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In Tricky and Topley-Bird’s hands it sounded jaded and bitter.

“Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell, how long has it been? They got me sittin’ in the state pen”Ī song about racial profiling and being on the wrong end of systemic prejudice sounded furious and challenging on It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. He had a little help on vocals from Martina Topley-Bird in a star making turn that lit the touch-paper for her own incredible career. Tricky managed it with aplomb on the 1995 trip hop masterpiece Maxinquaye. “I got a letter from the government the other day, opened it and read it, it said they were suckers”Ĭovering Hip Hop is hard to do well. So then perhaps their greatest song Black Steel (In The Hour Of Chaos) has perhaps the most quoted lyric of their whole career (apart from Yeah Boyee!) as an opening line But I can’t diss Chuck D and the Enemy like that. Something like a clueless flat funkless cover version of a hip hop classic. I did toy with the idea of putting an absolute turd of a song on the list just to mess with everybody. With Public Enemy, Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Audio Two. If for no other reason that to block Duran Duran riding into town doing their Dog awful version of 911 Is A Joke and stinking up the whole top ten. Public Enemy: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: Directed by Adam Bernstein. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).If we’re doing old school hip hop and Public Enemy and cover versions and and and… Well then we need to make sure we doff caps to PE and Tricky.

Public enemy black steel in the hour of chaos code#

Get the embed code Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions Album Lyrics1.Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos2.Bring the Noise3.Caught, Can We Get a Witness4.Countdown To Armageddon5.Louder Than a Bomb6.Mind Terrorist7.Night of the Living Baseheads8.Party for Your Right to Fight9.Prophets of Rage10.Rebel Without a Pause11.Security Of The First World12.She Watch Channel Zero?!13.Show ‘Em Watcha Got14.Terminator X To The Edge Of PanicPublic Enemy Lyrics provided by 'Cause the steel was black, the attitude exact Then they saw it was rougher than the average bluffer If I come out alive and then they won't, come cleanįlew up and to my surprise the water tower This is what I mean, an anti-nigger machine We had a force to instigate a prison riotīlack for black inside time to cut the leashįreedom to get out, to the ghetto, no sell outĦ C-Os we got we ought to put their head outīut I'll give 'em a chance, 'cause I'm civilizedĪs for the rest of the world, they can't realizeīetween bars, got me thinkin' like an animalīut I'm still a captive, I gotta rap this I had to get off, my boys had the feds in check My plan said I had to get out and break north Posing a threat, you bet it's fuckin' up the government I gave a warnin', I wanted the governor, y'all I grabbed his gun, then he did what I said so I got nothin' to lose, 'cause I'm goin' for the steel Sleepin' on the job, my plan is on go-ahead Word 'em up I'm looking for that steel (Yo man, we gon' break you outta there, man) (We ain't goin' out like that, man) Don't you know they got me rotting in the time that I'm serving Telling you what happened the same time they're throwing Four of us packed in a cell like slaves, oh well The same motherfucker got us living in his hell You have. I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fallĬell block and locked, I never clock it y'all I got gusto, but only some I can trust, yo The reasons are several, most of them federal You have to realize, what its a form of slavery The same motherfucker got us livin' is his hell Tellin' you what happened the same time they're throwin'Ĥ of us packed in a cell like slaves, oh well I got a raw deal, so I'm goin' for the steelĭon't you know, they got me rottin' in the time that I'm servin' They could not understand that I'm a Black man To criticize me some crime, never the less Public enemy servin' time, they drew the line y'all I gotta get out, but that thought was thought beforeīut a brother like me begun, to be another one Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Public Enemy Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos 12 Vinyl Record at the best online prices at. It occurred to me, the suckers had authority I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute They wanted me for their army or whatever