Public Enemy - Nighttrrain

[The_Hillsta]

"Got the nerve as hell to yell brother man, he ain't black man better yet he's Pac Man. Known to murder his own, traitor on the the phone ridin the train, self hater trained to sell pain, the massa's toy, his lil boy hard to avoid he look wit it but he null n void, cause he ridin the train you think he down for the cause?......Cause his face lookin just like yours."

If you was black, Public Enemy was your granny, mama n daddy's favorite rap group.



Pete Rock Remix


One of the dopest things I remember about PE back in the day was how every physical copy was accompanied with sheet lyrics to every song on the album. Chucks voice was powerful but when you read along to what he was REALLY spittin while you were listening......It was like damn? That's what he mean, shyt!Hearing that gotdamn train horn on your headphones travel from the left side all the way to the rightwhile Flav was attempting to sing that hook off key n shytMan that shyt was only just the intro before they hit you with.....



Crazy when you think how PE, Cube, n others had to try and follow up after droppin albums that ended up solidifying their places in hip hop history. Apocalypse was so dope but they had to follow up that muthafukka after droppin It Takes A Million and FearCube dropped Death Certificate the same year.....Mainstream hip hop for yo ass back then. A whole nother time, but the themes of these albums are STILL relevant TODAY more than ever.

I can never get tired of listening these albums. Have them all ready to pass down to my seeds when they are older like my pops n uncles did for me musically.

 

[The_Hillsta]

"Give you what they gotta give you just go, You musn't put your trust in every brotha yo, some don't give a damn cause they the other man, worst thana bomb, posin as uncle toms, disgracing the race and blowin up the whole crew, wit some of them lookin just like you."

 

[The_Hillsta]

"Homey over there knows Keith n but he be thiefin', I don't trust him rather bust 'em up, out goes his hand and I cough, he once stole from me...
Yeah I wanna cut it off"

 

[I love Latina women]

5 stars, dap and + rep

public enemy is the goat hip hop group, period. chuck's lyrics and voice are out of this stratosphere. listenin' to him spit is like listenin' to a great speech bein' read but in rhyme form. then you got the bomb squad with the this great ass production. those guys were truly innovators.

i too always thought it was really cool how they included

classic thread @The_Hillsta , really great. this is hip hop at it's best

 

[mobbinfms]

@The_Hillsta threads are pretty much a guaranteed dap/rep every time

 

[The_Hillsta]

@The_Hillsta threads are pretty much a guaranteed dap/rep every time

Bruh, I just try and celebrate the music. Muthafukkaz shyt on hip hop left and right, old n new, I just try n post the shyt I've always known n loved. shyt it might be a youngin out there reading this tryna peep game on some of the older stuff.

Never even knew there was an uncensored version of Get The fukk Outta DodgeMusta been on a b-side single. I remember the video getting play and then disappearing like By The Time.

"I'm in the streets on New York.....GO AWAY!!!!!!!So I pop in my Kool G Rap DJ Polo tape...."

How could you NOT like PE

 

[Rakim Allah]

Apocalypse 91 is sooooo underrated as...not only a PE but Hip Hop album.

 

[The_Hillsta]

Apocalypse 91 is sooooo underrated as...not only a PE but Hip Hop album.

My brother used to jam Yo Bum Rush, he first put me on so when Nation n Fear dropped I was full fledge. Bought Fear and Apocalypse with my own bread, personal fav.....

My boi came to school with "Shutemdown" designed in his high top fade when the single was everywhere



That remix tho

 

[DaveyDave]

Apocalypse 91 doesn't get as much love as It Takes A Nation and Fear Of A Black Planet but it's got some of my fav PE songs on it

 

[Piff Perkins]

It's crazy how people act like all 80s acts fell off after their noted classics, the OP is so right. I hate the concept of "definitive" albums because it's used to ignore shyt that came afterwards. Death Certificate is better than Amerikkka's Most Wanted in some ways but people act like they can only hype one album. smh

My uncle used to say that Apocalypse doesn't get love because it doesn't have an iconic album cover like the previous albums. In some ways I think he's right lol. People wanna use any excuse to dismiss albums..

 

[The_Hillsta]

Apocalypse 91 doesn't get as much love as It Takes A Nation and Fear Of A Black Planet but it's got some of my fav PE songs on it

Yeah, its like gotdamn...How do you top Nation n Fear. Kinda like Amerikkka's Most n DC when Cube dropped Predator.......Not on THAT level but still a dope muthafukkin album.

 

[HiredGun]

Chuck & Flav

 

[The_Hillsta]

Apocalypse 91 won the best rap album of the year at the Soul Train Music awards. Still got that shyt recorded on VHS somewhere in storage......Crowd went crazy when they won, fists in the air, Flav danced all the way up to the podium and across the stage. Chuck gave his thank you's sayin "This is justice" shyt was so dope to see, we was cheerin n shytdoin the flavor flav, I know it was our awards n whatnot but it was still dope, whole fam was watchin it.

 

[noodles]

Great thread...feel you on the reading the lyrics on the liner sheets.

 

[THE K-MAN]

PE, De La or EPMD are in the running for the best 4 album run in hop-hop