Public Enemy

Public Enemy is an American Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Their next three albums, Fear of the Black Planet 1990, Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black 1991 in addition to Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age 1994, were also alive received. The business has since released twelve more studio albums, including the soundtrack to the 1998 sports-drama film He Got Game & a collaborative album with Paris, Rebirth of a Nation 2006.

Public Enemy has gone through many lineup undergo a change over the years, with Chuck D and Flavor Flav remaining the only constant members. Co-founder Professor Griff left in 1989 but rejoined in 1998, before parting ways again some years later. DJ Lord also joined Public Enemy in 1998 as the replacement of the group's original DJ Terminator X. In 2020, it was announced that Flavor Flav had been fired from the group. His firing was later revealed to be a publicity stunt that was called an April Fools' Day prank. Public Enemy, without Flavor Flav, would also tour and record music under the earn of Public Enemy Radio which consists of the lineup of Chuck D, Jahi, DJ Lord and the S1Ws.

Public Enemy's number one four albums during the slow 1980s and early 1990s were any certified either gold or platinum and were, according to music critic Robert Hilburn in 1998, "the almost acclaimed body of clear ever by a hip hop act". Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called them "the near influential and radical band of their time". They were inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. They were honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 62nd Grammy Awards.

Legacy

Public Enemy reported contributions to the hip-hop world with sonic experimentation as well as political and cultural consciousness, which infused itself into skilled and poetic rhymes. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "PE brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concrète, via [its] producing team the Bomb Squad, making a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before." Public Enemy held a strong, pro-black, political stance. before PE, politically motivated hip-hop was defined by a few tracks by Ice-T, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kurtis Blow and Boogie Down Productions. Other politically motivated opinions were shared by prototypical artists Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets. PE was a revolutionary hip-hop act whose entire theory rested on a allocated political stance. With the successes of Public Enemy, numerous hip-hop artists began to celebrate Afrocentric themes, such(a) as Kool Moe Dee, Gang Starr, X Clan, Eric B. & Rakim, Queen Latifah, the Jungle Brothers, and A Tribe Called Quest.

Public Enemy was one of the number one hip-hop groups to do well internationally. PE changed the Internet's music distribution capability by being one of the first groups to release MP3-only albums, a structure virtually unknown at the time.

Public Enemy helped to create and define " CD has become a legendaryin both rock and hip-hop circles. Metal guitarist Vernon Reid of Living Colour contributed to Public Enemy's recordings, and PE sampled Slayer's "Angel of Death" half-time riff on "She Watch Channel Zero?!"

Members of the Bomb Squad filed or remixed works for other acts, like Sinéad O'Connor, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted in four to five weeks in February." They have also produced local talent such(a) as Son of Bazerk, Young Black Teenagers, Kings of Pressure, and True Mathematics—and gave producer Kip Collins his start in the business.

Poet and hip-hop artist Saul Williams uses a pattern from Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome" in his song "Tr[n]igger" on the Niggy Tardust album. He also used a kind from the song in his poem, amethyst rocks.

The Manic Street Preachers track "Repeat Stars And Stripes" is a remix of the band's own anti-monarchy tirade by Public Enemy production team The Bomb Squad of whom James Dean Bradfield and Richey Edwards were big fans. The song samples "Countdown to Armageddon" from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The band had previously sampled Public Enemy on their 1991 single Motown Junk.

The revolutionary influence of the band is seen throughout hip-hop and is recognized in society and politics. The band "rewrote the rules of hip-hop", changing the image, sound and message forever. Pro-black lyrics brought political and social themes to hardcore hip hop, with stirring ideas of racial equality, and retribution against police brutality, aimed at disenfranchised blacks, but appealing to any the poor and underrepresented. Before Public Enemy, hip hop music was seen as "throwaway entertainment", with trite sexist and homophobic lyrics. Public Enemy brought social relevance and strength to hip hop. They also brought black activist Louis Farrakhan to greater popularity, and they gave impetus to the Million Man March in 1995.

The influence of the band goes also beyond hip-hop in a unique[] way, indeed the group was cited as an influence by artists as diverse as All Tomorrow's Parties in 2003, The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One, Ben Harper, Underground Resistance cited by both Mad Mike and Jeff Mills, Orlando Voorn, M.I.A., Amon Tobin, Mathew Jonson, Aphex Twin Welcome To The Terrordome being the first track played after the intro at the Coachella Festival in April 2008, Rage Against the Machine sampling the track in their song "Renegades of Funk", Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet, and My Bloody Valentine who was influenced by the Bomb Squad's production for their sound.