Asia's first time ever hearing Public Enemy "Fight The Power" Reaction | Asia and BJ 

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 🙃❤️

Chuck D has such an iconic voice

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.

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".

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.

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.

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

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. 🔥

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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.

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!?"

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 🙏🙌❤️

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 🔥

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

One of the greats we need more of this

I love her reaction on the Elvis and John Wayne line

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ♥️

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We all LOVED public enemy as kids.

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

That’s the jam! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏾

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

One word for this song POWERFUL!

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

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.

still love this song

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

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.

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

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

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.. 🇵🇷🇺🇸✌️

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Yall definitely need the video for this one

This is a great song

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

Love you guys ❤️💖

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.

Public Enemy : Back Steel in the Hour of Chaos

Great song united ✌

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

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

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.

LEGENDARY

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

I saw them open for RUN DMC in 1988 or 89

First! This song is fire and has a great message . Fight The Power!!!!! Can you guys do Girl Can't Help It by Journey? It's my favorite song by them and I think you guys would like it. Much Love

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.😎🙌🏻

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

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

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

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.

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

Flav was super high! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeahhhhhh bhoyyyyyyyy Epic! Thank you! Oh and reminds me to ask for House Party for a movie reaction (only the 1st one though) This kinda looks disturbing and almost trouble-making now, but back then it was sure needed to shake things up, the state of TV, Movies, Radio, Mags, etc it was at a time that needed a wake-up call and yep music became an even bigger outlet and together grouping of feelings and wishes, the big voice. Nice reaction! And nice chat about it at the end, yep!

I was 18 when this came out. In college.

When radio was the internet. D is a hero

Here for it.

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.

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.

That sonar ping. Purposeful.

Flav was and is insane

Listen to the album Fear of a Black Planet by PE

Cannot believe you never heard this... this song shook everything back then, it's truth scared many a folk... for others , we finally heard that bit o truth that wasn't allowed to be said so fckn clearly... guess your lucky in a sense... Love ya Chuck my man... "harder than you think" man hehe. Cheers all