This brotha’ doesn’t lie.

This song ahead of it's time and he's telling the truth

If you are watching this after 31 years you are a legend.

This song is really a warning to the unaware. Don't rely upon them to 'save the day', or anything ridiculous, like that. You're on your own, homie

Flava’s dances always did it for me!😂 Even on “I Aint No Joke” for Rakim his moves were on point!

Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is a masterpiece!

Flav is the pioneer of hype men for real folks definitely need to pay more homage to flav.

I'm a metalhead and I love Public Enemy and listened to Fear of a Black Planet over and over again! Long live Chuck D and Flava Flav!

Can we appreciate Flav had the dopest style?

The art of story telling and reality at times.

When the hype man is a better MC than most 'rappers' around today.

Samuel L. Jackson is literally in everything 🤣😂

This song will never gets old!!!

My 13 year old cat "Oliver" passed away on Sunday. This was his favorite song. Seriously, I would sing him the hook every time he was on my lap and it was time for me to get up out of the chair and he *knew* it was time to get up! lol

Gotta love the cameos from Samuel L. Jackson, Chuck D, the late Jam Master Jay and DJ Hurricane of the Beastie Boys and one half of rap duo The Afros

This actually happened to me years ago in Tulsa, OK. I got hit by a truck and this dude had to call 911 twice before they showed. I was in a coma for a week, and had no memory about what happened.

FLAVA KILLED IT!

PE hits you in the gut and makes you laugh at the same time. So original!!!!

The staff at the DMV mentioned this song and now I have it in my head so I had to come here and listen

"I called 911 a long time ago." - schoolchildren of Uvalde, Texas

This song still holds up.

2024 and it's still the damn anthem for every year.

How does this only have ONE MILLION VIEWS?

Legend has it those guys are still standing by that pay phone waiting for 911

A piece of history. Great song, great album. 😎✌️

Best rap group ever

Still fresh after all these years 👊👌✌

"Git up a get get get down, 911 is jokin yo town, OWW!" Still a cut. I will never forget watching this as a kid and looking at the man at the end mad as hell the cops hadn't shown up. Unforgettable.

Back when MTV and BET played a lot of music videos

Flavor flav is a natural hero I’m glad he changed his life

2024 . Still classic

0:37 is that Samuel L. Jackson ??

"with not a minute to spare" lol...Visionary, prophet, comedian...very cool song...thanks Flavor!

This song ages incredibly well…

Flavor Flav should have rapped on more songs, he's a better rapper than people might think.

Flavor flav one of the best dressed hiphop artists ever

Timeless Classic👍👍👍

All I need is my clock and my rocket boot, oh, what time is it? Time to KICK IT!

This should be played for the Uvalde police.

I consider Chuck D one of the three greatest lyricists of all time, as well as one of the most important. Back in the day, rap, metal, goth... All were outsider music and a lot about the frustration and angst of being alive at that time. Then, somehow we all broke into exclusive camps, and liking PE if you were a metalhead was uncool. F*ck that, never lost my love of that perspective that PE could bring. It may not be "my culture", but every person needed to hear it. PE should have been 10x more legendary but the powers that be divided and conquered.

Soundtrack of my childhood/teenage years. Still the best - everrrrrrrrr

love this instrumental.......Y'all gotta look at the emergency, lol! Dude sitting down upon the light pole aint even trippin'. lol

Yep...Definitely a masterpiece. Funny as hell yet so true.

Another classic finally uploaded in much better quality. Sam Jackson at 0:37.

We used to run to the tv when this video came on and do all the flava Flav dances #hiphopsaveslives

How does this not have over a million views 😳

Still holds up

I love Flavas dance. 😎

Flavor at his best

Flavo did flip on this one.

Flav in a casket 😂😂😂

Flavor flavors funky, That 911 hook true funk.

Classic jam...Flav is underrated as a rapper.

0:00 When we call our 999 they come round to arrest us.

3/5/22 still jamming on this

Flavor Flav is an AMERICAN ICON!

This aged perfectly

Classic song! 👌🏾 More remastered videos in 1080p HD from NOW on! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I once called 911 when my son fell from a ladder and lost consciousness and I got a recording "Your call is very important to us, please hold for the next available..." so I threw him in the car (he was still little) and took off for the hospital.....

My seven year old sings this all the time after seeing it on KZfaq. I'm proud

Man I was the most militant child because of Public Enemy . Thank you for the knowledge

it’s bad when this song is relevant in NYC,California, Florida 😅 in 2024 😢

How does this masterpiece not have over a million views?

It was awesome to grow up in the 80s and see where Hip Hop is now. Fantastic. It's really the only music I've evolved with. Couldn't live without it music wise.

0:15 the shirt on the left was everywhere in 1990-1991😂

Flavor-Flav knew what he was talking about. Heck look at what happened in Texas at that school and the shooting in Buffalo.

This song brings back memories. Was featured on the old school NEW YORK UNDERCOVER SHOW.💪🏿

30 years later and it’s still a joke smh

Sister T bought me here 😩😩😩🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

I couldn't get into rap/hip-hop in the early days because to me it was just third-grade rhymes over someone else's music with the same regurgitated bravado about how much money or how many women someone had. Then my best friend, a Rolling Stones fanatic, out of nowhere lent me this album and said, "i know dude, but give it a chance. just listen to the lyrics and see what you think".... i stand corrected

Certified Classic!!!! We need more Revolutionary music like this!!!! Who's going to be the modern PE!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌✊✊✊✊💙💙💙

There's not a minute to spare !!

So, it's official. Samuel L. Jackson has been in everything.

I'm remember watching this on heavy rotation on the jukebox channel, the box. Im old asf lol

Masterpiece, still relevant ...

Saw these guys in Chicago with Sonic Youth opening for them waaay back in 1992. Awesome crowd that night without too much craziness, and then things went bonkers afterwards when folks started fighting with cops just outside the theater.

When he says it's a body bag in desciese. To dissect you he's talking about taking organs I've been watching him since 12 he sends messages

Why am I still searching for this song so many years later !! Real rap

Haven't heard this song in about 30 years. All I remembered of it was the background singers saying, "911 is a joke!" Typed that into Google, and here I am! 🤣🤣

Man, this beat is insane. And the scratches and mix is incredible.

The doctors huddle up & cal a Fea flika 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Clever tune and based on a real incident.

This man spits fire, i do also truly belive that the rear engine layout of the porsche 911 is indeed inferior to the mid engine layout.

“I don’t need you to make me breakfast, all I need is my clock and my rocket boot. Oh what time is it? TIME TO KICK IT!”

Happy Anniversary to this song, "911 is a Joke" by Public Enemy from their 3rd album, CD, cassette tape, and vinyl, Fear of a Black Planet, released on March 27, 1990. This song is from the 90's. It came out in 1990.

Sometimes i want a funky funny track that i can rap along with lol😎

This was the shit in Chicago streets when I was a teen.

Been loving it for 31 years.

People forget what a Hardcore HipHop icon Flavor Flave was. Even the headbangers respected Chuck D & PE. The Bomb Squad production, mixed with Chuck’s booming political poetry was undeniable. When you bough “A Nation of Millions” or “Fear of a Black Planet” you felt like you were buying something REAL (not some entertainment BS). These men did more for race relations than the entire Civil Rights movement, and it was global.

best hip-hop group

Damn, was doing the flavor flav dance on my grandmas coffee table back when this came out. Watchin this now makes me want to go and the flav dance on my grandma’s coffin

As a metalhead this was the first hip hop i couldnt deny the power of.

We used to say that "somebody calllammalance" line all the time.

Qué bueno está el OST de G.I. Joe!

This song as you may not know actually did a great favor at its time: It's criticism of what was a dreadfull emergency service that don't worked at all made 911 servers improved and profesionalized themselves due to public shame...at least for some time.

That is why I only call...311.

I looove Public Enemy !

911 is a Joke was Public Enemy's second number-one rap chart hit after "Fight the Power." This song is about the lack of response to emergency calls in a black neighborhood, but specifically references the poor response by paramedic crews and not the police, which is a common misconception regarding the track; the "911" in the title of the song refers to 9-1-1, the emergency telephone number used in North America. This is sampling Sound Experience, Lyn Collins, Wilbur "Bad" Bascomb, Robin Harris, Parliament, Eddie Murphy, Big Daddy Kane, Mico Wave and Michael Jackson. According to law professors Peter DiCola and Kembrew McLeod, if the samples used on "911 Is a Joke" and the other tracks on Fear of a Black Planet had been cleared for copyright under 2010 rates, each copy of the album would have generated a loss of five dollars per album sold, instead of a profit. In 1990, I saw this when the Fly Girls of In Living Color (Season 1, Episode 13) was dancing to this, while David Alan Grier was playing Flavor Flav on 911 is a Joke. The song was referenced on a episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air called "It Had to Be You", where Carlton tells Will that be borrowed his Public Enemy tape to jog to. In October 1994, the song was featured prominently in the opening scene of "Tasha", an early episode of the Fox police drama television series New York Undercover. In 2009, The Washington Post ran a story discussing Public Enemy members' visit to a center for homeless and displaced youth. The article referred to the song "911 is a Joke", but due to a copy-editing error,"911" was printed as "9/11", which some readers took to be a reference to the September 11 attacks. A week later, the Post printed a correction. On "Epidemiology," a 2010 episode of the NBC sitcom Community, Jeff (portrayed by Joel McHale) is unable to contact a 911 operator during an emergency -- prompting him to declare that "Flavor Flav was right."

My pops stay singing this

Mane after what we found out today from texas this mane wasn’t lying💔💔💔💯