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Do You Wanna Go Our Way??? - Public Enemy



     
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Now What Sound Of My DJ Cuts
Terminator's Back On Some Ol' Fools Track
Takes A Nation Of Sellouts To Keep Us Back
Flippin Disco Raps Used To Be Whack
Now What You Hear Is What You Lack
Take A Lil Bit Of This A Lil Bit Of Dat
Who Dropped The Bomb On Hip Hop
Who Got Biggie And Who Shot Tupac
What's Forgot / Ain't No Eazy, No Scott Larock
Now What's Rap Gotta Do Wit What You Got
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Is That The Way The Story Goes
85% Believing All The Videos
God Knows / Who Controls The Radios
Some People Chose The Road To Be Hoes
And So I Rose / In The Middle Of All The Woes
And Def Jam / Negroes Turnin Up Their Nose
There's One Way In No Way Out

No Doubt The Body Count
Gettin Headz Checkin Out
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This DownTime To Make Life Shine Again Like Glass
Gotta Make It Shine Like Glass
Outraged Against The Scene
Proofread The Script
Flipped It Back So I'm Back In Gang Green
We Interrupt This Routine I Had A Dream
Da Clean Protein Smacked The Gangsta Lean
Between The Triple Team
Wiped Em Out Like A Drought
Damn I'm Raps Tetracycline
Them Lips Foretold These Apocalypse
Everything Had A Shot
And Got Hit Wit Bullshit
Twisted Politics Tricks I Couldn't Get Wit
As One Quits Another Nitwit Hits
All The Way Crazy, Shady
World Turned Upside Down
I Put It Down
Why Destroy What You Love
Look Around
Surrounded By Chalk Marks On The Ground
Where The Lost Got Found
Why It All Come Tumblin Down
Why He And She Gotta Die
Now How Dat SoundDo You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This DownOn & On To The Break A Dawn
Some The 100 Meter Dash I'm The Marathon
Been Around A Long Time
But The Rhyme The Same
Sound Remains Insane
Exchange The Reign
Ain't That Somethin
Figure I Smashed The Pumpkin
So I Parallel The Brains Of Cobain
Show No Shame Like The Pain Of Kane
Gettin Madd Opposition Hip To The Game
It's That Gran Ol' PE Ammo
Different Time Different Channel
Funky Piano
Here To Witness Get On Up With A Quickness
S1's In The House
Wit The Thickness That Get Dis
1 2 3 4 5 Attackin They Frat
Griff Is Back Got 5 On It Black
The Track Got X On The Decks
Terminators Back Cause A Dat Is Whack
On The 1 And 2
Yeah Go Flavor
PE Hit The Road Gettin Set To Explode
Fight The Power For Peace
Can't Forget The War Mode
Overload
There She Blows
Here We Go
Now You Know
Damn Another AlamoDo You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
Do You Wanna Go Our Way
This The Way We Puttin This Down
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Public Enemy, also known as P.E., is a seminal Golden Age era Hip-Hop group known for their densely layered production and politically charged lyrics demonstrating their interest in the concerns of the African American community.

PE formed in Long Island, New York, in 1982 around a WBAU radio show as Spectrum City. After one less-than-successful single, they regrouped and signed to the still developing Def Jam record label after Rick Rubin heard Chuck D freestyling on a demo. Their debut, ‘Yo! Bum Rush The Show’, was released in 1987 to mild critical acclaim, although the Hip-Hop climate changed dramatically due to sampling during the time of release. As a response, they went on to release the revolutionary ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’.

Slightly less militant than their previous releases Public Enemy’s, ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ was officially recognised as being the most successful and influential of the Public Enemy recordings when, in 2004, it became one of 50 recordings, chosen that year by the Library of Congress, to be added to the National Recording Registry. Sales-wise it was the most successful of any of their albums to date. It included the powerful and controversial singles ‘911 is a Joke’ (which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community), and ‘Fight the Power’, which is considered by many to be the group’s premier self-describing anthem. The song is considered to be amongst the most popular and influential in Hip Hop history and was the theme song for Spike Lee’s landmark film ‘Do The Right Thing’.

Public Enemy are to be considered musical pioneers for a broad variety of reasons. For instance, Terminator X elevated DJing to a refined art. Some of his most innovative scratching tricks can be heard on the track ‘Rebel Without A Pause’. PE’s production team, ‘The Bomb Squad’, offered up a web of innovative samples and beats; critic Steven Thomas Earlewine declared that PE “brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concrète, via their [production] team, the Bomb Squad, creating a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before.”

PE revolutionized the rap world with their political, social and cultural consciousness. These themes became infused into skilled and poetic rhymes with jazzy backbeats. They are recognised as the first Hip Hop group to make extended world tours, leading to huge popularity and influence within the Hip Hop communities of Europe and Asia. They also changed the internet’s music distribution capability by being the first group to release MP3 albums, a format virtually unknown at the time.

Public Enemy, in keeping with their ‘pioneer’ status, also helped to form and define the so-called ‘crossover’ genre of music (heavy rock music spliced with hip hop) by collaborating with New York thrash metal outfit Anthrax in 1991. The single ‘Bring The Noise’ was a remarkable potpourri of semi-militant pro-black lyrics, grinding guitars and sporadic humour. The two bands, cemented by a mutual respect, and the personal friendship between Chuck D and his Anthrax counterpart Scott Ian, introduced a hitherto alien genre to rock fans.

During the seemingly unlikely tour of Anthrax and Public Enemy, Flavor Flav made his famous pronouncement onstage that “They said this tour would never happen” (heard on Anthrax’s Live: The Island Years CD). This has become something of legendary significance in both rock and rap circles. There is some justification for the theory that without this unlikely musical partnership, bands such as Rage Against The Machine and Linkin Park would not have existed, and the genres of rap rock, nu metal and their related offshoots might have never developed.

Members of Public Enemy

Chuck D
Real name: Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
Role: Group leader, lyricist, main vocalist, and artwork
Birthdate: August 1, 1960

Flavor Flav
Real name: William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.
Role: Lyricist, vocalist, hype-man, and comic relief.
Birthdate: March 16, 1959

Professor Griff
Real name: Richard Griffin
Role: Head of S1W, liaison between PE and S1W, road manager. Ensured that the chaotic Flavor Flav was available when needed. Occasional vocalist and/or producer, plays drums at live shows.
Birthdate: August 1, 1960 (the same as Chuck D)

Terminator X
Real name: Norman Rogers
Role: DJ, Producer
Birthdate: August 25, 1966

Dj Lord
Real name: Lord Aswod
Role: DJ, Producer

The following are a part of The Bomb Squad, the revolutionary production group which is closely associated with (and sometimes considered a part of) Public Enemy:

Hank Shocklee
Real name: Hank Boxley
Bill Stephany
Keith Shocklee
Eric “Vietnam” Sadler
Chuck D - often listed as a member of the Bomb Squad under the pseudonymn “Carl Ryder”, a shortened form of his real name.

The S1W’s are sometimes considered a part of Public Enemy, as well.

There are three other groups named Public Enemy:

2) The first Public Enemy, an Oi!/punk band formed in 1984 who released one LP album (England's Glory) and one 7 inch (Skinheads). This band was never white supremacist and has no connection to the "revived" Public Enemy:

3) White Power group from the UK, formed by Paul Burnley (of No Remorse). Released 3 CDs: “Paul Burnley Is The Real Public Enemy”, "There is only one..." and “Archives”.

4) Public Enemy was a Hardcore/Punk group from Tuscon, Arizona.

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