Public Enemy

Public Enemy was the sign that hip-hop had exploded like a grenade. A rap group as abrasive, hardcore, and eloquent as a JFK speech, their music was one classic track after another: tense, multilayered, harmonically wild music. Chuck D declaims like a master preacher with foil Flavor Flav's voice darting around his. They've got the desperate energy of people fighting for their lives, and everything from their pumped-up rhetoric to the group's quasi-paramilitary organization to the sirens and sax squeals in nearly every track declares how urgent their mission is.

GL 5000: "Yo, put in some old school."
KY: "How bout some PE?"
GL 5000: "Now you're talkin..."

by KY Jelly July 8, 2005

public enemy

The only artists of the "hip-hop generation" who actually took the time to write something social. The thinking man's rap. Controversial rappers who on their worst day is 5000 times better than anyone else that every tried to rhyme a couple of lines.

by RockCity August 27, 2003

Public Enemy

The first political rap group. In the early days worked with the Bomb Squad and also worked with them on 'Revolverlution'.

"I guess 9-11 ain't no joke"

by Danny Peterson January 10, 2004

public enemy

A great rap group that once were produced by the famous Bomb Squad.

"Fear of a black Planet, huh? Yes, even almost 15 years later..."

by Ron Barr March 31, 2003

public enemy

Along with Run DMC, rap minus the pretentious 'gangsta' schtick. Therefore, rap was it should be.

Before the NWA and the fall of rap, there was the Public Enemy and all was well.

by Lover Boy August 28, 2003

Public Enemies

Best film of 2009 so far. It's about the life of John Dillinger, who was a notorious gangster in the late 1920s to the 1930s. The film features the extremely talented Johnny Depp, severely under-appreciated Christian Bale, and the talented and sexy Marion Cotillard.

Public Enemies is the greatest film of 2009 (so far).

by ☢_☢ August 14, 2009

Public Enemies

A movie which I think of as not just one of the best films of 2009, but hopefully will be remembered as one of the best films this decade. It's the greatest character-driven period piece since "There Will be Blood". It's about John Dillinger and his gang and their adventures what with the creation of the FBI.

Starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as FBI's Melvin Purvis. Extremely underrated.

"I have absolutely nothin' I wanna do in Indiana"
--Johhny Depp as John Dillinger in "Public Enemies"

by FiveStarGLOCKER September 15, 2009