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Public Enemy changed hip-hop with its blend of politically aware lyrics, dissonant beats and an inventive group dynamic. Chuck D's booming voice and complex lyrics touted black nationalism and critiqued societal inequity. Flavor Flav played the trickster/court jester. Terminator X, the DJ, spoke only with his hands. And Professor Griff and the S1Ws claimed a proto-militaristic stance. The mix made for some of rap's most exciting music.
Hailing from Roosevelt, a small town in Long Island's South Shore, Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour) got his start in hip-hop as a radio DJ at Adelphi University's WBAU. When Def Jam records co-founder Rick Rubin heard a song called 'Public Enemy Number One' that Chuck made with friend Hank Shocklee, Rubin immediately tried to sign him to the burgeoning label.
Though Chuck was skeptical at first, he soon relented, enlisting Shocklee and his Spectrum City cohorts Keith Shocklee and Eric "Vietnam' Sadler to do production as the Bomb Squad. Chuck's idea was to create the ultimate political hip-hop group. Flavor Flav (William Drayton), Griff, Terminator X and the S1Ws soon joined the fold in what was once high-minded theater, Black Panther-inspired aethetics, edgy beats and fiercely political lyrics.
The raw beats and rhymes from the group's 1988 debut, 'Yo Bum Rush the Show,' did little to prepare rap fans for their masterpiece sophomore release, 'It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.' The album was powerful, cohesive and like nothing rap had produced before.
The Bomb Squad constructed walls of noise and intricate sample pastiches that were the perfect backdrop for Chuck D's forceful delivery and Flav's hyped ab-libs. 'Fight the Power,' which is on the soundtrack of Spike Lee's 1989 film 'Do the Right Thing,' stands as one of the genre's best examples of hip-hop's rebellious spirit.
Adam Yauch (MCA from the Beastie Boys) recalled the group's significance in 'Rolling Stone' magazine's 2004 feature about the 100 greatest artists of all time. (The group came in at number 44.)
"PE completely changed the game musically. No one was just putting straight-out noise and atonal synthesizers into hip-hop, mixing elements of James Brown and Miles Davis; no one in hip-hop had ever been this hard, and perhaps no one has since. They made everything else sound clean and happy, and the power of the music perfectly matched the intention of the lyrics. They were also the first rap group to really focus on making albums - you can listen to 'Nation of Millions' or 'Fear of a Black Planet' from beginning to end. They aren't just random songs tossed together."
Though the group was hailed for their music, they also endured a fair bit of controversy when critics accused some of the lyrics of 'Welcome to the Terrordome' as being anti-Semitic. (Griff was eventually asked to leave the group over statements he made.)
Still, the group endured, releasing a series of albums through '90s, two of which ('Fear of a Black Planet' and 'Apocalypse 91...The Empire Strikes Black') can be considered rap's most accomplished efforts.
Recently, Chuck D has hosted political talk radio shows and Flav has become a reality TV icon. He has also released his memoir, 'Flavor Flav: The Icon, The Memoir.'
The group was recognized at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors in 2009.
Influenced...Paris, KRS-One, Ice Cube, X-Clan, dead prez, Immortal Technique, Ice-T, among others.
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By: Willie A on 6/28/2011 10:01PM
I WISH WE HAD YOU GUYS AROUND TODAY TO SPREAD AWARENESS OF ISSUES THAT ARE AFFECTING BLACK PEOPLE. This garbage we have today has simply HELPED BRING DOWN BLACK AMERICA. P. E. or some group should do a tour and began promoting black issues, encouraging BLACKS ESPECIALLY OUR YOUNG MEN TO STAND UP. I really miss you guys. Rapp has not been the same since you guys left the scene. Who knows maybe one day these morons like Lil Wayne will wake up see the destruction he is spewing out his mouth and write and promote positive images for blacks.
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By: Tamm on 6/29/2011 3:12AM
I agree with you 100%, this rap music that's out now is terrible, some of these dudes I never even heard of. Rap music is definitely not anything like it use to be when I was a kid growning up in the 80's public enemy rap about the issues that where going on back in the day, they need to make a comback and show these youngster today something.
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By: vic on 6/29/2011 3:32AM
Well said!!!
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By: Deb on 6/29/2011 7:51AM
When I grew up in da Lou and E. St. Louis "The Message (Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five)" told our story of trying to leave the hood. Today it's about material sh@ and video hoochies!!!
Luv Dr. Dre!
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By: vondrazy on 6/29/2011 9:42AM
I love Public Enemy & Chuck D.
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By: Gcompany82 on 6/29/2011 9:58AM
after the rodney king riot,white sociologists and other white leaders realized that the social-consciousness produced by 90's rap along with Spike Lee's movie 'Do The Right Thing'created the atmosphere that facilitated the righteous reaction to the unfair verdict.therefore they thought it imperative to subtly remove political rap from the scene.Self-promotional rap was therefore rewarded with more air time to the point to where it soon replaced "political rap" hence the overwhelming narcissistic,braggadocial,self promoting attitude and influence that have watered down our revolutionary zeal.In effect, blacks have been lulled to sleep,made to feel that we now live in the post-racism age when the racists are secretly planning for us everyday: their plan is to subtly lower our population through abortion by placing a planned parenthood facility within every black neighborhood thus leading to a marked reduction in our population growth with 1500 black babies killed everyday by their mothers which has led to 13 million blacks dead which is a number twice the amount of Jews exterminated in Hitler's camps,I cant help but feel that this practice of the extermination of Blacks will escalate and become even more obvious or brazen in some fashion made to look more civil,some may agree with me that the police's practice of killing young black men is a perfect example.When the state of Florida,brazenly denied blacks their right to vote in the 2000 election,we lacked the revolutionary zeal to effectively combat the racists and today despite the fact that Obama is President,the Black unemployment rate is at a whopping 16%,a number equall to white unemployment during the great depression.What is needed in the Black Community is a greater sense of family,a sense of family will produce a badly needed sense of unity and in effect,that unity spirit will transfer or manifest itself in a return to our revolutionary zeal or our sense of unity and peoplehood.Let's hurry, time is not on our side.
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By: CASEY on 6/29/2011 8:44PM
I used to love hearing those songs... still sound good today. Chuck D's voice was one of a kind.
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