These are the true kings of rap. Show yo love.

1.Can't Truss It
2.Shut Em Down
3.Fight The Power
4.Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
5.She Watch Channel Zero

Fight the Power
Don't Believe the Hype
Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Burn Hollywood Burn
Shut Em Down

Hard for me to limit it to just those 5, because I think the entire Fear of a Black Planet is a solid album (my pick for the greatest rap album).

Fear has to many breaks between songs for my taste. Apocalypse is the great one.

2freaky4church1 said:

Nonetheless, I think it's a great album.

rebel without a pause
don't believe the hype
fight the power
911 is a joke
shut em down

Gotta Check out the radio ( early Pe then called "Spectrum City")
Rebel without a Pause
Black steel
Welcome to the terrordome
Night of the Living Baseheads

alot of that stuff was recorded at 510 south franklin st. in hempstead... actually down the block from my Grandmother's Old house
[This message was edited Sun Jul 25 12:47:17 2004 by TheRealFiness]

Fight The Power
Welcome To The Terrordome
Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Bring The Noize
Nighttrain

RipHer2Shreds said:

It is. Cuz I say so.

Nice post 2Freaky ! PE gotta be one of THE hardest groups for which to pick a top 5.
I could quite easily go with all the 5's listed so far as they are all masterpieces !

Only the other day I played the first 4 albums all straight - first timesId listend to PE for about 6-7 years. I was still getting goosebumps like when I first heard some of those tunes.

Top 5 today (off the top !):

Rebel Without A Pause
911 Is A Joke
Welcome To The Terrordome
Fight The Power
Cant Truss It

Can't Truss It (Love the video )
Bring the Noise (Did Anthrax cover this w/PE?)
911 Is a Joke
Burn Hollywood Burn
Fight the Power

Thanks for this thread because I've been thinking about this piece of trivia and now I've got a reason to use it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't LL Cool J's homey E Love the silhouette in the crosshairs of PE's logo?

UptownDeb said:

UptownDeb said:

No.... that Logo they had for many many many years... when they were called "Spectrum City" flav' used to own this Barber shop in freeport , and it had the logo in the window.... nah, it wasnt Earl lol..

TheRealFiness said:

I remember the E Love reference from way back. I never questioned it because E Love use to wear a hat like that and he sorta strikes that pose in LL's "I'm Bad" video. Anyway, I was too lazy to verify it, but since you said otherwise I had to check it out.

http://www.shutemdown.com/pehistory.htm

How did Public Enemy get it's logo?
Chuck D drew it himself. The silhouette is of E Love, who was L.L. Cool J's sidekick at the time.
[This message was edited Sun Jul 25 13:21:11 2004 by UptownDeb]

yep, no doubt. PE remains all time best rap group. can't slim it down to 5 tracks, sorry

"Fear of a black planet" is my fave album, closely followd by "It takes a nation" and "Apocalypse 91"

Welcome to the TerrorDome
Can't truss it
Night of the living base heads
Bring the noise
Fight the Power


and there are MANY MANY more..


Now, lets get to ERIC B AND RAKIM!!!!!

I consider them more a rock, then a rap group

way too hard to pick 5, but most honorable mention goes to Pete Rocks Shut em Down Remix

Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
911 is a Joke
Fight the Power
Public Enemy No. 1
Miuzi Weighs a Tonne