Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

[The_Hillsta]

 

[Big Mel]

Very apropos.

 

[infamousred]

that beat switch @ 3:32
classic track
perfect for mlk day

 

[The_Hillsta]

Can't remember if it was BET or MTV, but I saw the video when it first premiered only once, shyt got snatched with the quickness

 

[Big Mel]

Wasn't Barkley vocal about the Arizona/MLK issue or did I dream that?

 

[Wild self]

Can't remember if it was BET or MTV, but I saw the video when it first premiered only once, shyt got snatched with the quickness

I remember that shyt!

 

[Karamellion]

This track has one of the dopest beats of all time. When Chuck goes in, he goes in hard.. this is the epitome, of Public Enemy.

 

[criminology]

That loop still has me

And the fact they were talking about going to kill a senator

 

[saturn7]

McCain's bytch ass was against the MLK Holiday IIRC and Reagan was celebrating when he was killed calling him a terrorist

 

[boskey]

"Whats a smiling face when the whole states racist"

 

[The_Hillsta]

Man the music ALWAYS takes you back....I mean shyt, you had Do The Right Thing all up in the theater couple years prior. Fight The Power was damn near the theme in every black household, PE drops Can't Truss It a couple years later.....Video is on every muthafukkin station, shyt was gettin play on the radio every 5 minutes (That trumpet loop every time you heard it ), the video had everybody n they mama LITERALLY goin to work n school mad thana muthafukka with the . Without even givin muthafukkas a chance to breathe PE Drop Shut Em Down, nikkaz coming to school with that shyt designed in they high top fades, no bullshyt. By The Time I Get To AZ drops and that shyt was like the last straw Video got pulled......But wait, Cube come through n drop Death Certificate in the same muthafukkin month or damn near close if I ain't mistaken.......That just a smidgen of the late 80's - 91 and we aint even hit the muthafukkin riots yet in 92.......Precursors like a mafukka

 

[Wild self]

That loop still has me

And the fact they were talking about going to kill a senator

Today's rapper that brags about clothes and riches are scared of even saying "fukk the police." Even some of the old rappers are scared of talking shyt to racist white people because they in it for the money. Hip Hop always needs a PE to keep shyt on point.

 

[Jone2three45]

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[criminology]

Today's rapper that brags about clothes and riches are scared of even saying "fukk the police." Even some of the old rappers are scared of talking shyt to racist white people because they in it for the money. Hip Hop always needs a PE to keep shyt on point.

I hate it when they throw up the for chuck d. this song is still tough. i wish someone as mainstream today as PE was then would release a song half this good.

 

[Wild self]

I hate it when they throw up the for chuck d. this song is still tough. i wish someone as mainstream today as PE was then would release a song half this good.

Chuck D is way too mature and intelligent for him to be when he still tours the world and still makes grown-folks music. If he was acting like 2 Chainz, then I would agree. Rap music makes a lot of 30+ heads embrace immaturity and ignorance like none other.