Friday, October 31, 2008
Video: Pharoahe Monch - "Welcome To The Terrordome"
Too little too late? From an album I thought was one of the best of 2007 and proof that an MC can do a credible, fresh & interesting cover of an old hip hop song:
No! The visual content and the song itself couldn't be more timely.
I remember when the orginal version dropped. It was the lead single from the follow-up album, Fear of a Black Planet, to the neutron bomb that was Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions... and the "Fight the Power" single which was the theme song to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. After those two landmarks, the group and Chuck D had the attention of the entire hip hop nation and the world - the only group bigger or (possibly) more important than them was U2. People would have literally gone to war for Chuck if he had decreed it, that's how big and influential PE were at the time. Anyway, relive a time when it felt like hip hop could change not only the way you thought or looked at the world but that world itself:
Public Enemy - "Welcome To The Terrordome" [YouTube link]
Online:
Check out the Pharoahe Monch - "Welcome To The Terrordome" blog here.
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No! The visual content and the song itself couldn't be more timely.
I remember when the orginal version dropped. It was the lead single from the follow-up album, Fear of a Black Planet, to the neutron bomb that was Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions... and the "Fight the Power" single which was the theme song to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. After those two landmarks, the group and Chuck D had the attention of the entire hip hop nation and the world - the only group bigger or (possibly) more important than them was U2. People would have literally gone to war for Chuck if he had decreed it, that's how big and influential PE were at the time. Anyway, relive a time when it felt like hip hop could change not only the way you thought or looked at the world but that world itself:
Public Enemy - "Welcome To The Terrordome" [YouTube link]
Online:
Check out the Pharoahe Monch - "Welcome To The Terrordome" blog here.
Labels: Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch, Public Enemy
