Public Enemy “Harder Than You Think” Video

While KRS-One & Marley Marl presented an album this year representing stories of where they’ve been Public Enemy just released an album telling the world where they are. Who would have thought that below the surface of bloated comedy channel roasts and reality show pimping Flava Flav is still somewhat relevant. That sentence can only be complete by adding why he’s relevant – because he is a member of Public Enemy. While if it weren’t for Flav Public Enemy wouldn’t be what it is today but if it weren’t for Chuck D Flava Flav wouldn’t be anything – period. Chuck’s lyrics on the first single from How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? are as strong as magnificent beat is magnificent; something which has been suspiciously absent during the majority of the group’s past few releases. The single already has its own wiki, “‘Harder Than You Think,” was the first single off of Public Enemy’s 2007 20th anniversary album How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?, and is symbolic of the first PE release twenty years ago. Flavor Flav redoes his Public Enemy Number One vocals and welds two eras together with uncanny precision.”

“Screamin’ ‘gangsta’ twenty years later of course endorse while consciousness faded, new generations believe in them fables gangsta boogie on two turntable.” KRS-One’s attempts to re-establish himself by emphasizing that he was there when MTV Raps hit the airwaves is muted by Chuck’s contention that gangsta rap is as much of a symbolistic joke now as it was then. “If you don’t stand for something you fall for anything;” while a standard thought, in a time when the legends are neglecting innovation and the majority emphasize limiting art, Public Enemy still stands for something – just like that!

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Also: Public Enemy @ Pitchfork Music Festival 2008