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Public Enemy
American hip hop group
For other uses, see Public Enemy (disambiguation).For technical reasons, "Public Enemy #1" redirects here. For uses of that term, see Public Enemy No.
1 (disambiguation).
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav in Roosevelt, New York, in 1985.[2][3] The group rose to prominence for their political messages including subjects such as American racism and the American media.
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Their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim, and their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), was the first hip hop album to top The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[4] Their next three albums, Fear of a Black Planet (1990), Apocalypse 91...
The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) and Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994), were also well received. The group has since released twelve more studio albums, including the soundtrack