theDonandOnly

4y

also, this is a good or bad thing depending on your view of current hip hop

but when it comes to spreading hip hop globally to audiences of all different races and backgrounds, public enemy were really important. in the uk for the 40+ year olds there's people who often say they were the only hip hop they listened to growing up. for a lot of people it was that and the beastie boys.

they still tour all over the world playing to thousands, you can't say that about most of their peers. they set up a lot of the paths we take for granted in 2020

rustcohlestan

4y

i agree that when it comes to spreading rap globally public enemy were really important. I’d even go so far as to say they were the NWA of conscious rap. beastie boys are also underrated in rap but for other reasons tho

theDonandOnly

4y

NWA were conscious too imo. not all the time like PE but it was there.

If you think about songs like F*** Tha Police, that's public enemy combined with everything that had happened in rap since it takes a nation and the NWA sound and content.

f*** tha police is like a 90s fight the power type anthem. it's radical too really, it was putting out a message the media would rather not talk about. that's really what chuck d wanted for hip hop, education through music and entertainment.

rustcohlestan

4y

not trying to say NWA weren’t conscious in their own right because they were. what i meant by that was public enemy opened the door for so many conscious artists and birthed a lot of them just like what NWA did with gangsta rap

Amphernee Hardaway

4y

Too revolutionary. Almost unrelatable to.the average listener.

Comes off too preachy without having enough of a connection to the audience for them.to carr to listen.

Hes top 25 MC's all time tho.