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Public Enemy...The Most Dangerous Group In The World
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Enemy
Public Enemy YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/publicenemy/featured
Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff & The S1Ws
1985–1987: Formation And Early Years
Public Enemy was formed in 1985 by Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D) and William Drayton (Flavor Flav), who met at Long Island's Adelphi University in the mid-1980s. Developing his talents as an MC with Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record "Check Out the Radio", backed by "Lies", a social commentary—both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run–D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local MC who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene. This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D's songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled. Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Ali Hafezi and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song "Public Enemy Number One" Rubin had heard from Andre "Doctor Dre" Brown.
According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, "Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth. Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group's Minister of Information. With the addition of Flavor Flav and another local mobile DJ named Terminator X, the group Public Enemy was born". According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, "represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we're not third-world people, we're first-world people; we're the original people". Hank Shocklee came up with the name Public Enemy based on "underdog love and their developing politics" and the idea from Def Jam staffer Bill Stephney following the Howard Beach racial incident, Bernhard Goetz, and the death of Michael Stewart: "The Black man is definitely the public enemy."
Public Enemy started out as opening act for The Beastie Boys during the latter's Licensed To Ill popularity, and in 1987 released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show.
Public Enemy Full Album Playlists
1987: Yo! Bum Rush The Show
1988: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
1989: Fear Of A Black Planet
1991: Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black
1994: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age
1996: Autobiography Of Mistachuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaGpBoaeWI
1999: There's A Poison Goin' On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky49gonVZ7c
2002: Revolverlution
2005: New Whirl Odor
2006: Rebirth Of A Nation
2007: How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
2012: Most Of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamp
2012: The Evil Empire Of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxY6ao4EM2s
2015: Man Plans God Laughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZE9jtWcT38
2017: Nothing Is Quick In The Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06P0LMQvzs
2021: What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
Public Enemy YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/publicenemy/featured
Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff & The S1Ws
1985–1987: Formation And Early Years
Public Enemy was formed in 1985 by Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D) and William Drayton (Flavor Flav), who met at Long Island's Adelphi University in the mid-1980s. Developing his talents as an MC with Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record "Check Out the Radio", backed by "Lies", a social commentary—both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run–D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local MC who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene. This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D's songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled. Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Ali Hafezi and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song "Public Enemy Number One" Rubin had heard from Andre "Doctor Dre" Brown.
According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, "Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth. Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group's Minister of Information. With the addition of Flavor Flav and another local mobile DJ named Terminator X, the group Public Enemy was born". According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, "represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we're not third-world people, we're first-world people; we're the original people". Hank Shocklee came up with the name Public Enemy based on "underdog love and their developing politics" and the idea from Def Jam staffer Bill Stephney following the Howard Beach racial incident, Bernhard Goetz, and the death of Michael Stewart: "The Black man is definitely the public enemy."
Public Enemy started out as opening act for The Beastie Boys during the latter's Licensed To Ill popularity, and in 1987 released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show.
Public Enemy Full Album Playlists
1987: Yo! Bum Rush The Show
1988: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
1989: Fear Of A Black Planet
1991: Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black
1994: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age
1996: Autobiography Of Mistachuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaGpBoaeWI1999: There's A Poison Goin' On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky49gonVZ7c2002: Revolverlution
2005: New Whirl Odor
2006: Rebirth Of A Nation
2007: How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
2012: Most Of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamp
2012: The Evil Empire Of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxY6ao4EM2s2015: Man Plans God Laughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZE9jtWcT382017: Nothing Is Quick In The Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06P0LMQvzs2021: What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
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