Is there another group in the past decade that has Public Enemy's DNA???

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How many independent rap labels and artists came after 92 with success?

Literally ANYONE can be a rapper and start a label from their couch. its been like that for a minute.
If they replicated PE something would happen. They not letting that type of rap get too far. I’m convinced the powers that be got a chokehold on black entertainment esp rap. Too much garbage being pushed by big money.
 

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I'm starting to question if people participating in this thread have even listened to public enemies music......since they're "conscious" rappers like the rest of these guys they're citing. and its a conspiracy. I'll l bit tho cause I aint got shyt 2 do.

"Kendrick Lamar's 'Big Steppers Tour' Becomes Highest-Grossing Rap Tour Ever. Kendrick Lamar's The Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour in hip-hop history. According to Touring Data, Kendrick's nationwide trek has earned $110.9 million in revenue from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows."


explain that. the government didn't assassinate him and he's not a political prisoner. He had a national American tour. that was a "conscious rapper" album right?
 

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If they replicated PE something would happen. They not letting that type of rap get too far. I’m convinced the powers that be got a chokehold on black entertainment esp rap. Too much garbage being pushed by big money.


"Kendrick Lamar's 'Big Steppers Tour' Becomes Highest-Grossing Rap Tour Ever. Kendrick Lamar's The Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour in hip-hop history. According to Touring Data, Kendrick's nationwide trek has earned $110.9 million in revenue from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows."


explain that. the government didn't assassinate him and he's not a political prisoner. He had a national American tour. that was a "conscious rapper" album right?
 

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"Kendrick Lamar's 'Big Steppers Tour' Becomes Highest-Grossing Rap Tour Ever. Kendrick Lamar's The Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour in hip-hop history. According to Touring Data, Kendrick's nationwide trek has earned $110.9 million in revenue from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows."


explain that. the government didn't assassinate him and he's not a political prisoner. He had a national American tour. that was a "conscious rapper" album right?
No Kendrick is not on PE level bro. Not sure how old u are but some of us were around back then. Even tho Kendrick made a lot on his tour it still can’t match what PE was doing. They was literally a movement. Made CACs petrified no bs.
 

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No Kendrick is not on PE level bro. Not sure how old u are but some of us were around back then. Even tho Kendrick made a lot on his tour it still can’t match what PE was doing. They was literally a movement. Made CACs petrified no bs.

You're moving the goalpost. in your earlier threads it was dead....you'd be killed.....I just showed you Kendrik has the highest grossing tour of all time in rap history .....no shyt im not comparing PE to Kendrik. I'm fighting fire with fire. there were a couple posters who got what I was saying. the fact we're compaing "conscious" rappers aint even what im on. its actually ruined my own thread for me :francis:

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And PE did massive record sales and massive touring. Sorry breh a lot of white people were buying and listening since the beggining. You really trying to say yt people never rocked with PE? there is not a single successful rap artist that didn't have white fans. stop it.
you think 2pac and the most thugged out gangster rappers didn't have white fans buying their records and going 2 shows dont u :russ:
 

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You're moving the goalpost. in your earlier threads it was dead....you'd be killed.....I just showed you Kendrik has the highest grossing tour of all time in rap history .....no shyt im not comparing PE to Kendrik. I'm fighting fire with fire. there were a couple posters who got what I was saying. the fact we're compaing "conscious" rappers aint even what im on. its actually ruined my own thread for me :francis:

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And PE did massive record sales and massive touring. Sorry breh a lot of white people were buying and listening since the beggining. You really trying to say yt people never rocked with PE? there is not a single successful rap artist that didn't have white fans. stop it.
you think 2pac and the most thugged out gangster rappers didn't have white fans buying their records and going 2 shows dont u :russ:
Idek where you’re going with this fam. U want Kendrick to be as powerful as PE have at it.
Not even sure how cac fans are a factor in this.
U got it.
 

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Nobody has that balance. Some of these nikkas are too preachy on the mic and forget this is still music

PE had Flav which was the obvious part, but people forget about the S1Ws dancing and keeping it live. Then Terminator X who was on the blades. I don’t think we ever heard him say anything. For all we know that nikka was pawgin and eating bacon but they had him doing what he needed to do on the mix. Top that off with the Shocklee Bros who were geniuses.

Man well need see that again. That was a BAND.
 

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Nobody has that balance. Some of these nikkas are too preachy on the mic and forget this is still music

PE had Flav which was the obvious part, but people forget about the S1Ws dancing and keeping it live. Then Terminator X who was on the blades. I don’t think we ever heard him say anything. For all we know that nikka was pawgin and eating bacon but they had him doing what he needed to do on the mix. Top that off with the Shocklee Bros who were geniuses.

Man well need see that again. That was a BAND.

All this right here.

It wasn't just the message with PE. It was that plus the actual talent and level of musicality. The showmanship. The presentation. The dynamic between Chuck and Flav. I can go on and on. They had something that just can't be recreated.
 

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You could argue RATM. But traditional rap wise, no. There have been times when a major artist has done something that reminds me of the "milk and honey" approach. Nas has done that before, Cole has done that before too. Hell, last year the entire nation was chanting a song with a verse about gentrification and black exploitation. But nobody has married that on a consistent basis nor do I think that's possible anymore.
 

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What the fukk is even the actual question? Cause going through this thread I cant make heads or tails. Are you asking why there cant be a mainstream pro black sociopolitical rap group anymore or why a dude who doesn't rap that good but has a ill voice and a clucked out larger than life entertaining sidekick who had a counterculture ethos worked better in the late 80s and early 90s than it would in the 2020s?

And everybody with the "it's all drill now theres no revolution rap" rotted horse corpse need to stop, I spent years posting the kinda hip hop you're supposedly longing for and at best the response was indifference and the majority of traction the threads did get was to clown on the rappers for their pro black or "conscious" message, if you're saying the kinda rap you liked in the 80s and 90s dont exist now you're either disingenuous or clueless on how to use search functions online
 
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