Flavor Flav wears clocks *because* HE KNOWS WHAT TIME IT IS!

PE was fighting for rights 40 years ago with intelligent, deep lyrics that also just happens to be some of the best rap music of all time.

this video was directed by Spike Lee and this song was featured over the opening credits to the classic Do the right thing

i was 7 years old when this song came out. and i remember how this video made me feel so good and proud to be Black ✊🏾

First group to put Elvis on full blast

“Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos “ 😎

PE is the real deal on all fronts.

"Brothers Gonna Work It Out" is my favorite PE song.

Do you have to react to song and video "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos" by Public Enemy!

Chuck D from PE inducted the Beastie Boys into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. I LOVE PE!

Definitely check out By The Time I Get To Arizona.

React to "Welcome to the Terrordome" next.

Flavor Flav was asked about why he wears the clock and I think he said "cuz I always know what time it is" lmao You need to do Public Enemy #1. It is the first song they released and got the attention of EVERYONE. Especially Run DMC and Def Jam.

Gotta do "Bring the Noise" the original AND the one with Anthrax. Also "911 is a Joke"

There is a lot deeper meaning to "knowing what time it is"!

Flava Flav was the best hype man ever!!!! Facts 😎

Knowing "what time it is" means being aware of the situation.

Best concert I been to PE.. seen them about 3 times in Glasgow, Scotland. Def Jam Tour 1987 was amazing...with LL Cool J, Eric.B & Rakim, Public Enemy.

Public Enemy had so much heart

Chuck D. Said later he regretted that line about Elvis, check our In the Ghetto by Elvis, that will show you how Elvis feels... But it is true that Elvis became famous by copying the black people grew up with, and he got rich, but the black artists never got noticed

Im from new york.the greatest city in the world.wow you never been to new york.this song is legendary.word up son

The entire album is on fire

1989 was one of the best summers ever for me - a lot of memories out here on these Los Angeles streets with this song, rollin in them low riders - your question - Elvis was an entertainer that was being controlled by the industry just like an artiest today -he is known for being a raciest because he was successful singing black music - like Eminem today - back then a black artiest would make a song and make $200 off of it - Elvis would re-release the same song, sung by him and make $2,000,000 off of it because he was white and had a bigger plat form - but he was doing what he was told by the people in control of the money just like a employee or singer in a contract does today - I know for a fact that Elvis looked up to James Brown and James Brown had nothing but respect for Elvis - so if you like his music - go for it - there are more Elvis fans than Jay-Z fans believe it or not - trust me on that -

If U haven't already check out Can't Trust It by PE💜

Night of the Living Baseheads by PE is worth a reaction video!

I've never commented on a video. It warms my heart to see discovering the REAL hip hop. Everybody had to be different back then. All the new dudes just wanna ride a wave!!!

I first heard this in the opening credits to "Do The Right Thing" it was hard to pay attention to the lyrics, because of Rosie Perez.

Chuck D has a drafting degree from Adelphi University on Long Island. Public Enemy gets my vote for the smartest rap group of all time. I wish some new rappers would pick up that mantle. Being smart is cool.

P.E. has so many classics the best overall video is Can't Trust It, if you want the hardest song that's Black Steel, songs without a video my favorite song Rebel without a pause and Don't Believe the hype and you can't go wrong with Shut em down and Welcome to the Terrordome

Public Enemy "BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS"

Look it up, if you wonder....they rarely attacked someone that didn't deserve it.

Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader and also Paid in Full. I would highly recommend both. Rakim is an amazing lyricist.

Ck out the song by public enemy called ... she watch channel zero!! I'm pretty sure its one of the first ever mixtures of real heavy metal and real rap!!! Its the band slayers song with public enemy rapping.... slamming track !!!! All about girls watching soap operas.... every day... lol.... it's what made me love public enemy!!

Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos or Night of the Living Baseheads. PE's second album is truly the best hip hop album EVER!

always amazes me that Rock N Roll fans of every generation know and like their Rock History but young modern Hip Hop kids never bothered to listen and appreciate the Original Pioneers of this genre particularly since most 80s & 90s Rappers non-stop name-checked their Hip Hop Heroes out of respect and gratitude

I'm gonna recommend their song "911 is a Joke."

"Sound of the Funky Drummer".. reference to the 70s James Brown track Funky Drummer that's been used in a million hip hop songs.

P.E. brought mad conscienceness to hip hop. They were rapping about social issues and educating everyone on racism and black history. They were the MLK and Malcolm X of rap and just like those two great men they were killed. Not literally but with introduction of gangster rap.

Cause Flav was always "clockin' the time" boyeee!

Welcome to the Terrordome G

Public Enemy - He Got Game

I've lived in PA for the last, like, decade, but I'll always be a NY girl at heart ❤

Great reaction to an awesome song --- P.E. was always one of my favorite groups...and I still have their albums ("Yo Bum Rush the Show", "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back", "Fear Of A Black Planet" etc). And regarding the "Elvis Presley rumor about him being racist", the is 'No'. Apparently, the rumor started sometime in the 1960s where people were circulating the story of Elvis supposedly making racist remarks about Black people while in Boston --- but at that time, Elvis had never visited Boston. Then the rumor changed that he said it on a TV nighttime talk show... a show he had never been on. Anyway, everyone who knew him (including Black people) stood by Elvis and said that he has never made any sort of racist remarks about any race, and that, that was not the type of person he was. Bottom line, it was just one of those hoax rumors that went "viral" in the 1960s, but no one ever heard him say anything disparaging about any group of people. Anyway, you should check out one of Elvis's songs, "In The Ghetto" (the live version on stage). Whitney Houston's mother is one of the backup singers. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLWoZLeg18udnqs.html

one of the best songs form one of the best bands EVER . POWERFUL

Yo Ahmad I FWU even more than before now on 1000% Thanks For The New York Shoutout And Love Truly Appreciate It (Queens) FYI The Great Spike Lee Directed This Video That's Why It's So Epic And Public Enemy Got Classic Bangers Definitely Got React Too Nights Of The Living Baseheads,Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos & Can't Truss It Videos 🔥🔥🔥 And Rebel Without A Pause,Bring The Noise,Welcome To The Terrordome & Don't Believe The Hype, Once Again Thanks For The New York Love Your The Goat For That 😏😏❤ Ya Boy E

Miuzi Weighs A Ton! You won't regret it. So hard.

Love the skepticism - never heard of Elvis overt racism, but he definitely stole a musical style and filtered it through himself for gain. FF was the ultimate hype man he was just nuts.

Love to see young people step back to real hip hop like the Beasties and PE. Also, huge respect to listening to any music with a conscious. Its a deep cut, but check out Brothers Going to Work it out of off Fear of a Black Planet!! If you love deep layered sampling like on Paul's Boutique, you'll love it!

Real Hip Hop!

They said this is the most important rap song ever.

Nice shirt for Public Enemy.

That’s right Nephew,,, I love watching you taking time to learn the culture

This is PE's theme song. It's lost none of its power and relevance. If you want hear a great rap about New York City's spirit of unity, react to the Beastie Boy's "To The Five Boroughs". If you ever go to Manhattan, prepare to have your mind blown.

The Elvis quote is true. Definitely not fabricated. PE was such a powerful force in hip-hop. Chuck D was fierce. Flav was the perfect hypeman.

my boy pumped his fist, PE hit his soul heavy!!

I'm glad no one's wearing car emblems anymore, but listening to Public Enemy doesn't go out of style.

My favorite group in any genre ever...they need to get their for being the realist group ever....they wasn’t gangsta or the most positive group...they educated me about our history through hardcore music

I remember Mike Tyson used to train and walk out to the fight with this playing! I saw Public Enemy open for the Beastie Boys! It Was Lit 🔥

Hell yeah!

32 yrs ago !! I was 21!! Flavor Flav!!!

Terminator X to the edge of panic... dope

wearing a clock back then was a way of say: IM WOKE"..I KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS....everyone was rocking those clocks and African medians the PRO BLACK people i should say....

Check out 'Elvis Presley & The Black Community - That Echo Will Never Die' if you want to know the truth about Elvis

Spike Lee asked Chuck to write an anthem. Next day Chuck came back with Fight the Power

Your reactions are awesome, and I’m so glad you’re doing Public Enemy. BTW, they used to open for the Beastie Boys. In fact, they recently released a collaboration with the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. Like 3 months ago. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fa-RYJt43dTQnHU.html

public enemy still going strong, check out the new one 'public enemy number won feat. ad rock, Mike D & Run DMC'

Amazing Album ' it takes a nation

I Like the Isley Brothers version of Fight the Power. Me and my buddies jammed to that back in the 70's when we were in high school. You should check it out. I'm pretty sure you'd dig it.

I wouldn't say wearing clocks was "the style back then" because nobody wore clocks except for Flava.

Burn Hollywood Burn Public Enemy with Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube

Go to NYC...being from CT...I support my corner hood of the country

Tell you what man, we're worried about what's going on in the US now. The power has never been more corrupt. Stay strong.

Yeah booooyyy! Oldskool! 🤗 🇬🇧

This song was not just a song, it was legit a movement!

Self destruction check out the song as well as the video

Anthrax/Public Enemy-Bring the Noise is what you need in your life.

Dude, go to NYC. Traveling is initially intimidating, but you can do it and it will show you what you are capable of. I never left my home state until I was in my 20s. This thoroughly enlightened dude convinced me to take one of my summers off and travel the country with him. Saying yes to that changed my life. Dude travel. TRAVEL. Embrace your inner nomad. See some shit.

Flavor Flav always had a clock, to show ppl that THEY Don't Know What TIME IT IS, unaware of what's really going on

Go to NYC kid! Best place on earth!!!

This song hits even FAR harder now in the age if lies, ignorance, and the orange menace love of white supremacy. I wish they would remix this for today. It is even MORE true an powerful now

Flav always knew what time it wuzl

“You know what time it is” means, you know what’s up 😡💣💪🏽and you better know what’s up, or else! ✌🏽💪🏽

Peace! That’s my family PE! Brooklyn Bedstuy right there…Cold Medina..

The Elvis quote is true young brother

YAAAAAA BOIIIIYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

Ahmad, please tell me you will do a deep dive into the PE catalog. One of my top rap groups of all time and It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back AND Fear of a Black Planet are two of the best rap albums EVER. I could list TONS of songs from them to check out. However, if you want something current so to speak, definitely check out their newest album. Also, if you didn't already know, Chuck D is also a partner in the group Prophets of Rage, which includes "the band from RATM" and B Real from Cypress Hill. That group has some good tunes and comes off as basically, RATM but instead of Zack you get Chuck D and B Real on the rhyming. Also-2, if you didn't know already, this song and video was tied into Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing. That movie was a very socially conscious tale....definitely worth a watch.

You answered your own question Flavor Flav wore the clock so he would always know what time it was... in our era that meant pay attention Keep Your Head on a swivel and know what's going on at all times. We would say "you know what time it is!" in other words you know what's up

The good old 80's and 90's. RUN, beasties, public ENEMY, RAGE! Glad your discovering.

Finally!! Loved the reaction. Conscious hip-hop. On similar note listen to Mos Def Black on Both Sides. A masterpiece.

A lot of PE to check out. My suggestion is "Can't Truss It."

Oh shit you got me steppin.

Review PE Harder than You Think . Because “If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything “. Never has a truer statement been made. Chuck D is a prophet (as well as a Prophet of Rage).

My favorite PE joints are Black Steel in The Hour of Chaos and Can’t Trust It. Both have fire beats and strong messages

My Mama told me the same thing about Elvis. Like maybe he said it way back in the day, in the 50's or something. I'd like to know myself if he said it.

Lyrics remain relevant because not much has changed in 400 years.

Another MC you should listen to is Grand Puba. I definitely recommend “I like it” “ A little of this” and “360”

For hype men, check out Lost Boyz - Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz... Freaky Tah was the man. Also, Busta's hype man is the bomb on Touch It remix and others (that's also great live, think it was some awards show, check it out.

NY was great in the late 80's. Keyword "was". I feel sorry for young people who see how cool this country used to be, because the good ol' days will never be back.

Man, PE could still turn out a crowd like that in Brooklyn. It’d be a lot more white…with plenty of strollers with kombucha in the cup holder…but my guess is PE could still rock it.

Elivis got rich off re-packaging old Blues music as his own, but so did most of the good rock bands in the 70's.. Hell Pink Floyd is named for two old blues guys. That's where they drew their inspriation. I don't know think the artists were racist because they liked the old blues and wanted to incorporate it into their music, but the labels sure as hell were back in the day. Some people don't like Elvis because he got rich off "black" music, but I see it more as society's problem at the time. Music doesn't know color. People like what they like.