Our First Time Hearing Public Enemy - Can't Truss It (Reaction Video) 

Their message was so strong that Public Enemy was banned from basically everything mainstream. Let that sink in.

This is the type of music that guides a culture. Even the schools won’t show and teach you about our history the way some of our greatest emcees can

6 and 7??? Public enemy??? I get it. You all are from the era rapping about Mercedes Benz while driving a Kia sol.

So sad these young people don't get revolutionary music. Polluted by garbage on today's airwaves.

It's not a dance record! It's a knowledge song, it's about the lyrics!!!

There's no way you can listen to that song even with the lyrics showing and understand it to its fullest. That song was a 10/10 when it came out and still live!

Did this dude just call Chuck D wack?? BOO THIS MAN!!

Did he just say "nobody cares about the message? You just have to rhyme?" Really?

The video is a comparison of chattel slavery and modern day industrial settings

The song isn’t trying to make your head bobble it’s about the message in the song.

One of my fav songs of them , musicly . That high tuned pitch and the drums , the way its incorp and flows is great

It should always be about the message & not the rhyme the message was our code back then.✌🏽

Chuck D is the most respected Emcee in Hip Hop.

I just want to say every song doesn't have to be a club banger especially if it has a message that needs to be heard. Back then you had more variety and not everyone sounding the same over the same type of beat.

Some cats just don't understand real Hip Hop, this aint mumble rap and this aint Strip Hop

Back then we had variety. Club Emcees Dance Emcees Gangsta Emcees Conscience Emcees Pop Emcees Word play Emcees

10 out of 10 Knowledge ,Wisdom and Understand = Public Enemy ( Black CNN )

The flow was perfect for the beat And this particular flow made you wanna rewind and go “What did he say again” It’s a hard message but it was delivered on point and pulled you in!!!

It made my day y'all finally got to Public Enemy, yes, thank you. After about 1,234 requests, finally. I was hoping for "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos", but "Can't Truss It" will do. I look at it like this, how old is the world and I managed to exist at the same time as Public Enemy. Not rhyming, you must not been paying attention, Chuck D rhymed the whole time. Smh The Bomb Squad is top notch production team listen to Ice Cube's album Amerikkka's Most Wanted. Wow listen to Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos next.

The message is very deep. I give this song 9

As a white kid growing up listening to rock and metal in the 80s, I was introduced to Public Enemy hearing Bring the Noise with Anthrax. Since then, PE has been my go to hype music ever since. Chuck D is legitimately one of the greatest and most powerful vocalist and poets in music history. Whether you agree or disagree with his words, you can't deny the message, power, emotion and soul behind his voice. Greatest respect! Check out Public Enemy and Brother Ali - Get Up Stand Up #ChuckDLegend

I get what's being said, but hip hop is deeper than the rhyme. It starts with the beat, that's why an r&b song can be hip hop, it's beyond rap. Chuck didn't always rhyme but he is 1 of the most influential and noticeable voices ever in hip hop, and it set Public Enemy apart cause back then almost everybody respectively did their own thing. To be honest, most times especially with youth they get lost in the agenda when the lyrics are to complex and the more deciphering needed so Chuck had a simple delivery where you gonna get the message.

Best rap group of all time‼️

ya'll rap generation today don't understand the knowledge back in the 80's the rappers was putting out and how important it was for the black community for us to make it through our struggles because the mc's was kickin knowledge and dropping science in the lyrics which was important and the beats was hyping us up as well.

"There's too many words!"

Chuck D was and still probably is my all time favorite rapper. I was a metal head in the basement and a hip hop head in the street when I grew up in BK. I always thought he could cross over to metal with that voice and he did!

One thing I find hilarious about so many Rap Fans is that it's almost impossible to understand wtf they're even saying 😂😂😂 When people talk in Text Speak you know intelligence is never going to be an issue

Public Enemy are the GOAT!!

This generation hasn't had a MLK, Emmet Till or Rodney King event to understand that not much has changed in 400 years so they don't get how important Revolutionary rap was and is. Emcees spoke out in the 90s against public figures, especially politicians. Trump would absolutely be destroyed by PE, Ice Cube or KRS1.

50 year old man from Funland here. This was my first lp I bought. Didn¨t understand all the lyrics, but I felt the message as a teen. World is fucked up and PE made me a humanist and a communist. Thanks ChuckD. You made me a better person!

He's listening for a bop, not being a lyrical genius, and his flow is untouched. The young generation, just listening for i am not sure what

The images that are being reenacted connect to what Chuck D is rhyming about. This is conscious/revolutionary hip-hop and Public Enemy, one of the most important hip-hop groups of all time, were the leaders during their peak run. With PE it's always good to check out the lyrics while reacting to their videos. The last image you see in the video is the portrayal of the infamous Rodney King beating by racist cops (the same year this dropped) and a Black man being lynched during the slavery era. Heavy stuff, not just head bopping flexing. You should def. check out more P.E.: "Rebel Without A Pause," "Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos," "Fight The Power," "911 Is A Joke," and "Shut Em Down" Pete Rock remix. It's going to blow your mind, trust.

no one cares about the message.. i’m with the message- smh y'all all over the place confused

Public Enemy Makes Art!!!

You gotta pay attention the message in the video and the song.. this song is 10

Bring Justo back

And THIS is why we're doomed.

Juice might be a nice guy, but he has terrible taste in music. Bring back Justo, please.

“Bass in your face, not an 8 track” 🤌

These two are great examples of whats wrong with todays youth! Maybe when u guys get older u will understand better 🙏🏿

Black steel in the hour of chaos

Crazy rhymes ain't just about punch lines. Every rhyme don't always rhyme at the end of the bar.

I'm white, be 54 next month. This was NEW Public Enemy. We listened to them starting around 87. They got biiiigggg when Fight the Power was on the "Do the Right Thing" movie soundtrack. Check out more and the movie "Do the Right Thing"

Dude picked it up quick! The visuals matched the story.

Public enemy was on another level back then . When it comes to consciousness rap no one can touch them except boogie down productions, x clan, tribe called quest. Today there’s no conscious rap only trash of booty shaking, drugs and killing each other

I would of thought you'd at least say it was a 8. As a engineer, those comments were very surprising

Sick! Y’all are back! Welcome back, boys, great to see some new content but, more importantly, even better to know y’all are in good health. 🙏

Cam at the least understood and caught the connection between the slavery, today's police brutality and workplace harassment. The other cat was totally lost.

Do "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"

This song is not meant to make your head bob, it' s meant to make you raise your fist.

Go and listen to the rest of Public Enemy catalog. You don't have to do a reaction...just listen to their message. It will change your point of view.

respect though - yall being honest

This was produced by The Bomb Squad one of the most famous group of Producers, Engineers , and beat makers in Hip Hop history.

I am White,.. and I Give, THIS,.. A TEN, 10…,💯 ALL The Way Around The Board..! What If You We're In Shackles, And a Slave, Getting Whipped..! You Would Give It A TEN,. THEN..!!!

The factory is the modern plantation

Wtf this was a highly disappointing review but I gotta respect it. Chuck murdered this shhh

"Wherever you are?...and Whoever you are?...nobody got there All By Themselves. (including these two brothers) Think about it.

If you like this song and video, check out another one of their classic songs and video Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos.

CONTEXT- This was- at least in part- a reaction to the Rodney King beating. It was also the #1 video on YoMTv Raps the year it came out.

Respect Malcolm X on the intro tho

Do a reaction to Public Enemy song....Fight The Power

New dude need to take this song more serious Damn the rhyme

Ayyyye I’ve caught some new shit y’all the shit bruh keep it coming

Lyrical content and message 10..That's what Chuck was going for.

6 or 7? Wow. This is pure social commentary. You gotta take time to think about his allusions and then it'll hit 10x harder. I mean, it ain't cruisin the blvd music but it's on a level that hasn't been seen or heard in a long time.

GEN X IN THE BUILDING. EDUCATE AND SHARE.

Yes sir...Check out Ice Cube "Who got the Camera"....

Eightball and MJG- For Real

Flav is showing you someone who is very important and became more popular in the mainstream than the messages. Let that sink in…

I don't know what "flow" youngbloods were looking for. But 6 and 7? "Can't Truss It" is a solid 9 in my Hit Parade

427 to the year, do you understand, that's why it's hard for a black to love the land...

Sorry, but Public Enemy is a 10. The voice of Chuck D is one of the best rappers underrated. This song is over 30 years old. Trust me, you guys, we aren't listening to your music your music 30 years from now. Listen back in the day, rappers were about being different genre's fun romance partying alpha males Public Enemy was about social consciousness. This was the era of great rappers that didn't need. to curse and have misogyny or bragging about money. These are the pioneers know your history. Even my mother, a baby boomer, loves public Enemy, and if you have music that you can enjoy with your parents, it's phenomenal.

PE in full effect

I respect you all, i love PE. I get what you saying.

Brother Malcolm, Dr. King, ...Aunt Rosa? I am so, so sorry.

Y'all didn't see Pinky from Friday in the video. Cliffton Powell

There rating of this song gets a 3.5, the Song a 10

Just once in videos or movies, I'd like to see blacks fighting back more. I'd like to see it even more in real life.

its bridging the times/era together. And west coast beat 💥

It's that y'all just been affected by today's music. Chuck D hit hard. Listen to black steel.

Man these young dudes missed the whole point smh

Reading the comments, I'm guessing ya'll didn't care for P.E. next...

He was definitely rhyming. Maybe the written format threw you off

Was mostly a punk or rock boy... Always liked PE

Everything in this video goes over the heads of the YOUNG and USELESS of today, the point of Public Enemy's message in this video was PE's interpretation of the slave trade and showed how nothing has changed and were ( blacks ) are still on the plantation in their place of employment, iis not about a F**ckin flow Chuck's voice alone was always a difference maker f*uck a flow or saying something catchy, listening to the youth give their opinions on anything hip hop based from my generation further illustrates how they know nothing about the music and further contubutes to the the destruction of this once great artform, at the other understood the context of the lyrics video gets a 10 from me PE for life.

Smh this youngin just said Chuck D wasn’t saying anything. Clearly it went over your head. I hate sounding like “get off my lawn” but to say nobody cares about the message!!! It’s a clear sign that you know absolutely nothing about HipHop, it’s origins or more importantly you been brainwashed by this current crop of rap futility that everything needs to sound the same. HipHop 101… it has no formula. 80/90s no one did the same thing which is why it was great music. Black Sheep wasn’t PE wasn’t Queen La wasn’t Rob Base wasn’t Nas wasn’t Freestyle Fellowship wasn’t De La wasn’t MC Lyte wasn’t LOX wasn’t Hammer etc. There’s “always” room for a message in HipHop, subliminal or right in your face. “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 set the bar. NWA had a different message. HipHop never wrapped messages in a tiny little box for you to easily digest it. Did you even notice the baby was mixed? Smh. This literally was a 400 year history lesson in a 6 minute video and he gave it a 6

yo. "by the time i get to arizona" caused enough controversy to have a feature on "entertainment tonight". sen. john mc cain even weighed in... the video features a politician being car bombed.

A 6 & 7??

All I have too say "Every Brother aint a brother because of color"...

You Brothers did a great job rating this "Can't Truss It" song and video! I appreciate that you appreciated Public Enemy's message! Great, fair-minded music analysis!

Think of PE as Malcolm X or Farrakahn spittin'. Anti establishment rap.

*WHY THEY OMIT THE HANGING SCENE WITH THE ALBUM COVER oof 😖* thats a important part of the story. Judging by the thumb i didnt think you used ANY of the video

The song is like a 7. its not great. But PE made a real statement with this.

I think the brother on the right needs to.1.c pay closer attention to the video cause he missed half the message in the song. 2. His giving the video a 6 cause he didn't like the flow is the stupidest non intellectual reasoning I've heard in a long time. We're doomed as a people if this is the future.

Again this was real hiphop, unlike the intro you use and the garbage people listen to nowadays, I think since 2009 when drake came out, rap has been garbage

If you are looking to ‘feel good,.’ This Is Not For You. It makes me sad for our youth; they don't get it…and that's our fault. We are lost.

You cancelled.

It's already a given...ChuckD is one of the rap masters! And I'm 26 and know that...😂 this is fake...they heard this song before

That dude on the right swears he is spitting game. You out of you league right here. It's Public Enemy fool bow down. It Ain't a pop group. It's not pretend hiphop. Who you gonna grade next genius, Prince? The Stones? Bob Marley? Man sit down you sound foolish.

I wonder if they still calling ODB trash, sad.