Thursday, December 2, 2010

PUBLIC ENEMY - YO! BUM RUSH THE SHOW (1987)


I realize that I haven't discussed my long-standing affection for Public Enemy much here on IC in the past, and I intend on righting that transgression posthaste. You see, from approximately the end of my sixth grade year to somewhere in the middle of my eighth grade year ('90-'92ish?), I ate, breathed, and slept nothing but D, Flav, Griff, X, Souljah, and the S1W's. PE was my FAVORITE, the standard by which I judged all other things. In retrospect, it seems overwhelmingly absurd that a white mountain kid from rural Northern California would be so in touch with his African roots, but FUCK, man, PE was the FUCKING SHIT back then. I wore a puffy Starter jacket, Nike Flights, and a Generra Hypercolor shirt. I might've lived in Redwood farmland, but I was down with "urban" America. To this day, I remember making a special trip to a friend's house to view the MTV premier of "Can't Truss It" when it came out (my family didn't have cable). I understood the "struggle", the "revolution". Chuck D had told me all about it.
To this day (and many of my close personal friends will confirm this), if you feed me enough booze and have access to the correct stereo equipment, I will rap along to ANY and ALL Public Enemy albums (up to and including Apocalypse 91), word-for-word, until someone stops me. I know, it's embarassing as fuck and something a grown man should never be caught doing, liquored up or otherwise. But I can't fucking help it. PE IS IN FULL EFFECT, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE.

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8 comments:

Roger Camden said...

mind over matter/mouth in motion/can't defy 'cause I'll never be quiet/let's start this/right

BrundleflyKT said...

As a long time reader of this fine blog, i have enjoyed the hiphop post and most are some of my favorites. Im from Las Cruces, NM and im in a hihop group called Faceless. I think you would really enjoy our music as i dont think it sounds like anything out there. I had posted the link on a previous post, but it was an older one so i dont know if it got overlooked or not, however as a fan of your work it would mean alot to me for you to at least check it out. We do alot of stuff with our friends in ABQ and i think i remember you posting something about living there before, could be wrong. But NM never really finds a voice in the music world, although theres a ton of talent out here...
anyway, our full length and our last sampler is on my blog, ive only got like 4 posts so far so you dont have to search. let me know what you think, and if it sucks you can kick me in the cock when you see me.

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thank you, kill things brundlefly

Ambassador MAGMA said...

RAP IS NOT AFRAID OF YOU!

Shelby Cobras said...

BEAT IS FOR SONNY BONO
BEAT IS FOR YOKO ONO
....????????

Anonymous said...

who? what? where?
the bazooka was who????

Anonymous said...

..And to my res-cue
It was the S1 double-yoo

Shelby Cobras said...

PS Brundlefly: DL'ing now...

BrundleflyKT said...

Awesome, thanks. hope you enjoy it.