Bring The Noise - Public Enemy ( Original Video )

Well here goes, my first post for Black History Month as per the updates I posted. I shall start with my personal commentary and then insert the official commentary with links.

Hip-Hop........
Music has always been a way to unite and divide, calm and make emotional, as well as to voice dissent and frustration throughout mankind's history. I picked Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" not only due to the catchy lyrics and tunes, but because they were a voice of dissent and frustration within the Black Communities in NY and across America.

The status quo has always been perceived as "Look, you have this bit, be happy and calm and maybe you can get a little more". As a sign of the times where Black Americans were a bit tired of the status quo per se, Crack Cocaine was flooding the streets and the political and policing efforts on the War on Drugs was at it's height, Public Enemy forced another avenue of Hip Hop to form with a more forceful. militant and loud set of messages; mainly "We are not going to stand for the Status Quo".

Growing up in NY, I had the chance to see and hear them when I was allowed to go into the "city" and though already a fan, I found myself drawn to the "this is not all we can be" message. It also cemented my deep desire to serve my country, travel the world and experience more than what was just put in front of me. Bring the Noise was not their first hit I listened to, but it was one that evoked what I call a "Positive Rage" inside of me, whereas I I took all the good that was taught to me, focused it into a beam-like passion for success and used that rage to overcome the many obstacles put in front of me.

In the early world of Hip Hop, Public Enemy being the controversial, loud, boisterous, militant and socially conscious group to come out in those days was and still is a voice for Black Communities and this is why I chose them as my first post.


Public Enemy:
Formation and early years (1982–1986)
Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D) and William Drayton (Flavor Flav) met at Long Island's Adelphi University in the early-1980s. Developing his talents as an MC with Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record "Check Out the Radio", backed by "Lies", a social commentary—both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run–D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local MC who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene. This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D's songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled. Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Ali Hafezi and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song "Public Enemy Number One" Rubin had heard from Andre "Doctor Dré" Brown.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Enemy_(band)

"Bring the Noise" is a song by the American hip hop group Public Enemy. It was included on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Less Than Zero and was also released as a single that year. It later became the first song on the group's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The single reached #56 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_Noise

http://www.publicenemy.com/