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Welcome To The Terrordome - Yeeeah Bwooyyyy!!

Earlier this month, we attended the World Premiere of the Public Enemy documentary Welcome To The Terror Dome at the 2007 AFI Festival in LA. Chuck D and Flava Flav were in attendance and were seeing the film for the first time. We felt very privileged to share this surreal moment with one of the most influential hip hop legends of all time. Some would argue along with Tom Morello, The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Talib Kwelli, Henry Rollins and Korn (who all appear in the film) that their influences reached wildly further than the obvious seminal musical masterpieces that they created.

Through the film we discover how a college idea turned into a revolution, and we follow the family (and its drama) behind one of biggest political mouthpieces of the last 20 years. It was 1987 when we first dropped the vinyl of Yo! Bum Rush The Show onto the turntables. But as the film looks at their sound, their style and the way in which they became a broadcast radio station, we see how the group was always on and always relevant.

This was an artist saying stuff you had never heard before and through music, the sampling and repackaging of James Brown and The Meters that you had also never heard before. Public Enemy smacked you into a hyper crunched sound that spread a message and punched their way through the late ’80s and the dark Reagan era. Too Black Too Strong. They conspired, undermined and amassed an enormous amount of influence to black and white audiences alike. Too much to be said about these guys not enough time.

Peep PE's new video "Black Is Back" here

And for posterity's sake lyrical madness:

"Rebel Without A Pause":

Yes - the rhythm, the rebel
Without a pause - I'm lowering my level
The hard rhymer - where you never been I'm in
You want stylin' - you know it's time again
D the enemy - tellin you to hear it
They praised the music - this time they play the lyrics
Some say no to the album, the show
Bum rush the sound I made a year ago
I guess you know - you guess I'm just a radical
Not a sabbatical - yes to make it critical
The only part your body should be parting to
Panther power on the hour from the rebel to you

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