Public Enemy

Released: October 4, 2005

Featuring: Moby

Songwriter: Flavor Flav Moby Chuck D

Producer: Moby

[Intro: Flavor Flav X2]
Moby PE, Moby PE, Moby PE!!
Moby PE, Moby PE, Moby PE!!
Moby PE, Moby PE, Moby PE!!
YEAH!!

[Chuck D Overlapping the intro]
Just gonna drop this on one of those Moby Beats
This is Chuck D, check it out
Here we go, COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Fingers in the air, like you really give a damn
Peace sign up, let me hear you say: YEAH!!
Power to The People, put your hands in the air
Peace sign high, like you really do care
Fingers in the air, like you really give a damn
Peace sign up, let me hear you say: YEAH!!
Power to The People, put your hands in the air
Peace sign high, like you really do care
COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!

[Verse One: Chuck D]
Rather be sitting just to get in it
Power to the people not the governments
Capitalists, communists and terrorists
Swear to God, I don't know the difference
Making new slaves out of the immigrants
Want to know where all the money went
Another trillion spent by the government
Here the bomb go, sent by the presidents
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!

[Verse Two: Chuck D]
Tell the leaders, they got to feed us
Grand Theft Oil, gonna bleed us
New World Order, doesn't need us
Call for peace, better heed us
Dictators, Human Haters
Hand on the bomb, Mass Debators
Finger on the button, infiltrators
MAKE LOVE, FUCK WAR, PEACE WILL SAVE US!
Yeah, COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!
Break it now, break it now

[Hook: Flavor Flav]
Check one two..
We want everybody to put this sign up in the air
And at the count of three
Everybody tell me what this sign means: PEACE!!
COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!! COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!

[Outro: Overvoice]
They are not really aware
That they know some shit is going on in this country somewhere
There is a lot of people don't know where is that..
The thinks that the black people doing it, shit!

Public Enemy is one of the most influential and powerful groups in the history of music. They are known for their conscious, pro-Black, politically charged messages from the “hard rhymer” Chuck D mixed with a bit of comic relief from Flavor Flav over sample-heavy production from The Bomb Squad. Along with DJ Terminator X, Professor Griff and the S1W (Security of the First World), Public Enemy released several classic albums and helped globalize hip-hop with their international live shows.

Chuck D and Flavor Flav met at Long Island’s Adelphi University and their first creation was the track “Public Enemy No. 1” while Chuck was working at the radio station WBAU. This song led to Public Enemy officially forming and signing with Def Jam Recordings in 1986, leading them to opening on tour for the Beastie Boys as they supported their classic debut album Licensed To Ill.

PE released a string of critically acclaimed albums, starting with their 1987 debut Yo! Bum Rush the Show, followed by their classic sophomore album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, Fear of a Black Planet in 1990, and Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black in 1991. They also released the anthem “Fight the Power” in 1989 as the theme song for Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing.

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