Jeremy B We don’t hate white people, we hate racial division and how black people weren’t in movies as leading roles or even as background characters often
Actually Cube helped break the stereotype of what roles African Americans can play in movies. During this time though they were still struggling to get meaningful roles.
You can say what you want about Cube but I will say this. You have never seen him taking on a role degrading his masculinity. He may have took on some roles that were contraversal at times but, you will never see him in a dress,acting feminine, or getting shot in the ass.He hasn't taken on any roles that have made the black man look weak and submissive to the power structure. Cube may be in Hollywood but,he hasn't become hollywood. He is doing it his way and I respect him for that.
got to give Ice Cube the props because he is the only few rappers who did something about the negativity voiced in this song about the discrepancies of Hollywood depictions of Blacks because he has been instrumental in making positive movies about Blacks.
And then the feature presentation was another degrading movie Driving Miss Daisy...lol... this song was recorded in 1989,Driving Miss Daisy and Steel Magnolias were the two whitest movies that were considered Blockbusters by many.
Hollywood really does need to burn. Sexual deviants at the highest levels telling everybody what to think, in Hi-Def 3D with lots of CGI. Movies suck nowadays. Sequels, reboots and gender switching. Anyone looking forward to the new Ghostbusters? No? Gee I wonder why? Burn Hollywood burn.
This song is about changing the stereotypes of blacks in film, not to avoid films. I think it is great that they were able to break through to make the films they wanted.
This is the video version. It's a different mix. i remember because when I bought the album in high school, the uncut mix is way different than what I saw when I watched the video. I don't like the lyric censoring, but I prefer this mix of the track.
This is a brilliant track, great collaboration, hits hard and you don't need to be black to appreciate what's being said, takes guts to make a track like this, and no one does anymore
I probably shouldn't say this because there was clearly a message to convey in the track - but lyrics aside for a moment if I may, this was as funky AF.
@Kalsiddon4ever even reggae hippies like me love this kind of music man...it has something to say...its not about :"gangsta".money,chicks and other miserable stuff like today's rap...THIS IS TRUE HIP HOP
Man one of the best rap song in history definitly! the meaning of that song's so real and still going on today infortunately, even if it's better than in the past + Big Daddy Kane ripped it to the fullest
He also starred in Barbershop, Barbershop II, and had a pivotal role in Boyz N The Hood. Of course, we can't forget Cuba Gooding Jr, who won an Oscar for Jerry Maquire.
personally I would say Richard Pryor, Robert Townsend & Keenan Wayans definitely opened those doors for Cube but I can see your point. Friday, & don't get me wrong it's a great movie, did make hollywood realize just how profitable he could be.
What??? He is actually know for speed. Listen to Looks like a job for..., Set it off, Terra in ya erra, Raw. He was one of the early pioneers of fast flow
Would you been happy if he played a niggah killing, king pin, drug dealer instead of a business man that willing to take care of and raise some blacks kids? Like BDK said “Let’s make our own movies” and Ice Cube did just that! A whole bunch of actors became legendary after ICE CUBE put them in Friday and not one was ever called a sell out. So watch what you speak before slandering that black man.
Flav was the hype man. A job he does well, but I must agree with bigg about flav listening to this song before he does another show. I met Bob Sumner a few years back and we talked about Flav's show and he pretty much said it was all about the money, so Wubsta, you're right too. Still PE, best rap act ever.
THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS SONG WITH **ALL NEW VERSES** .....THEY NEED TO ADDRESS THESE NEW AGE BLACK MOVIES THAT EVEN MAKES AFRICAN AMERICANS EVEN WORSE THAN EVER.....AND THESE MOVIES ARE NOT EVEN PRO DUCE TOTALLY BY **COMPETENT** BLACK PRODUCERS.....
***** I have to agree. Love PE Ice and Kane and this track was great for it's day, but it isn't a black and white thing anymore. Hollywood should burn for all atrocities - not just 100 year old minstrel shows and films.
@InThisRain last I checked, Ice Cube was making movies and shows with BLACK people. That's the point of the song: movies and shows with black people. A black man can't make it without someone having something to say.
Black actors that have NOT sold out: Denzel Washington Samuel L. Jackson Lawerence Fishbourge Ice Cude Forrest Whittaker Wesley Snipes Spike Lee Morris Chestnut Don Cheddle Blair Underwood Mario Van Pebles Vin Desel Dwayne Johnson Omar Epps Larenz Tate Dereck Luke Cuba Gooding Jr. Omar Gooding Chris Tucker Dave Chappeale Just to name a few and I can see that Tyler Perry is comming around
Obviously, this song doesn't have as much significance these days because black actors like Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Cuba Gooding Jr. have all won Oscars. That and the fact that more black celebs such as Derek Luke, Regina King, and Taye Diggs have been offered bigger roles in Hollywood movies.
funny how this song now represents whats happened to popular rap music. Governments sure got wise to groups like PE.. knowing how powerful music can be.
I'd just like to say that Chuck D. has the best rap voice ever.
No doubt even now its flawless
Correct
Both in tone and more importantly in content.
My Mt Rushmore is Chuck, Cube, KRS One, & Rakim
@@TheIgorSnowden nice!!!
It's between Chuck and DMC for me.
Should have played this at the Oscars, that would have really got the point across!
Kotan I said this as well.
💯
I love everything about this song. I love the message. My dad used to blast this tape when I was little.
Stunning
Jeremy B We don’t hate white people, we hate racial division and how black people weren’t in movies as leading roles or even as background characters often
you deserve a sub LaChele
Can you imagine Jay-Z, Drake, and Lil Wayne collaborating to do a record blasting Hollywood?
Nah. I can't either.
+finisher3x i was about to say no but i saw the rest of your comment lol
+finisher3x LLS!! I was about to say NO too!!
JAY Z CAN ONLY DO A REACORD ON HIS BROTHER JOE CAMEL .. THATS HIS TWIN
How about Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell with the MAFT?
finisher3x 😂
Actually Cube helped break the stereotype of what roles African Americans can play in movies. During this time though they were still struggling to get meaningful roles.
You can say what you want about Cube but I will say this. You have never seen him taking on a role degrading his masculinity. He may have took on some roles that were contraversal at times but, you will never see him in a dress,acting feminine, or getting shot in the ass.He hasn't taken on any roles that have made the black man look weak and submissive to the power structure. Cube may be in Hollywood but,he hasn't become hollywood. He is doing it his way and I respect him for that.
Yup , way to many dudes letting ca$h turn them into pussy sellouts.
@@dragonsnatch1146 I agree
Why associate and devalue feminity as weak?
He's totally Hollywood. He's all up inside that bubble and his irrational anger is very feminine.
Lee lol “irrational anger”. That’s a great look...
This is music with power. Mid fifties white middle class guy who was once a punk, in England, returns to music like this to keep the anger alive.
Perfect timing 2020 ⏰ up
East and West Connection right there Luv it. These are the pioneers
Big Daddy Kane. WOW!!!!! Smooth and literate. Something lost on today's hip hop artists.
Driving Miss Daisy being rejected for Black Caesar......gets me everytime :)
Chuck d is a beast!!!!!!!! Rhyme skill and flow and delivery are remarkable. Kane ad Ice cube are legends . This is so dope.
The best rappers in the world in just one video...now thats what im talkin bout! and yeah...Burn Hollywood Burn!
i like this more than usual right now - just watched the oscars. go chuck d and spike lee.
Interesting how with all the great messages put out by artists such as PE, we still have people selling their dignity in Hollywood everyday.
Depuis le temps que j'écoute P.E (89,90),j'avais jamais fais gaffe que Ice Cube avait posé sur ce son,mortel!!
Favorite song off the album.
Gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it.
Kane had the best verse.
got to give Ice Cube the props because he is the only few rappers who did something about the negativity voiced in this song about the discrepancies of Hollywood depictions of Blacks because he has been instrumental in making positive movies about Blacks.
The Golden Ages of REAL Hip Hop!! #missthe80s&90s
May 2020, fitting song!
Chuck D and Ice Cube.. Probably 2 of the most political rappers to ever step foot into the rap game together on a track.. doesnt get better then that!
Here in France, even metalheads LOVE Oldschool rap. Chuck D we love you. Kisses from Paris !
Best Public Enemy song ever.
BIG DADDY!
great colaboration from musicians who were on top in the beginning 90`
Burn Hollywood,Burn Hollywood,Burn Hollywood,Burn,Burn,Burn,Burn Hollywood!The Revolution,will be televised.R.I.P. Malcolm X!R.I.P.,Tupac Amaru Shakur!
In 2020 hollywood is in trouble..hehe
One of my favorite hip-hop collabos ever!
2019 still 🔥🔥🔥
Yo Holly wood is on 🔥🔥 🔥🔥 🔥 literally karma a bitch
I wonder if Cube still feels the same way
LOL, I wonder the same about him when I think about the song 'Stay True To The Game'. It's amazing what time and money does to people.
***** Nah, it's all about the dollar bill now. Money ruined rap and hip hop music.
Connor Freeman Someone should ask Flava Flava the same question given his questionable body of acting work!
CCJJ160Channels Money ruined everything period..
naw, he's was always a studio gangsta.
Missed the point that Cube wanted to see Steel Magnolias and Chuck D wasn't feeling it.
Straight up.
Cube was being facetious on purpose
And then the feature presentation was another degrading movie Driving Miss Daisy...lol... this song was recorded in 1989,Driving Miss Daisy and Steel Magnolias were the two whitest movies that were considered Blockbusters by many.
All time fav P.E Video clip!..
Hollywood really does need to burn. Sexual deviants at the highest levels telling everybody what to think, in Hi-Def 3D with lots of CGI.
Movies suck nowadays. Sequels, reboots and gender switching. Anyone looking forward to the new Ghostbusters?
No? Gee I wonder why?
Burn Hollywood burn.
This song is about changing the stereotypes of blacks in film, not to avoid films. I think it is great that they were able to break through to make the films they wanted.
No respect for anything censored this badly. Play the song as it was written
Yea, this is NOT how I remembered it.
Cut to peices.
This is the video version. It's a different mix. i remember because when I bought the album in high school, the uncut mix is way different than what I saw when I watched the video. I don't like the lyric censoring, but I prefer this mix of the track.
Thank you PE, Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle), John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles (Panther 95')and Ryan Coogler (Creed and Black Panther).
Public Enemy Forever
Big Daddy Kane is dooooope! Godammit
This is a brilliant track, great collaboration, hits hard and you don't need to be black to appreciate what's being said, takes guts to make a track like this, and no one does anymore
I probably shouldn't say this because there was clearly a message to convey in the track - but lyrics aside for a moment if I may, this was as funky AF.
man this is hip hop at its finest :-D
Ok This song Deserves more than A Billion MFUq Views. But start with the first Million, anyone with me ??
Ice Cube is down with the PE! G.O.A.T
If a bomb had gone off in that cinema we would have lost so much.
Boycott the Oscars 2K16
+ninetoedbuddha lol
Wouldnt hurt to have a remix/reup but glad to have this at least
Big Daddy Kane was the Shit,, all the 80s thru mid 90s rap was smooth
@Kalsiddon4ever hell yea, i'm a metal head and this old skool rap is the shit, I used to listen to this alot back then.
2 decades and this is still relevant like on the first day.
This was one of my fav songs on this album.
@Kalsiddon4ever even reggae hippies like me love this kind of music man...it has something to say...its not about :"gangsta".money,chicks and other miserable stuff like today's rap...THIS IS TRUE HIP HOP
as a huge metal music fan and a complete rap hater......i must admit, public enemy are pretty cooool
I'm a metalhead and I happen to love Old School rap
Never has this song been more true. #hypocritehollywood
Man one of the best rap song in history definitly! the meaning of that song's so real and still going on today infortunately, even if it's better than in the past + Big Daddy Kane ripped it to the fullest
@InThisRain Actually he's doing just what this song says, he's making his own movies and TV shows.
best hip-hop track ever atm it seems....funk-y
He also starred in Barbershop, Barbershop II, and had a pivotal role in Boyz N The Hood. Of course, we can't forget Cuba Gooding Jr, who won an Oscar for Jerry Maquire.
Here in COLOMBIA, even metalheads like oldschool rap. Terminator X we love you. Kisses from BOGOTÁ. (Excusme by the copy)
That is by far one of the best comments in hip hop
New rappers will not say this because theyknow who rules over them 🇮🇱. Just look who they cannot criticize. Burn Hollywood burn!
Top mix!!
personally I would say Richard Pryor, Robert Townsend & Keenan Wayans definitely opened those doors for Cube but I can see your point. Friday, & don't get me wrong it's a great movie, did make hollywood realize just how profitable he could be.
Holly wood is literally on 🔥 🔥 🔥🔥 🔥🔥 🔥🔥 🔥🔥 🔥🔥 🔥 as of November 2019 ahh can you dig it
STRAIGHT UP CLASSIC!!!!
Big daddy kane had the best verse because he is the best MC of all 3
+Joaquin Gonzalez In terms of what? He isn't skillfull.
+sadsdasdasdasddasd I've never heard/seen anyone say/type Kane isn't skillful.
DjTIMEJD
He has really slow flow, so he isn't skillful. FIN
Jeune con !
What??? He is actually know for speed. Listen to Looks like a job for..., Set it off, Terra in ya erra, Raw. He was one of the early pioneers of fast flow
Hot Throwback 🔥🔥🔥🔥Legends
Classic joint!
“Let’s check out a flick that exploits the color”
...does the Friday series.
Would you been happy if he played a niggah killing, king pin, drug dealer instead of a business man that willing to take care of and raise some blacks kids? Like BDK said “Let’s make our own movies” and Ice Cube did just that! A whole bunch of actors became legendary after ICE CUBE put them in Friday and not one was ever called a sell out. So watch what you speak before slandering that black man.
Flav was the hype man. A job he does well, but I must agree with bigg about flav listening to this song before he does another show. I met Bob Sumner a few years back and we talked about Flav's show and he pretty much said it was all about the money, so Wubsta, you're right too. Still PE, best rap act ever.
this is so much more relevant now then it was then
Minneapolis must of heard this song before there riot.
Public enemy is the best 💯
Stacey Dash would not like this song!
Great classic✌️
THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS SONG WITH **ALL NEW VERSES** .....THEY NEED TO ADDRESS THESE NEW AGE BLACK MOVIES THAT EVEN MAKES AFRICAN AMERICANS EVEN WORSE THAN EVER.....AND THESE MOVIES ARE NOT EVEN PRO DUCE TOTALLY BY **COMPETENT** BLACK PRODUCERS.....
***** I have to agree. Love PE Ice and Kane and this track was great for it's day, but it isn't a black and white thing anymore. Hollywood should burn for all atrocities - not just 100 year old minstrel shows and films.
Tyler Perry BS stupid ass films. Before you get it twisted I'm black.
one of the best rap ever
GREAT PUBLIC ENEMY...from italy
this song has a heap of truth in it.
this song is awesome..
@InThisRain last I checked, Ice Cube was making movies and shows with BLACK people. That's the point of the song: movies and shows with black people. A black man can't make it without someone having something to say.
Black actors that have NOT sold out:
Denzel Washington
Samuel L. Jackson
Lawerence Fishbourge
Ice Cude
Forrest Whittaker
Wesley Snipes
Spike Lee
Morris Chestnut
Don Cheddle
Blair Underwood
Mario Van Pebles
Vin Desel
Dwayne Johnson
Omar Epps
Larenz Tate
Dereck Luke
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Omar Gooding
Chris Tucker
Dave Chappeale
Just to name a few and I can see that Tyler Perry is comming around
Loved this song
Obviously, this song doesn't have as much significance these days because black actors like Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Cuba Gooding Jr. have all won Oscars. That and the fact that more black celebs such as Derek Luke, Regina King, and Taye Diggs have been offered bigger roles in Hollywood movies.
Thanx to Tony Hawk's Underground for puttin' me on to game rns!
This is scathing!!! I LOVE IT
kane killed it. like he always does.
Some of the best lyrics every.
Even cube in his prime , chuck and flavour are outgunned against the formidable kane
*flavor's just a servant that chuckles a little bit and sings*
Damn straight. The kosher nostra has them all in CHECK.
dedication to the piratebay film like peter said " in your face hollywood "
funny i wonder if the Academy knows about this song.
only a person living under a rock didn't know this song
@@kelilalitadasi4813 this song is 30 years old. Who doesn't know about this song
funny how this song now represents whats happened to popular rap music. Governments sure got wise to groups like PE.. knowing how powerful music can be.
Cube's verse was short but it was the hardest and realest
classic song
"get pulled to the curb? get played liked a sucka?
don't fight the power, shoot the motha fucka"
Ice Cube was raw back in the day
Classic track
i LOVE the beat to this FIYA!!!!!!
2020 back checking out this record!! Still monumental! Where’s all the truth at in the music today? Al Bums is down with the PE! BHB!
ce sont de vrai rebels. bcp de respect. le noir comme revendication
"Ice Cube is down with the PE"! Classic!