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Chuck D and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy at New Orleans Jazz Festival 2014

Public Enemy’s “Don’t Believe The Hype” appears on their sophomore album, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, released in 1988. Chuck D’s warning about blindly following the media and The Bomb Squad’s dense agitational noise truly personified the emcee’s famous quote about rap music being theContinue Reading

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Public Enemy’s “Can’t Truss It” is from their 1991 fourth album Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Back.  The group’s sound changed out of necessity for this album because the original productions were stolen. The Bomb Squad, Gary G Whiz and The Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk gave the group funk-oriented sonicsContinue Reading

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Public Enemy (@publicenemy) Should Flavor Flav put his dislike of Bernie Sanders to the side and perform with the rest of Public Enemy at one of his rallies because as Chuck D has said it’s “not really an endorsement but aContinue Reading

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[youtube id=”ap0lCHfr7NA”]Flavor Flav’s “Unga Bunga Bunga” came from his 2006 self-titled solo album. The Public Enemy hype man had worked on his solo music for seven years releasing the first single, “Hot 1” in 1999. At the time of the album’s release Flavor Flav was popular because of the realityContinue Reading

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