I refuse to pick between these two sides from the greatest rap group of all time.

PE had it all, Grown Man Rap™, brilliant visuals, performance,

and take home literature in the form of extensive liner notes.

Is complete beautiful chaos, the Bomb Squad at the console, Chuck on the mic, Terminator X (or Johnny Juice) on the wheels and Flav as the ultimate sideman/human echo chamber. This song in addition to Public Enemy #1 and Don’t Believe the Hype, all share the signature PE sound, it halts you as you hear it;  Chuck D could be giving you a recipe for tuna casserole and it would sound better than 95% of all other rappers.

ONION,
make sure you chop it fine,
saute it with a little bit of cooking wine.

Boil the pasta, seven minutes

AL DENTE!
Pepper-mill spin it.
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Night of the Living Baseheads

—HERE IT IS…BAM!

Could Chuck have predicted that this entire song would be flipped to count the drug dealer as hero in less than a year from his penning this? This indictment on crack and cocaine use was the flag in the Air for Rap music with a message (even besting THE Message, one could argue).

When they played this at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City with Digital Underground, Kwame and Ice Cube, (1991) the crowd went dumb, myself included.  Medallions waving, dudes rhyming in unison, hands waving, all caught up in an anti crack message.  Brilliant.

After the  concert, there was a melee in the concert hall, followed by shootings and a murder outside the venue as we were leaving.  Guns are dumb.