Straight up real as fuk

But, what bout griff

Apparently they do now 😂

@@tyersalladam4735 because the system back then wasn't aware how to use them, then found out if they use them to corrupt the black community, more will end up in prison, and its good for prison investors. Look up how many rappers invested in prisons.

What power,,, the propaganda power,, come together America and fight the real power,,

Sad but true. Today rap is straight garbage 🗑💩🤮💩🖕👎. I wish I can go back to the 1980's and early 90's and just leave me.

Hold my beer

So sad

I know it got way better 😊

It will be again when people will understand what FIGHT THE POWER really means today

It's just the video uploaded lately

... Y Elvis no fue racista nunca...

@@noestahechalamielparatuboca no but he’s definitely a paedophile

whos under rated him, hes up there with the best of em

​@@noestahechalamielparatuboca que dices man. 😐

Denis Camdzic your right

Yeah Correct

I remember when the change came in, no disrespect to Gangsta rap ( which had already exsisted in forms ) but the industry latched on hard and messages like PE, X Clan, and many others got drowned out quick.

@@RiveTheRat Thanks Man , I will check Run the Jewels

Yeah, this has been one of my favorites on KZfaq for years, when it had multiple millions of hits, but now less than a million. What's up with that?

THATS WHAT UR MOMMA SAID DUDE

That flavour flave really fought the power didn’t he…

@@lebonmarchandhernandezhern545 What you mean 🤔

Maybe they meant later in his career? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nauWd5OGs66niaM.html @@jaimesmith2266

Yup

The market doesn't want you to think. Just consume and reproduce.

I’m hearing blasting away! This is how it was done.

Exactly!

Project 2025 educate yourself

​@@YosefNasilol another psyop

Man of integrity.

He's awesome.

Yes, he never sold out.

Mr Chuck D hosted a fantastic limited series about The Clash a few years back. Highly recommended. He’s as punk as it gets and I’m glad he used his voice to raise awareness for others. You’re a punk rock warlord, sir. A life well lived.

Even by the time they got to Arizona

Exactly 💯

Wow kudos to you. I'm in law school now

I love the idea of a lawyer with a pair of oversized headphones on his lunch break blasting this lmao

sounds like my story, though I wasn't involved in rap culture.

Awesome - Inspiration is where you find it.

There need to be an anthem on this level after Goerge

Chuck D said he was inspired by NBA analyst Marv Albert.. he tried to emulate his sound as a rapper. And now every time you hear a public enemy song, you’ll probably also hear marv calling an nba game. Dope 😎

The enemy is not "whitey" - the enemy is the wealthy.

Protest the system. Stop picking sides like birds!!!

Yes, RUN DMC, LL COOL J ,PUBLIC ENEMY Will always be the BEST EVER

​@@georgeburkhardt5632AGREED: But, you forgot to mention KRS ONE! "Stop the violence" is one of the best raps ever and still poignant today.. More so! Public Enemy are NUMBER ONE though. 👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿

Exactly ❤🎉❤

Fight fake power! They are neurotic sadistic

Wishful thinking. It's impossible, unfortunately. Humans are too fallible.

Mighty Raccoon NEVER EVER!

Come On With It.

Just like Radio Raheem :(

It's been old for 30 years.

John Atwell Shut up

Steve if you want revalent words to a song listen CAREFULLY. To The temptions Ball of confusion. AND .....The law of the land.. Im white 65 yr old soul boy from uk.. these words are for both of us at the bottom of life's ladder...

Project 2025 educate yourself

Sadly, Gen Z has no idea who they are.

yeah the greatest racist anti-white group, and who bought their music ?: white people

@@jstohler It's up to us to tell everyone about them

@@dwightlove3704 And introduce them to the new kids on the block carrying this sound on. We can't replicate Chuck D and the dozens of others that defined this era, but we can spread the word amongst the young kids and let them hear what rap should sound like. In my area we had Macklemore, Grynch, Knowmads, and many more repping the 206 (aka Seattle).

@@simpledj509chromo7 Macklemore is apart of the RAINBOW COALITION pushing that SAME SEX GARBAGE that affects the Black Community today.He had a song called SAME LOVE THANKS BUT NO THANKS.

Absolutely.... They had me tears when they preformed on BET.

Come On With It.

This generation got it!

Bro Chuck D gave me my 1st level of consciousness! Fear of a Black Planet 1 of the best albums ever made. I use to listen to it twice a day. I was a young boy but the message was clear!!

@@subzeroconscious7817 - Same.

Without driving licence... by the way.😂

For real!! Smooth as a mofo!!

Word em up on the level / the reasons are several / most of ‘em federal

Soooo true. I love just listening to his voice in this song. It's deep and smooth but he was pretty young.

And he made rap relevant as he preaches the truth!

Chuck D voice is underrated he sounds like if God took the mic and was rapping

THE.

Remember the racist in NYC but other cities are not news.

No mas Is THE best hip hop group in of all time

So true!!!

They are the best rap group

24. Glad there are more like me.

@@Thewritingelf aye we lit bro

You grew up well then

Your elders taught you well

Thrilled to read this comment. I'm 55 years old, lived this era

X Clan did to as well. We need more this!!!👍🏾👍🏾

Facts!

​@@tiffysimm7346BB King and James brown said Elvis wasn't racist, I'll take their words over some random guy, who never even met him, talking about him in a song 11 years after his death. Chuck D 😂 he even said later "Elvis was a door, a gateway through to the roots. In the beginning of his career Elvis admitted where the roots came from, but did anybody care?"

Elvis wasn't like that, he even took few lessons from bruce Lee.... but john Wayne is a different story

you don't know what ruthless is if you didn't notice the line about 'Don't worry, Be happy' being the #1 jam

Chuck D has since rescinded what he said about Elvis.

HE needs to appear on a stamp! According to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, he was in on the decision to release Janet Jackson's "That's The Way Love Goes" as the first (?) single from that album. I only bring it up to show that Chuck D has a reach beyond what most of us even have an idea about!

WORD

while he still on this Black Planet! saw em in London in '87 - best gig I've ever been to.

'International' hero! 💓

Agreed

No need to curse God to get your point across, yo 😉✌🏽🕊️❣️ But much Love for your TRUTH

Society will try to stop them, but another great, straight from the heart song will come. The best music always comes from the streets

Same!

The best rap group EVER....

Wym almost it’s been 32 years

LMAO right!!! I was born in '89 so you know ik... 🤣🤣🤣

It came out in 1989, so it's been 33 years now...

I just thought of that. I also feel bad for Smiley.

@@Prinks3414 Nah fuck Smiley. Literally starting shit for no reason. No shit an italian restaurant is gonna show italian people on the wall. Get over it.

@@formxr wrong person

@@formxr Smiley was the disabled guy

@@formxr lmao wrong guy

Come On With It.

FACTS

@@mainesource3000 ATCQ NBN NWA WTC ???

Nah bro, NWA

Nahhhhhh mobb deep #1

"They" then used NWA to subvert it.

@@abominableman the energy was the same and thats what made the industry/ government push west coast gangster rap to cover up and dilute and not educate both black and white kids through music which gets in every home and young person way more than any ministers msg

And that's exactly what they did..

Yeah and it changed into a circus 😂

yes, malcolm x isnt so good, too radical, violent, MLKJ is right, all brothers and sisters.

Why does there have to be a skin color involved? Just keeping racism alive with this Black this Black that. It would enrage the black community If white people stood around and said white this white that white schools white streets white neighborhood. This white black thing has to stop. It’s who ever’s national anthem that wants it. Skin color doesn’t matter. We’ve all felt the sting of “THE POWER.” Not just the black community. We have to fight together against the powers that be through legal means. Don’t let them divide us. The government is the one that has proven to be racist, the people of this country not so much. Now I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I guarantee you there’s far more people that are not racist in this country than there are. Those that are racist have been brainwashed. Don’t Listen to the government. They are literally trying to destroy this country from within, and they are using its people to do it. Open your eyes!

Still resonating today 👌🏼

@@Anonymous-Joker74 yeh boy

the messenger of prophecy

Check out Black Steel by them.

Racionais mano brown is better tho

I love that line

Why does Chuck D and PE want Margaret Sanger on a stamp for her eugenics KKK Planned Parenthood so badly?

@@kevyster where you hear this?

skee magee that’s how they get you by spreading so much bs misinformation, too the point where your arguing about Gay Frogs and 5g is Melting your Brain Cells if they had any to begin with, and then claim the white media which is white lol is the one spreading fake news.... well duh that’s has always been the case and the black communities have know this.

@keith I was singing that when i bought a sheet of Hip-Hop stamps last month. With a great big smile on my face.

It was anti white hate

Gen X unfortunately sold out. Most of them are Trumpers. They have totally forgotten what Chuck taught us.

Adventures With Phil 🤔You tell me I was 11 when this came out!!

Hello welcome eyes open

Isn't that the sad part though?

Chuck D got the best Voice ever he best rap

The lie still persis that he was the driving force behind the success of Rock Music.I saw the movie about Presley and he stated that he was not the king of this genre of music and he said that FATS DOMINO was the KING OF ROCK MUSIC.

And yet they're aligned with Google and all the mofo free speech crushin' Afro baby jabbin' $$$ milkin' depopulation freaks slippin' bribes under the table, don't even play blind like the rest

❤️🤣

I still believe he was kinda racist..

@@mariomesenarias4218 Who? Elvis?

They were legendary.There was nothing like them at the time....

Hard of him crying like a B...

@@steveb7144like ur mom

No you don't. :)

Lmfaoooo

I hear ya from Ohio. I met a young girl from a reservation and she was traumatized. I hear ya. I also had a pal that tried to city manage a small town in Nebraska and they were so racist. Now I live in Southern Chile and the Mapuche are still fighting the power.

what does "enrolled" native american mean?

@@sallylauper8222 Yes we do Sally!

Yep I want a Fight the Power T-Shirt

On Deck Family!! Power To The People!!!!

Right here! with fist held high!

Exactly - punk rock right from the jump, speaking up, refusing to be intimidated

Stood for anti-Whitism and division. Yes they stood firmly on that.

And conference to!

@@igorivanov299how sensitive are y’all lmaoo shameless race

And nothing says "voice of black people" more than Tawana Brawley's lying, race-grifting ass at 4:02, trying to blame a fabricated crime on white people. Great optics.

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I hate up voting on a even number comment, so I'll support with this comment anyways.

@@Blazex1x1 lol

EPIC!!!

I'm with you today and all the days after on this message.

I'm 58 and still fighting. Have to be an example for my grandkids ✊

Right here!! Im 54! Taught My children! Now They are teaching Theirs!!! 💪🏼✊🏼👊

Himnon de unio soviwtca

🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥

Not was. It is. Still relevant today

❤💯🎶❤️🌹it will take a nation of millions to hold us back. If we'd just stick together.

Off course 😂

Agreed!

Stop being racist and shooting little girls for stealing orange juice then.

@@karmatt3098 I'm the one being racist? So you expect me and an entire community of Asian Americans to be blamed for what happened in 1992? Bro, R.I.P to Latasha Harlins but before you talk about being racist, are you going to accept accountability for all the Asian American elderly killed in the U.S at the hands of African Americans during the pandemic? You're probably gonna say it's white people right? Well these victims don't look like they were attacked by the ones who stormed the Capitol. I have African American friends and thank God, they don't think and act nothing like you. You're so limited minded that you got your assessment of an entire community from a convenience store incident is like if I got my assessment of the African American community from watching a rap video. It's ignorant, just like you. So when you can achieve a common sense level that goes beyond your hood, then level up and come talk to me.

NEVER STOP FIGHTING THE POWER! words to live by!

@@sunlotus8 Thanks brother. You all have a lot to fight for so never stop. ✊

Konichiwa

Who said that??

Word

True 'Dat

Yes they are

Amen. My adopted dad was a panther. This song, the respect shown to my Pop. I cry every time I see this. Pop was in the Desire standoff. Fight the Power indeed.

AMEN 🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🙌🏿🤟🏼🤟🏻👌🏾👌🏻👌🏽 Viva Las Panteras Negras de Tucson !! {Long Live The Black Panthers of Tucson} Amphi Panteras Tenants Empowerment Association!

Fuck the panthers

As Salaam Alaikum! No they carried the spirit of the F.O.I. & The Nation of Islam. Public Enemy is my family . Those drills are NOI inspired; because we drill and have been doing military drills since 1932! The F.O.I. Is a military like any other military. Professor Griff is a registered FOI as are 4 other members of the S1W’s. Do the knowledge and look and you’ll see many FOI in the video in charge of the security at the rally. Peep all the bow ties and suit/with boots. Please give the Nation of Islam credit where credit is due! Lastly many members and leaders of the BPP were once also registered in the N.O.I. ..Huey Newton, Clarke Bobby Seale, Stokley, etc all used to attend the Temple; in Oakland, Ca. in the early 60’s.

Either that or "Margaret Thatcher, tell her clear the way for the Prophets of Rage."

yea there in jail for life some power

I personally like the line about ELVIS

​@@dwightlove3704 "the sucka was simple and plane"

@@wattaura7621 Then FF sealed the deal

We can control what we listen to and put out. It’s more independent artists now than ever before. Support the ones that actually have a message in the song

Piss onto you for burning your own guitar 😮

Heavy!

What about the Flavor of Love

Well that will never happen because everyone is racist towards white people now

Won’t. Peace isn’t Making anybody any money.

Not even just for black people but for the american people as a whole. The power is fucking everybody over

Agree

🤚🏻

Just live your life, fella. Doesn't matter who is in power. Folks will always find grievances with whoever it is. Nothing will ever be good enough. People spend so much time playing the victim, that they miss living their life. I'm not singling out anyone in particular here, I'm talking about society in general. Everyone is taking part in the victim Olympics and moaning about change, Whether that be too much change or a lack thereof. Everyone in the west has equal rights these day's, so folk should just get on with living there lives, and quit boo-hoo, whining and crying. Just my two cents.🤷‍♂️

Exactly

It ain't ever to late to change

Facts. We gotta do better. I’m no longer supporting lame shit no mo

Turn protests into action. Vote, lobby, organize, read, educate people/yourself

alot of us are selling eachother out for a pat on head from people who dont like us.

THE most important hip hop group of ALL time

@@timujin1000 Broken glass, everywhere.... Those boys came first.

Important Group of all time, fixed that for you 👍

Don't forget KRS-1.

Indeed

Hella lit !!!!!

The FOI, S1W's and Tawana Brawley made video

Absolutely ✊🏾

on malcolm x boulevard, alot my freinds were in the video. i lived aound the corner from PE studio .seen them all my life.

I feel the same way smh

Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia, New York. It’s a beautiful thing to behold.

Now it’s every young man for themselves and backstabbing each other by ratting or killing, no more solidarity

Well, let's not get too excited. People were standing together because Spike Lee's film crew put them there.

Indeed brother, saudações from Brazil 🇧🇷

You know Roberto Duran?

Viva la Raza!

@@scarletknight1035 lol

I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off....

And I’m glad

Still the greatest

it still slap too... i remember when this first came out I was 6 years old. and it still go hard.

@@exists8238 I wish it weren't. I wish my generation had done more to make this song less relevant. I'm still out there marching, but damn, I was 19 when this song came out. And we've elected a bigot to the White House. We gotta get moving.

@@Libbydoh oh, oh no are you ok?

what about NWA fuck the police????

You should get out more.

You must be from the east

@@jefferyyepez8546 not even fam. From the south. I just fucked with how they showed everything that was going on at that particular time. Make me wanna watch “Do The Right Thing” every time G lol

I lived in this neighborhood at the time. Spike Lee helped organize this I believe. Filmed in downtown/Fort Greene Brooklyn. Spike lived on Eliot Park in the hood and grew up there. This vid is BROOKLYN straight up in those years. Streets was real.

I know you’d think things would’ve changed by now or people would’ve woke up

Beto fight the power

​@Augusto Pinochet broken record

@Augusto Pinochet No, you know nothing.

@Augusto Pinochet Thank you for proving my point.

@augustopinochet5346 Says a loser with his head in the sand. There has been systemic racism in this country going back to 1619, the Black Codes, Jim Crowe, etc. This song never gets old.

ha if your racist

When the revolution begin this will be the marching song 😆

And today Chuck bows down to the power

Absolutely right

Not what the song was about . sad as a white guy i know why the song came about

@@jonhanson6128 know exactly why Chuck D wrote it. Did you catch the reference to Malcolm X "swinging while I'm singing"?

Except the protest that went on were supported by the powers that be and they didn’t even know it.

Word em up

100% TRUTH