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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..."
Public Enemy by KY Jelly July 24, 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.
public enemy by RockCity August 26, 2003

Public Enemy

The first political rap group. In the early days worked with the Bomb Squad and also worked with them on 'Revolverlution'.
Public Enemy 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..."
public enemy 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.
public enemy by Lover Boy August 28, 2003

Public Enemy

A crazy buncha nigs who know can string rhymes together better than anyone!
Man, Public Enemy is really a talented bunch. Especially because Flava Flav wears a GIANT FUCKING CLOCK.
Public Enemy by Tommy Wommy Womsters September 16, 2003