Chuck D snapped on this...... "Can't Truss It"

[patscorpio]

My favorite PE song

 

[smokeurobinson]

Hands down....one of the most revolutionary songs hip hop ever saw. MTV actually played that video heavy....a freaking video were the whiteman rapes a Blackwoman and the they hang a Black man at the end


That video marked the sign that MTV was acknowledging real hip hop in contrast to the bullshyt like them having that Marky Mark song "good vibrations" in rotation early that year in 1991. NWA and 2 Live Crew around the same time were still tabooish for MTV to play their stuff in rotation in 91 but that all changed in 93. I think MTV switched it up becuase they were competing with The Box and The Box was playing the videos MTv wasn't.

Here come the drum!

Apocalypse 91 is my favorite PE album

word? the content was there but the production wasn't . i still say thats the album were they fell off. Griff just recently said that the passion was gone when that album dropped.


The singles were great tho.


"Shut Em Down" is in my rotation and has been for years....was just blasting that song 2 days ago.

PE won hip hop album of the year at the Soul Train music awards for Apocalypse 91'.

no shade but that was clearly a case of 'playing to what looks good' because there were albums that were competing . PE had the content but the beats weren't there overall. nikkaz4life, Low End Theory, Breaking Atoms...Nice And Smooths 2nd album. EPMDs 3rd album. All these albums repped the up to date new school production were PE were trying to recapture there old sound but missed the mark. And Cube gave hip hop that rugged PE type of consciousness with a better lyrical execution on the album Death Certificate.

 

[Wild self]

Wasn't shocked that Chuck and Lyor Cohen didn't get along too well considering the type of shyt that Lyor wanted Def Jam to push.

You see how they want PE and this type of history erased?

No coincidence that they made white record execs scared to death, and had numerous meetings to ensure that another pro-black movement in black music would never happen again.

 

[drugxglory]

I love how they plugged this song in the movie American Gangster when he gets out of prison standing on the sidewalk, everyone walking past him, now he was a nobody


Cant truss it

 

[Deoji]

aye slim. This song should be mentioned with the Rebel Without a Pauses and the Don't Believe The Hypes and the Black Steel in the Hour of Chaoses...but somehow it gets overlooked. This song came out at the same as My Mind's Playin Trick on Me so maybe that's why. The end is just . With Flav and Chuck simultaneously talking that shyt and Terminator X cutting shyt up.

 

[Sane]

 

[The_Hillsta]

no shade but that was clearly a case of 'playing to what looks good' because there were albums that were competing . PE had the content but the beats weren't there overall. nikkaz4life, Low End Theory, Breaking Atoms...Nice And Smooths 2nd album. EPMDs 3rd album. All these albums repped the up to date new school production were PE were trying to recapture there old sound but missed the mark. And Cube gave hip hop that rugged PE type of consciousness with a better lyrical execution on the album Death Certificate.

As far as production you can throw Quik Is The Name in that mix also. Been tellin cats for years 91' wasn't no joke. If I ain't mistaken I don't think PE had won any type of awards up to that point. The Soul Train music awards that was our shyt, so yeah, figure it would only be right to show some love for that album after those bruhs dropped some/one of the greatest albums/singles in hip hop history prior, with no type of recogntion award wise. First time seeing those brothas win anything, all our people in the crowd happy fists in the air, the group happy as hell.....I bet even the cats who didn't win was happy as hell to see them get an award...remind me of this shyt from that same year



I remember Chuck during his speech saying that they finally got some justice/recognition. But yeah, there were MONSTER albums competing that year. I remember how HUGE and everybody anticipating to see Terminator 2 that summer 91', was up in the theater first day it was released. Bruh, they threw the PE shirt on young John Conner......Fell out my fukkin seat

 

[smokeurobinson]

As far as production you can throw Quik Is The Name in that mix also. Been tellin cats for years 91' wasn't no joke. If I ain't mistaken I don't think PE had won any type of awards up to that point. The Soul Train music awards that was our shyt, so yeah, figure it would only be right to show some love for that album after those bruhs dropped some/one of the greatest albums/singles in hip hop history prior, with no type of recogntion award wise. First time seeing those brothas win anything, all our people in the crowd happy fists in the air, the group happy as hell.....I bet even the cats who didn't win was happy as hell to see them get an award...remind me of this shyt from that same year



I remember Chuck during his speech saying that they finally got some justice/recognition. But yeah, there were MONSTER albums competing that year. I remember how HUGE and everybody anticipating to see Terminator 2 that summer 91', was up in the theater first day it was released. Bruh, they threw the PE shirt on young John Conner......Fell out my fukkin seat

Okay well if that was their first award...I'll take what I said back just off the strength.



But that album was the most anticipated hip hop album of the year and i myself was hyped...I bought the tape which came with the lyrics sheet and played it from start to finish. U know how when u like a rapper and they drop something thats eh! but u in denial at first? that was me. Keep in mind Terminator X had dropped his solo album earlier that same year which i also bought and felt production wise they were on the same level which meant the Fear Of A Black Plant production that hyped everyone up was no longer. I remember PE and 2pacx having me look up that word "Apocolypse" because im thinking it must be serious if they both naming their album after it....

Like u said, that T2 co sign was big....and that was due to the Fear Of The Black Planet hype.....

NWA, Tribe, Heavy D, De La. Nice And Smooth, they all dropped albums and it was as if PE was supposed to be the grand finale but missed the mark yet Cube comes out of nowhere and hits it on the nail wit Death Certificate.....thats why till this day i say when pe dropped that album it was the beginning of the end of the conscious era and the gangster rap era would soon takeover because Cube took it where PE didnt.....I mean Cube was calling that whiteman all types of devils when Chuck wouldn't LOL

 

[DANJ!]

aye slim. This song should be mentioned with the Rebel Without a Pauses and the Don't Believe The Hypes and the Black Steel in the Hour of Chaoses...but somehow it gets overlooked. This song came out at the same as My Mind's Playin Trick on Me so maybe that's why. The end is just . With Flav and Chuck simultaneously talking that shyt and Terminator X cutting shyt up.

Terminator, you ready to drop the bass?

We the men, you just visitin'

Watch ya step boy!

It's like that, like that! And all that, all that!

Then add all that to the video with the Rodney King part, and the man being hung...

That was the last time PE really captured what made them great...

 

[The_Hillsta]

Okay well if that was their first award...I'll take what I said back just off the strength.



But that album was the most anticipated hip hop album of the year and i myself was hyped...I bought the tape which came with the lyrics sheet and played it from start to finish. U know how when u like a rapper and they drop something thats eh! but u in denial at first? that was me. Keep in mind Terminator X had dropped his solo album earlier that same year which i also bought and felt production wise they were on the same level which meant the Fear Of A Black Plant production that hyped everyone up was no longer. I remember PE and 2pacx having me look up that word "Apocolypse" because im thinking it must be serious if they both naming their album after it....

Like u said, that T2 co sign was big....and that was due to the Fear Of The Black Planet hype.....

NWA, Tribe, Heavy D, De La. Nice And Smooth, they all dropped albums and it was as if PE was supposed to be the grand finale but missed the mark yet Cube comes out of nowhere and hits it on the nail wit Death Certificate.....thats why till this day i say when pe dropped that album it was the beginning of the end of the conscious era and the gangster rap era would soon takeover because Cube took it where PE didnt.....I mean Cube was calling that whiteman all types of devils when Chuck wouldn't LOL

This the shyt that always trips me out about hip hop. You way out in NYC I'm out in Cali, you probably had cats in Africa, n other countries doing the EXACT SAME THING You remember how they just left us hangin at the end of Fear....."Now talk to me about the future of Public Enemy. The future of Public Enemy gotta......" And the muthafukkin interview just cut off!left us

Man, Do The Right Thing, the movie, Fight The Power/single, Fear, I copped Valley Of The Jeep Beets also, wore the tape out....Had me summer simpin this lil honey playing No Further off that tape. Would catch that Juvenile Delinquentz and Buck Whilin video once n a while on Yo MTV Raps.

Like you said though bruh, that PE ritual was SERIOUS. Can't Truss It jammin everywhere you looked/went. Album finally dropped, first day copp. I took that shyt home, cracked it open, broke out the sheet music closed the door and studied that album following along with the sheet music like I was studying for a muthafukkin test bruh! Thinkin damn, Can't Truss It, these cats about to top Fear, Nation, etc.....Listened to the tape all the way through and the VERY first thing I realized was how short the shyt was So I ran that shyt back again....Something was missing, being a PE stan I didn't want to admit it then, just exactly like you said, we was in denial, pushed that shyt unwillingly into our subconscious. The HIGHEST expectations for the greatest rap group arguably of all time. Ain't no way we was gonna just let this be a "regular dope" albumThis was Public Enemy we was talkin, the standards we held for those bruhs was outta control back then. But you could hear the decline in the overall production on some of those songs which was unacceptable. But we loved them dudes and accepted the offering. Can't Truss It became a slogan, class song, classssick....Shutemdown was etched in high top fades at school. Man I still play Apocalypse to this day, everything them cats is spittin on that record is still relevant as it was back then. From Nighttrain to get The fukk out Of Dodge. Bruh, on that song I used to tell my cousins these dudes went and sampled Color Me Badd on Get the The fukk Outta Dodge


But yeah, man we was blessed with some CLASSIC music in the 80's n early 90's, shyt was/is special. You mentioned Cube droppin DC also during that last quarter. Chuck only cussed if he was really really was trying to get a point across and it was censored, but we knew what to expect from Cube, what he tell us on Burn Hollywood Burn...."Red/blue lights what a common sight, pulled to the curb getting played like a sucka, DON'T FIGHT THE POWERTHE MUTHAfukkA!!!!"