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[@matthewpettengill3008]

As a white boy at 55yr old rocker u have no idea how refreshing this music was and it is music from the soul so much respect chuck d crushed it and Flav 🙃❤️

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

hahah I'm 55 years old as well, a few days ago. I just watched Big Daddy Kane perform at the Rock The Bells 50th anniversary concert series and he told the crowd he was 54. I was like, daaaaaaaaaamn ... I'm older than Big Daddy Kane? Hahaha Hey .... remember ... no half steppin.

[@Dadmasterjames]

56 year old white dude here, with you on PE. Some of the best stuff ever made.

[@KirkTeetzel]

52, it hit me just like when I first heard punk music when I was much younger

[@bernie7044]

Haha, im a 50 yearold black dude. This is why Gen X was the best. I so wished the young people of today could get a glimpse of our generation and music. The powers that be tried to separate us but they couldn't. Our music wouldn't allow us. When PE teamed up with Anthrax, Aerosmith and Run DMC. It was a great time to be alive. As for me I'm a metal head but I love all music, metal is just my favorite. I remember when they said Metallica was this trend and wouldn't last, haha, the joke is on them. From Slayer to Tesla, you name it, they are still here. To see this kids today react, they see that these people were really talented. The looks on their faces when they see Van Halen Eruption, lol.

[@hanmeyer1301]

Hey dudes. I saw PE and Anthrax show in Vancouver. Primus opened.

[@GodParticleZero]

Chuck D has such an iconic voice

[@Msboochie2]

One of if not the best rap voice ever.

[@realartist_eric2365]

YES SIR

[@John-tn7nm]

Flava Flav had his own song was, 911 is a Joke. Check it out

[@bleedinggreennation8291]

Professor Griff and Flavor Flav

[@martymar1964]

@@John-tn7nm Flav also does Can't Do Nuttin For You and Cold Lampin'. He was the sugar that made the message easier to swallow.

[@chrisspratlin5656]

Chuck D had the best rap voice in the industry period! This is my generation I graduated high school in 1988 and by 1989 I was in the military. Huge Public Enemy fan.

[@rankobarensic]

Yeah boy😂

[@cjonyx]

I'm just gonna say this straight out! This is my favourite rap song, rap group and rapper of all time! This is not just a rap.....THIS IS AN ANTHEM! Big shout out to Spike Lee for having Rosie Perez dance to this during the opening credits of his movie "Do The Right Thing".

[@jgsrhythm100]

Mandatory to check the original Isley Brothers - Fight The Power

[@dablaqueguy]

Love that movie.

[@LakerDodgerRamKingLA]

As A Mexican/American from L.A , 15 yrs old when this came out , I Admire what Public Enemy Did here , used there platform to bring awareness to the people on a Big stage, that Elvis and John Wayne Bar still gets me shook 🤯when I here it. 🔥

[@AshleyDarkwood]

I love Asia's concentration on what Chuck D is saying.. That is the correct way to appreciate Public Enemy. You don't have to move... Just listen.

[@throwabrick]

Public Enemy rocked the house. Love them or hate them, nobody could ignore them.

[@criticalmass613]

PE was the complete package - best message, best music, best lyrics

[@robertgriffiths5494]

There will never be another group like them

[@charleswashington5888]

Public Enemy was indeed The Black Panthers of Hip-Hop. There were a lot of conscious Hip-Hop groups besides Public Enemy. Boogie Down Productions, X-Clan, Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers. Me coming from that era, I'm glad that I witnessed it.

[@hankhenderson7489]

Leader of the new school & for those who were really down! Who remembers..."paris"? If you don't remember him, check him out on utube!!! I love public enemy as a hard m.l.k. but paris was a version of malcolm x

[@Psmitty97]

X-Clan for sure. More hardcore with it. Sissy!

[@brickjones3831]

To give you better context of the video... this song is from the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Classic Film "Do The Right Thing"( also directed this video) the video was actually made on the same Block and area. In 89 NYC was a hot bed of racism. With the Murder Of Yusef Hawkins, the Rape of Tawanna Brawley ( who was in the Video. Mayoral race between David Dinkins and Rudy Guliani

[@watchreadplayretro]

Do The Right Thing was epic, another possible movie request, but it is a hard-hitting movie, down to the bone. But yep even though I'm from the UK, fully agree from documentaries and news shown over here on NYC back at that time, this was needed to give a bigger voice! There is a bubbling aggression almost within the raps, but it was a 'we can take no more of this' message, so yep protesting for a reason!

[@SHASHABOOMBASTICK]

The great Spike Lee is the director of this amazing video. Tawanna Brawley was standing in front in the all white. At 15y old She was kidnapped, raped (for 4 days) and left for dead, naked, covered in feces, inside a trash bag, by 4 white men in upstate NY. Police covered it up by saying she made it up (!!!). Yusef Hawking was 16 yr when he was attacked by a mob of white boys (and alot of men); beaten then shot to death (#EmmettTill) because he was a young Blackman who was walking in the "white section" of Brooklyn called Bensonhurst. NYC was, and is, such a racist place. At that time they used to ride around in a van fill of white people with bats, and clubs looking for blacks. Screech

[@SHASHABOOMBASTICK]

.... up to them, then jump out to chase you and beat you down! I've gotten chased, at that same age, along Rockaway blvd when I missed the last bus after getting off el train from Bklyn. They would stop chasing a block before Lincoln Park, cause now you on the Southside (South Ozone Park). I swear, sh*t used to be just like The Warriors movie (gotta get to home base - your turf)

[@LakerDodgerRamKingLA]

Facts

[@rastomasstanford7708]

Let me know Shorty 🎉

[@jeffreygalket5883]

I wish Rap and Hip Hop could return to this sound again. The unbelievably talented samples over samples, the meaningful lyrics, and just the raw power of these songs. I’m predominantly a rock fan, but these guys could match up with any rock band.

[@td315]

“What is he doing” lol. You just witnessed the greatest hype man in hip hop history. When this first came out our crew loved Flave and his antics I even got his solo album.

[@21inchwide]

Asia's face at the start was the same as mine when I was a teenager listening to this on wax on my dad's record player. I knew I was listing to something powerful and extraordinary at the time. They are HOF musical pioneers. And I'm a white 50 year old guy now. "You say what is this!?"

[@thegreg4]

Public Enemy is THE MOST POWERFUL HIP HOP GROUP IN THE HISTORY.

[@toneclear1878]

This was the power of hip hop....nothing compares to this....look at the people...all together...hip hop...public enemy.......

[@jgsrhythm100]

Mandatory to check the original Isley Brothers - Fight The Power

[@40ozkingwest9]

Speaking from a white mans perspective, the lower class, non race specified, need PE and groups like XClan to know the rich hadn’t sold out. It was a beautiful time of cold hard facts and convos. Not just hate this hate that

[@lxlthr4058]

I was 21 when Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos came out in '88. Changed my life. Chuck D is one of the most influential people in my life that I've never met.

[@RTDavis0503]

I love her reaction on the Elvis and John Wayne line

[@ikewp901]

it's an untrue BS lyric about Elvis!

[@Dabridge4009]

what a time to be alive during this time of hiphop smh..dam...and now we got what we got....it's crazy

[@kang6914]

I was born in 1995 and this song still does something to me. Timeless 🔥

[@trentzelazny7728]

LOVE Public Enemy! Check out "Welcome to the Terrordome" by them. A personal favorite. Love to you guys. Thanks for doing what you do and for being here 🙏🙌❤️

[@garylagstrom3864]

I remember Mike Tyson used to train and walk out to the fight with this playing! I saw Public Enemy open for the Beastie Boys! It Was Lit 🔥

[@burnettsalmon8534]

One of the greats we need more of this

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

I'm going to tell you something ... I saw Public Enemy here in Kansas City, and ... I'm white. I was 10 years old when The Message hit the air waves, The Sugar Hill Gang, right there at the start of hip hop. I grew up in the hood and I loved ever fucking minute of it. I gained street smarts, that sixth sense you can only learn from growing up as a minority around many many dangers. I even have bi-racial kids but, if you're around me, I act myself, but I do know what time it is. This song is extremely powerful and a calling to African American's ... all my homies tell me this Song gets into their soul, their heart and is very uplifting for them. Asia's eyes and senses were wide open and I know she felt what I am trying to describe. This is an amazing song, and empowering. Top 10 of all time hip hop song, period ... hands down, stfu and listen.

[@Unchained74]

The song was already powerful, but when you add the video - it takes it to another level. I love that they showed New Orleans sign in this video @ 3:24.

[@EdPawley]

The first time I know of a hip hop group working with a metal band was Public Enemy and Anthrax, "Bring tha Noise," about 2 years after this one. They did it together, including a video. In the past, it's been ranked in the top 20 metal songs of all time. Worth a watch. Peace, ya'll.

[@CalixYukon]

Bring the noise 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@GaryCeaseGhostWolf]

First time was Run-DMC & Aerosmith, but Bring the Noise was Epic!!! 👍🏽✌🏽

[@seansimms8503]

Flav is the hype man...his job was to hype up the crowd.

[@40ozkingwest9]

I’m an old school head, PE was and is the news reporters of my time. They were so relevant, and they gave the NWA, Schoolly D fans a positive message. Chuck D was one of a few black leaders in the rap community at the time

[@papasilver78]

I was 11 years old when this came out. This is just as hard hitting today as it was then.

[@lennybeason1110]

Public Enemy was a must back then and now! Waiting for someone or group to pickup the torch!

[@scottreacher4620]

I just love Asia's reactions, like...what am I seeing?? Sending love to the fam from the East Coast. I also suggest Jump Around by House of Pain. My imaginary girlfriend jammed to this back in the day.

[@suemiller2522]

What a strange coincidence - I used to jam to this for my imaginary boyfriend.

[@scottreacher4620]

@@suemiller2522 Boy do we know how to par-tay in the imaginary world. 🕺

[@2436golden]

Speaking as someone from that era, the way you fight the power is not only by voting but also by your voice. When things are not going the way they should or someone is not delivering what they promised, you use your voice and make noise and refused to be silenced. Do not step back but step up in solidarity with others, as one voice.

[@hassongordon1249]

This wasn't filmed in their neighborhood. PE is from Long Island, NY and this was filmed in Brooklyn, NY (Bedstuy) as part of Spike Lee's Do Tha Right Thing Movie (Soundtrack cut).

[@timgammon5650]

Love the fact that a hip hop group made one the most rock n roll songs ever!!!!!

[@jordansane6404]

Flav had his issues but people have to realize what he meant to PE. He was the clown prince of rap. He bridged the gap between the block party origins and the militant present. He was the perfect partner for Chuck who was, and is, the greatest voice in hip hop. PE was perfection: Chuck had the voice, Flav had the wild, X had the beats and the tables, S1Ws had the march. Rap was dangerous in the 80s and they scared authority. Full effect, PE forever.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Was on the soundtrack in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing". Love this era of hip hop. Like "Heavy D and the Boys, "Now that we Found Love ". Started in the Bronx of my childhood. Memories.

[@elizabethdemerie13]

Got to see PE play on the lawn of hostra University they grew up in the next town from me.....amazing still love them....I was in 9th grade and cut school to be there ♥️

[@jesuswilljudge7296]

I'm from Central Islip, not far from you..

[@dee65cee53]

Exit 21 Roosevelt, LI

[@HappierNowe]

We all LOVED public enemy as kids.

[@Seldomtraveler]

Flav is actually a musician as well, at least 10 instruments

[@patman147]

One word for this song POWERFUL!

[@Seldomtraveler]

This was soundtrack to do the right thing - spike lee. Also backdrop to Yusef Hawkins, Eleanor bumpus murders by racist & police, plus other murders by police. The song didn’t exists in isolation. U have to listen to the album it takes a nations of millions to hold us back

[@fhat6924]

Now that you got a taste of Public Enemy, you need to check out the videos Cant Trust It and also Welcome to the Terrordome 2011

[@mariaarcorace7082]

Don't Believe the Hype and also Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, please. I wish more reactors would discover Public Enemy.

[@danielbalboni6804]

@@mariaarcorace7082 Rebel Without A Pause.....anything off of Nation's

[@mzondi1970]

I'm a 51-year-old white guy I grew up on East Coast and will always have a deep love for any of rap that came out of the East Coast if you get a chance listen to Eric b and rock him anything like paid in full you won't be disappointed

[@Seldomtraveler]

What u don’t realize is flav is a master musician, drums, keyboards, piano. He helped produce welcome to the terrordome for example.

[@marcusbibb8116]

The look on your ladies face, showed that she didn't quite understand that what they did back then, made us whatever it may be today. Hip hop was not welcomed in America as we see it today. And back then without them we had little else representing Black America. Not saying, she did connect, but she was looking at the crazed atmosphere. X

[@kaibricturner8836]

That’s the jam! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏾

[@johnlooney2319]

Bj hit the nail on the head. This is about empowerment and using rap as a avenue for political change..... Still love this song.

[@CalixYukon]

FLAVA FLAVVV! Thanks for this reaction, this was the first hip hop \ rap album I owned.

[@marisagettas]

I had this on cassette! Again, you got great taste in music @CalixYukon!!

[@chrisgreen177]

I was born in 1971. Growing up in the 70's, we had The Sugar Hill Gang, then in the 80's rap took off and it was informing 'black' people of what was going on throughout all of America when it came to mis and maltreatment of black folks. These brothers did their homework on the information too. Their lyrics is what 'Woke' us up as to to what was going on. I'm not talking about the 'Woke' of today, because the term was hijacked and made something totally different than what it meant back then. Then the whole rap game was hijacked in 2011-2015 to promote violence and to influence young black men into doing dumb stuff and filling the NEW 'Privately Owned Prisons'. Conscious rappers do not get 'record deals' nowadays. It's only the 'Drill' rappers and rappers who are willing to sell their souls and destroy their communities.

[@Officialupc]

Public Enemy : Back Steel in the Hour of Chaos

[@dolandblanford4641]

Rolling Stone magazine 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Fight The Power is number 2.

[@JustbeingCed]

What's crazy about this is that I was four years old in 1989. Now I look at this video and it's more powerful than it was in 1989.

[@DevaeDolley]

Vote for the same people that's not helping your situation. Got it

[@drittttt]

Rock and Roll HOF members!! Rush went in the same year, and it was crazy to see Flava Flave dancing his ass off when Rush was playing. Great night,2014.

[@rik6696]

I listened to Chuck D do a podcast for BBC Radio 6 about The Clash and he was saying that he modelled Public Enemy as a Hip Hop Version of the Clash. Public Enemy were just continuing in America what The Clash started in Europe.

[@lisamarcelle4416]

Hip hop always was to express our voices…..young brother and sista HELLO from Brooklyn

[@sorensmith9873]

Flav certainly did his own thing, with and without PE....did headline his own hit PE song, take a listen 911 is a Joke, off the album Fear of a Black Planet which is one of the greatest rap albums ever

[@rover215]

My favorite hip hop group (& voice in rap history- Chuck D)! Public Enemy didn't write about being rich, buying car, getting women- their songs had a global message; self respect, shone light on corruption, oppression, and inequality.

[@bovie0000]

1988 89 I used to blast this. I had my restaurant hat african necklace public enemy shirt.......Jesus I looked ridiculous!! But I felt it! Chuck spoke to me! I met him and Flave many years later at Stubs in austin when austin was good.

[@situationsixtynine8743]

Hip Hop had a huge effect towards changing Us society, back in those days rappers were activists 🔥

[@user-we7ih9tt9y]

I love Public Enemy. They had something to say, more than that,they were speaking about racial injustice

[@IldefonsJr33]

I grew up in this era, was 20. Coming from listening to Run Dmc, grandmaster flash, divine sounds.. the message did not felt nor carried the separation in language that this one did. Just the name of the group alone, made me think, then..just like the song American Pie, when the music “rock and roll” died, 1959.. I always felt, that 1989,, 20 yrs from 59,,, rap died too.. after, Ice T with the cop killing song,, and explicit language sexual type of dirty music that came after.. just changed the real fun innocence, of the type of music we loved and had fun to listen to… never like this group. But did like the talent,, and my Brooklyn roots from 80’s.. 🇵🇷🇺🇸✌️

[@elizabethdemerie13]

The guys dancing in the back in military coats are the S1Ws.. .such a memory

[@BadgerBJJ]

To me… this is one of the best punk songs of all time. Ranks up there with Dead Kennedy’s and Rage Against the Machine.

[@gvehar]

Flavor Flav was the main rapper on only a few songs, but one of them was a classic, 911 is a Joke. That should be the next PE video.

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

This song means everything surrounding your life. If your life is street level, you don't let MF's choke you out like George Floyd, you fight back, if you can. If you're at a shitty ass job, don't let MF's disrespect you, if you're in school, you don't let MF's make you 2nd class, if ypu made it out of the hood, into a good job, education, even at that level, you don't let MF's do you wrong. I have bi-racial kids and I watch them, even today get treated differently. Fight the Power is about standing up for yourself, individually or, as a movement, a community. I can only speak from the side lines because I'm a white boy but I did grow up as a minority and I know what it's like to a certain degree. Even as a kid, all my homies, I saw what they had to go thru and what they had to deal with. This song is a message to the African Community ... it's more than that, it's a calling .... you gotta fight the power.

[@Hansgruber1981]

still love this song

[@alexthewombat6781]

It’s hard for me to relate to the feelings all you old timers have listening to this but at 19 years old, it’s nice to look back at the hip-hop and other genres of music from my parents generation. The music feels much more genuine than todays

[@JeffreyWJeffJones]

What Flava is is the best hype man in music history. Those are chucks words

[@timfoley332]

You gotta see Spike Lee's movie Do the right thing. This song was a major part of that. Also someone already said you should hear the Isley Brothers song of the same name. It's da joint

[@MrLilhauughh]

Perspective is something Chuck D just never understood. Back when John Wayne and Elvis were starring in films, how many actors of color actually existed in the movie industry? If the black community has roughly always been 13% of the population, how many actually broke barriers to become an actor? ALso, regardless of how big of a star those two were, Wayne and Presley, Hollywood casted roles. This is the same Hollywood who covers Black Panthers face for the movie posters in China or makes the black actor from the FOrce Awakens tiny and at the back of the posters in China as well. I never thought about how I was embracing a particular culture as a milky white boy in the late 80's listening to Luke Skyywalker and Public Enemy. I was celebrating the greatest era of rap music.

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

Watch Asia ..... watch her closely ... this song hit her and got into head, heart and soul. You can see her demeanor and body language, facial expression change almost immediately ..... and that's the magic of this song. Very very few songs in hip hop instantly give you a reminder, the awareness that shit aint right for the black community, that it's a constant fight and struggle. This shit opened her eyes, literally ... look at them ... WIDE THE FUCK OPEN ... go back and compare her expression in the other songs she listens to. It's not as profound as how this song caught her attention. I love it. Very powerful song. Flavor Flav where's those clocks to let others now, he knows "what time it is." .... he knows you gotta fight the power.

[@Clever01010]

😄😆 Asia's looking at the video like someone's about to get shot wile BJ's Dancing. Lmfao!😂👌

[@magusodonllout332]

as a white man that played guitar and was raised on metal chuck and Public enemey along with NWA was so the best Rap at the time and aligned with my point of view

[@martymar1964]

Flavor Flav is the greatest hype man in the history of hiphop.

[@illcryst]

Most influential band of all time, not a single musician in the 80s, 90s, 2000s wouldn't put chuck d and public enemy on their list of major inspirations.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

I went to a PE concert in Wellington New zealand back in the 80s. Me and my friend were the only white boys there lol. Chuck D looked right up at us in the second floor as if he thought "what are those 2 white boys doing here ?" Lol nah. The next day on the street on a Sunday we were heading to McDs to cure our hangover and we saw Flava Flav just walking along the street, I went up to him and said "yo Flav wassup?" and he shook my hand and was super friendly. I didn't wash my hand for a day or so haha. I didn't have a cell phone camera back then so couldn't get a selfie.

[@fareedmuhammad6959]

This was also a real rally, Most of these Brothers were members the Nation of Islam in the Mosque#7 in New York

[@terryconnelly484]

Went tO college at Virginia tech saw them in 87 at Roanoke Virginia.. Me and my friend just 2 white boys in the whole stadium it was excellent....EU, kid n play, digital underground, and others

[@chillhard430]

She's amazed that they speak clearly and not about killin, money, cars & hoes like today's rap.

[@richardsingh5827]

This is a great song

[@MikeyRumi180]

Jesus...lol. Black people who don't know PE???? That is crazy right there. It should be required listening for ALL Blacks. Simple as that. On it since 1984...and I ain't even black. lol.

[@brians2869]

Have been pe since the eighties... there is a crossover factor with punk and old rock boys... it's hard

[@stoteles2]

I love Public Enemy...but to be honest, Elvis wasn't racist, Chuck D later admitted that too...Peace❤

[@Rob954ever]

Public Enemy is THEE GREATEST Rap group of all time. There are many greats from the 1st wave of rap from that generation. But PE was the most innovative. They were like metal to me. It sounded honest...hard... angry. And the The Bomb Squad as a production team, gave them that bumpin' HARD sound. PE, Rakim, The Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang are on my Mount Rushmore.😎🙌🏻

[@ninabirdsong9910]

That line about John Wayne cracks me up... he was a big racist.

[@sigscorpion9275]

Lots of racist people. To bad they didn't call out the ones that were still alive in 1989. Seems like a bitch azz move to call out 2 men that have been long dead

[@mahlonwilliams1337]

Flav is the greatest hype man eve

[@mattjohn4731]

Fighting the power of greed, morbid wealth, racism, lies, pollution and colonialist US imperialism!!

[@bushmawstah1133]

Yall definitely need the video for this one

[@the.i.p.address]

Who had more power than Chuck D in their lyrics and voice? Easy...NOBODY!

[@zora5424]

Flavor Flav was the Hype Man of the group!!! This group was speaking Poectic Justice!!! What their speaking about still goes on today alot of injustice and racism in this country so their saying " DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE!!!'

[@JR-ub3ve]

She is amazing what she's looking at but she's young

[@edwardthayer9386]

Flav was super high! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jefharper3954]

Hall of Fame song from a Hall of Fame soundtrack, from a Hall of Fame film.

[@burnaccount0019]

An act who sample 100% of the music they release, has no place in accusing other artists of stealing other people's music, when those artists at least played their own instruments.

[@GJH1010]

I saw them open for RUN DMC in 1988 or 89

[@mathewkelly9968]

Geez im getting old this song came out when I was in grade 6 , love P.E.

[@travis4863]

When radio was the internet. D is a hero

[@h.williams5808]

She has to understand Flav, and what was happening at that time in the world and hip hop.. Damn, good days.. every group or m.c was different..

[@funkfixx]

I often question if these reactors are making a true statement as not having seen a video, However on ol girls face she is locked in with amazement. Asia's face is telling the truth.