Public Enemy
Public Enemy
Award-winning, multi-platinum and influential hip-hop outfit formed in 1982 and featuring Chuck D, Flava Flav, DJ Lord, Professor Griff and the S1Ws.
The band helped give hip-hop and the Def Jam label an identity crossing over to the mainstream with the best-selling "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back" in 1988, as well as a stream of rock-rap crossovers such as "Bring The Noise", "Public Enemy #1", "Yo Gonna Git Yours", "Black Steel", "Shut Em Down", "Fight The Power", "Rebel Without A Pause" and "Can't Truss It".
They released their debut album, "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" in 1987, followed by the multi-platinum-selling: "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" (1988), "Fear of a Black Planet" (1990), "Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black" (1991), "Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age" (1994), "There's a Poison Goin' On" (1999), "Revolverlution" (2002), "New Whirl Odor" (2005), "How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???" (2007), "The Evil Empire of Everything" (2012), "Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp" (2012), "Man Plans God Laughs" (2015), "Nothing Is Quick in the Desert" (2017), plus 2020's: "What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?".
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Covered By
- Brass Against
Has Worked With
- Rick Rubin
- Anthrax
- Jazzie B
- Pete Rock
- The Nextmen
- Will Calhoun
Related
- Ice Cube
