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* ChartDisplacement: "Give It Up" may have been their only Top 49 hit, but it isn't nearly as known as "Bring the Noise" or "Fight the Power".

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* ChartDisplacement: "Give It Up" may have been their only Top 49 40 hit, but it isn't nearly as known as "Bring the Noise" or "Fight the Power".
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* ChartDisplacement: "Give It Up" may have been their only Top 49 hit, but it isn't nearly as known as "Bring the Noise" or "Fight the Power".
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%%* {{Corpsing}}: Flav at the end of "Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man".

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%%* * {{Corpsing}}: Flav at the end of The outro to "Can't Do Nuttin' for Nuttin For Ya Man".Man" has Flav doing this while spitting some silly disses.



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* NamesTheSame - There have been three bands called Public Enemy in different subgenres of HardcorePunk - including a white power band that took on the name as a deliberate TakeThat aimed at the hip-hop one.




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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There have been three bands called Public Enemy in different subgenres of HardcorePunk - including a white power band that took on the name as a deliberate TakeThat aimed at the hip-hop one.
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* [[GatewaySeries Gateway Music]]: PE were this for thousands of -- mostly white -- new fans to Hip-Hop in the late-80's, early-90's. They have a reputation for this to this day, at least for those [[PeripheryDemographic new to the genre]].
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* ArtistDisillusionment: In "Rebel Without A Pause" (from ''Nation of Millions''), Chuck D rapped, "Tables turn, suckers burn to learn, they can't disable the power of my label/Def Jam, tells you who I am." In the grand tradition of rapper-hates-his-record-company, Public Enemy and Def Jam officially cut ties in early 1999.



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* OneHitWonder: By the definition (only one entry in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100) in the US, with their now-mostly forgotten 1994 single "Give It Up", which made it to #33.

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* NamesTheSame - There have been three bands called Public Enemy in different subgenres of HardcorePunk - including a white power band that took on the name as a deliberate TakeThat aimed at the hip-hop one.

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* [[GatewaySeries Gateway Music]]: PE were this for thousands of -- mostly white -- new fans to Hip-Hop in the late-80's, early-90's. They have a reputation for this to this day, at least for those [[PeripheryDemographic new to the genre]].
* NamesTheSame - There have been three bands called Public Enemy in different subgenres of HardcorePunk - including a white power band that took on the name as a deliberate TakeThat aimed at the hip-hop one.one.

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