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• PUBLIC ENEMY BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS CODE

"Music has always been a backdrop to my life,” he says, "and my dad's fascination with the equipment, wiring the entire house with speakers that were connected to multiple amplifiers, led to me fiddling around with electronics, tearing apart speakers and amps to see what makes them tick. But when you can communicate and move people around the world there's another element that's happening.” Early LearningĪ Long Island native, Shocklee grew up during the 1960s listening to the jazz that was piped into every room of the family home by his audiophile father, the African music that he was introduced to by his concert pianist mother (who also coached him on the keyboard), the reggae played by his West Indian grandmother and the soul records that he heard at his cousins' place in Harlem. "Forget about all the bells and whistles, the beads and socially conscious rhymes - everybody can do that. "It was underrated in its ability to communicate,” he continues with regard to the hardcore‑politico outfit. Known for his sonically distinctive production style that introduced raucous, multi‑textured rap, rock and punk sounds to the hip‑hop records of LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane and EPMD, it was Shocklee's work with Public Enemy that helped elevate the genre to unprecedented heights while transporting the entire pop music scene into previously uncharted territory. "One of the things that's amazing to me is the fact that, over 22 years since Public Enemy were formed, I can still do an interview and people will know about a group that really didn't sell a lot of records,” says Hank Shocklee. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Hank Shocklee's collaboration with Public Enemy brought a new aggression to hip‑hop - both sonically and politically.įlavor Flav knows what time it is.

PUBLIC ENEMY BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS CODE

Get the embed code Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions Album Lyrics1.Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos2.Bring the Noise3.Caught, Can We Get a Witness4.Countdown To Armageddon5.Louder Than a Bomb6.Mind Terrorist7.Night of the Living Baseheads8.Party for Your Right to Fight9.Prophets of Rage10.Rebel Without a Pause11.Security Of The First World12.She Watch Channel Zero?!13.Show ‘Em Watcha Got14.Terminator X To The Edge Of PanicPublic Enemy Lyrics provided by 'Cause the steel was black, the attitude exact Then they saw it was rougher than the average bluffer If I come out alive and then they won't, come cleanįlew up and to my surprise the water tower This is what I mean, an anti-nigger machine We had a force to instigate a prison riotīlack for black inside time to cut the leashįreedom to get out, to the ghetto, no sell outĦ C-Os we got we ought to put their head outīut I'll give 'em a chance, 'cause I'm civilizedĪs for the rest of the world, they can't realizeīetween bars, got me thinkin' like an animalīut I'm still a captive, I gotta rap this I had to get off, my boys had the feds in check My plan said I had to get out and break north Posing a threat, you bet it's fuckin' up the government I gave a warnin', I wanted the governor, y'all I grabbed his gun, then he did what I said so I got nothin' to lose, 'cause I'm goin' for the steel Sleepin' on the job, my plan is on go-ahead I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fallĬell block and locked, I never clock it y'all I got gusto, but only some I can trust, yo The reasons are several, most of them federal You have to realize, what its a form of slavery

The same motherfucker got us livin' is his hell Tellin' you what happened the same time they're throwin'Ĥ of us packed in a cell like slaves, oh well I got a raw deal, so I'm goin' for the steelĭon't you know, they got me rottin' in the time that I'm servin' They could not understand that I'm a Black man To criticize me some crime, never the less

Public enemy servin' time, they drew the line y'all I gotta get out, but that thought was thought beforeīut a brother like me begun, to be another one It occurred to me, the suckers had authority I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute They wanted me for their army or whatever