FIRST TIME HEARING Public Enemy - Can’t Truss It (REACTION) 

Public Enemy always gave me goose bumps....

Chuck D is one of the greatest rappers to ever live. A true GOAT. Flav was fun, but he was more of a hype man - like a pro wrestling manager. As a white suburban kid in the 80’s, Public Enemy’s messages influenced me deeply and helped me to form my world views. Views that I still hold today. They taught me all about the damage and pain caused by systemic racism, which had a positive effect on structuring my social values as a young man. These guys still resonate with me to this day.

"Bass in your face not an Eightrack" - what an absolute classic line in Hip Hop history.....love it! Some more 90's legends and legendary songs - The Roots "Respond/React" Gang Starr "Above the Couds" - featuring Inspecta Deck, The Fugees "Ready or Not", Outkast "Crumblin' Erb", Souls of Mischief "93 Til Infinity - loving your channel bro, truly - you are covering some epic music 110, with great comments - peace/

If more ppl learned from this band , all ppl could live together in peace.

Wore the hell out of this tape in my Walkman in 9th Grade 🔥

There are so many good Public Enemy songs. An easy way to decide what to check out is basically any of their songs with an official video. They do have way more good songs than they made videos for, but all the ones with videos are worth checking out for sure. One of the best groups ever.

"Getting me bruised on a Cruise" that is powerful, understated and comical all at once! Chuck D a fantastic lyricist.

I saw Public Enemy open up for the Beastie Boys when the Licensed to Ill tour Public Enemy had just put out their first album it was such a great show between them and the Beastie Boys here we are 40 some years later almost 35 and I still remember that concert

THAT song was beloved by my crew... when my crew was a bunch of Heavy Metal dudes! 💯 Heavy Metal and Punk Rock kids ADORED Public Enemy!!! 😎 Its the "Fuck THIS" attitude that hit us the same way "our" bands had been hitting us since '77. And all of us locked in IMMEDIATELY! 💯😎

❤ Chuck D = TOP lyricist, great beats backing the most important messages, I wish we could HEAR.

You just getting started on your dive into the PE rabbit hole. So many bangers, so many messages to be spread. Enjoy the ride young man.

Public Enemy songs you should give a listen to: By the time I get to Arizona, Welcome to the Terrordome ( listen to the original then check out the Fear 2011 version ), Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos, Shut 'Em Down, Burn Hollywood Burn feat. Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube.

This is an underrated record for them imo. FoBP gets its just recognition, but this record had some bangers!

For me it feels especially at this track that chuck is spitting his ryhmes and messages nonstop on a high energy level

One of the things that really pulled me in to Public Enemy was that it's clear that Chuck is well educated and his words spoke hard truths about our complicated history. The message was necessary then, and it's necessary now.

Chuck D is the hardest MC of all time, always rhyming the facts.

Public Enemy turned many rock fans to them cause there hard beats connected when rock got soft, Legends , epic albums Indeed 🤙

PE & other hip hop artists in the 90s spoke 100% facts, they were better teachers than our schools, and they trusted all their young listeners to listen and understand, even when it was hard to hear. I miss that.

Love this one. Had a big impact on me as a kid.

Yes Sir. Now you're learning dawg. This is why we say the new school is soft, no heart. James Brown said it best. "Talking loud, saying nothing". They only talk about their own... Black awareness is down today. Check out Public Enemy "Black Steel in the hour of chaos" , "Terminator X" , "Super agent" and by the time I get to Arizona " for starters..

Good take - keep listening and keep deep diving

YOUNG KING I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY YOUR REACTION U JUST EARNED A SUB FROM ME U MAKE AN OLD HEAD LIKE ME FEEL LIKE AS LONG AS THERE ARE YOUNG KINGS LIKE URSELF WHO ARE AWARE OF OUR HISTORY THERE MAY BE HOPE AFTERALL

Ahem public enemy was my favorite rap group in the 80s and 90s and in the year 3000 will still be my favorite rap group of all times I met Chuck D at a concert in my hometown of Jacksonville Florida in the 80s backstage my cousin was doing security and I asked him about getting on at Def Jam and told me to send a demo of course me and my peeps couldn't come together but I listen to Public Enemy almost every other day mostly it's nostalgia and it gets me crunk for work It takes a nation of millions and fear of a black planet are two of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time

PE used the word "Truss" because it's part of a ship l, ie slave ship. A cool play on words!

Public enemy was rap when rap taught a lesson..

This was the single/video off the album Apocalypse '91 the Enemy Strikes Black. PE's 3 album run with It Takes a Nation of Millions, Fear of a Black Planet, and Apocalypse is one of the best consecutive album runs in music history and definitely hip hop. That said, I didn't think it was as good as the prior two. FWIW, Bring the Noise with Anthtax was the album closer. Tracks to check out from this are: Lost at Birth/Rebirth, By the Time I Get to Arizona, Shur Em Down, A Letter to the NY Post, and Get the F* Outta Dodge.

P.E. Cold Chillin in Effect...P.E. is The Goat. Sadly there's no P.E. in this Disco/Hip Hop today. Yet though we live in what Rock n Roll went through in the 70's with Disco, what was created underneath that was Punk Rock. A rebellion is swelling in underground hip hop, a rebellion tired of the bulls hit Disco Glam/Hip Pop that sold sold out Hip Hop. I may be 48 but I'm excited to see these rebellious Hip Hop bands Strike Back against the willful dumb down of what has been inflicted upon Hip Hop.

for PE, focus on the It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back album. that is their clear masterpiece.

Back in the day... White friend: "Dude why you trippin today bro?" Me: "Sorry, Bryce, I've been listening to too much Public Enemy today" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Apocalypse 91, The Enemy Strikes Black is one of my favorite records ever. I was 10 when it hit stores. I got it for Christmas 1991. I'm a white 43 y/o male who grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. Aside from one or two other people, no one listened or cared about Public Enemy where I grew up. Fair enough. Chuck D is one of my idols. Chuck talked about things that I had no idea about. The video for Can't Truss It still gives me cold chills, what, 33 yrs later. Public Enemy is that group you want to listen to, sir. I tried turning people onto them and they said they don't have time for that political, straight forward history lesson rap. My bad, I was under the assumption you were into learning. It is what it is. Please make "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos" the next Public Enemy song you check out. The video version is good, but it cuts out a verse. The 6:24 long album version is the one you want.

Love this one! Sounds good on a boomin' system too.

Not sure what happened to Hip-Hop but, old school Hip-Hop needs to make a come back. It's was full of stories, history, conciousness, and fun. I miss those days. I don't care about if you have some WAP, selling drugs and murdering your brothers for the Benjamins...ish is WACK!

Dude, check out Prophets Of Rage! Its a supergroup with Chuck D, B Real from Cypress Hill, backed by the musicians from Rage Against The Machine.

The "Hot in the day, cold in the night" Chuck was referring to was the 100 day journey to Amerikkka shackled naked together under the decks of slave ships.

PE-Night of the Living Bassheads

OG ❤❤❤

Here is a political song or two for ya from Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk (celebrating black culture as well as Native Americans and all who stood up for what's right ) then the next song is Down Rodeo (pronounced ro-day-yo a rich white part of town in Cali ) but this song has powerful and shocking lyrics !

By the Time I get to Arizona is a cool PE song . Also check out the Gravediggaz with songs like Diary of a Madman , 1-800 Suicide , Nowhere to Run , Nowhere to Hide and more . They are basically the guys from Wu-Tang doing a Horrorcore record .

Yeah, Chuck and PE had us pretty angry back in the day.

Chuck D, Nate dog and cube best voices hip hop .Chucks an extra bass

Another Classic. 👍

Public E was so awesome in the day

Check out (Shutem Down) by PE original version. I feel you young Brah. Keep it going.

Beastie Boys got there to sign llcoolj and chuck d they them when the beastie boys where inducted into hall of fame

their production crew, the bomb squad (the shockley brothers), were critical to PE's brilliance--only the beastie boys had the same high quality beats and dense punk-inflected production. in fact, beasties and PE are very similar in production styles, if you listen closely.

Public Enemy ♥♥♥ Chuck D - Flavor Fav --> New Jack flavor Chuck D best teacher ever

This is a desert island song. As in if I was stranded on a desert island, and you only have 10 songs. This is there. Here come the drums/CONFUSION

Don’t Believe the Hype is also a great one 80s. Rap is the best rap some early 90s two but 80s rap is where it’s at. I grew up when all this stuff in the early 80s all the way through.

P.E 🔥

You’ve got to check out the song bring the noise by anthrax with public enemy it’s a great vid and one of the first times rap and rock bands were put together back in the 80’s

No way to make the pillars on the video block to be less visible

Check out Do You Wanna Go Our Way???

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💚C H U C K D💚

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Gotta check out ‘Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos’ it’s a masterpiece of storytelling!