment that I could really get behind. Nonetheless…it’s saying “something” -even today. Unfortunately: I just can’t get behind it. What do YOU feel-hip hop is saying today? And: “Who is listening to what it has to say nowadays?”. Respect.
But know this young sister. The ones who get it to our ancestors.There people are gonna have to go through the same thing that our ancestors went through by us
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
it was good to hear your thought on that subject, but after enslavement they didn't stop a lot of Black people move away from them folk built their own town/small cities they did good for them selves, but then those folks found out the depth of their evilness really showed they went in and massacred everyone that couldn't get away some are know and most are probably is still unknown, look up what happen during "Red Summer" (1919), and remember there wasn't any internet back then, so they had to planned for what happen for almost a year.
And what's really crazy them folks want to go back to that time. 😐
Dr. Claud Anderson:
What is Racism As It Concerns Blacks?
Racism is a wealth and power-based competitive relationship between Blacks and non-Blacks. The sole purpose of racism is to support and ensure that the White majority and its ethnic subgroups continue to dominate and use Blacks as a means to produce wealth and power. Centuries of Black enslavement and Jim Crow semi-slavery resulted in the majority society becoming 99-foot giants and Blacks one-foot midgets. This massive inequality in wealth and resources made Blacks non-competitive and totally dependent upon Whites for the necessities of life. TRUE RACISM exists only when one group holds a disproportionate share of wealth and power over another group then uses those resources to marginalize, exploit and subordinate the weaker group. In America, there are some Whites who use wealth and power to marginalize, exploit and subordinate Blacks. Whites can deny Blacks employment, educational opportunities, business resources, a place to live or the right to vote. Therefore, according to this definition, Black people cannot be racists. No group of Blacks has the power or exclusive control of resources to the degree that they can educationally, politically, economically and socially exploit and marginalize the White race. Blacks can only react to racism and try to alter the conditions that racism creates.
I Love ❤ you for your Feeling's & Feedback on our History..I Feel The Same As you " JT".
Plz do brand nubian....reprise in the sunshine....wake up
You need to react to old school rap group call X clan and their songs
1. Funkin lesson
2. Need the word of the brother
Heed the word of the brother👊🏾 and In the ways of the scales...Fire & Earth off the 2nd album, they WERE Black Power #ZOOM
.💯
@@BThaSmoovUnoGrand Verbalizer
@@danielbalboni6804No Doubt!
I see the pain in your eyes!!😢😢
That's your ancestors JT...we were kidnapped from Africa and brought here in slavery against our will. And that explains REPARATION for alllll Blacks in America for these many wrong doings!!
We was already here in America before The Transatlantic. That’s why it’s even more deeply rooted and why white Supremacy is this way.
Hazy shade of criminal my friend
NOTHING HAS CHANGE THERE STILL IN POWER JUST LOOK AT YOUR $ MONEY $
And yes JT just image that 246 years of slavery for our ancestors..
It was more that 246 years in America it was close to 400 and we still slaves it’s just corporate. Read the 13th Amendment
One of the greatest rap group and video ever.those racist wbite trash are still there.word up son
Chuck D super underrated....free Tizzy Stackz
They shut groups like that down on purpose
Chuck D felt like the issues he was bringing forth were so serious/intense that there needed to be a sorta comic folly to break up the seriousness, hence, Flava Flav. Also, before you bring race into this, The Beastie Boys shared their Def Jam label with Public Enemy before they were famous and Beasties asked them to open for them on their tour and Public Enemy got famous. NTM, The Beastie Boys were 3 Jewish boys from Manhattan. Also, love the way the video portrays killers/enslavers of black folks on horses back in the 1800's to those same racist bastards now driving police cars. Nothing has changed.
4 years vs 400 years?
No comparison so called Jews
Criminal
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT "COAST CONTRA" THE 🔥NEW OLD SCHOOL FIRE🔥GO CHECK THEM OUT SISTER🎶👍🏿❤
That why you got that color baby girl
If you get a chance review PE' s album Fear Of A Black Planet. It will blow your mind.
CHECKOUT PUBLIC ENEMY'S BROTHER'S GOTTA WORK IT OUT
WYCLEF JEAN'S GUNPOWER
X-CLAN'S EARTH AND FIRE (THE 6 MINUTE VERSION)
P E #1
Once again im in shame coz of my white ancesters 💧
Listen to Nasir Jones aka Nas he's the update version of these ProBlax Rapper new lyrics
Hate was taught…,
Slavery is still alive in parts of the 😂
Do people think that is how slavery looked like ? No sane people would beat slaves around cotton they wanted to sell . It would damage the merch. Daily rapes of women ? To risk pregnancy and death of the adult slave you paid for ? Very risky and expensive business, it could be done on plantations that specilized in breeding slaves . And guards having sex with masters slaves, was out of the question . Because it was using someone elses property. Now masters kept misstresses , but those weren't field slaves. They were mostly mixed raced, educated and working around the house . In the New Orleans area they had special schools for such girls , which was a French inheritance. Also it is not like planations post 1760s were huge money makers , especialy in mainland america. The upkeep cost was big, the housing , clothes were expensive. The returns on slave work were low, and mid XIXth century had to rival mass industries employing refugees from Europe. As reparation goes the US goverment already did those . Ex slaves were allowed to take ownerships of housing and plots of land they occupied as slaves, that is if thry decided to stay in the US . For tjose that wanted ro leave the US goverment paid for ships, supplies and weapons to resettle the exslaves to Liberia , where they subjagated and enslaved the local population and have been having on and off civil wars ever since.
Ask yourselves black brothas and sistas, why are our ancestors were in slavery, until this day?
We bow down or pray to one of the best white man god a man up Jesus and what’s funny Jesus was a slave ship called the slave ship Jesus. Look it up. Also Jesus was a lord or land owner we come from kings and queens which are higher than lords remember only slaves or servants pray or beg to lords not people from kings and queens.. we suppose to stand and talk to gods
You're gonna have to reprogram yourself to almost anything that the government has said and done. For example uncle tom. He wasn't what they called him. Tom was someone that the slave master wanted to have beat other slaves. And he wouldn't do it. So he Got somebody named sam to do it. Hits from the word sambo.
So actually uncle tom was a good guy
It's not my favorite song by Public Enemy. I'm not a fan of that song.
I like your reviews beautiful.. You got an IG??
So glad you were pointed in the direction of PE and this song. I'm also glad that you were able to decipher the message in the music. However, I strongly suggest you do further research on the travails of slavery and all the dehumanizing madness it entails. Because a few of your comments IMO were a little disturbing. Especially the ones concerning blk male/women dynamics. Unlike today, blk men and women had none but each other and the dehumanizing/rachet interactions between the two of today, just didn't happen. In fact, most men have their lives (almost willingly) to protect the women in their lives. Even IF by most accounts, they didn't have that choice. And also on the subject of (g)rape, please understand that women and girls weren't the only ones that that disgusting practice happened to. This is why so many ppl today want to cover up and rewrite history (if not outright outlaw you learning the truth) so that their crimes will continue to be hidden. But again, so glad you liked the song. Hope it fuels your desire to learn the real origins of Black Americans from the slave fields of this country. Later.
good commentary
Good
Makes you wonder why black people don't treat each other better