Public Enemy Number Won - Public Enemy, Mike D, Ad-Rock

Yo, Mike D

Yo, what up Ad-Rock

Remember that time in '85 when we were in our van, we were driving through

Cleveland and…

Oh, oh, you had that weird rash all over your body

No!

I mean yes, but no-

I’m talking about when Rick gave us the demo tape for Public Enemy

Yo, we played that shit back and forth like about a million times

That shit was nice

So nice, you know I’ve been thinking

We should call Chuck D on the phone right now and ask him

What goes on?

I’m all in, put it up on the board

Another rapper shot down from the mouth that roared

1, 2, 3, down for the count

The result of my lyrics, oh yes no doubt

Cold rock-rap, forty-niner supreme

It’s what I choose and I use I never lose to a team

I can go solo like a Tyson bolo

Make a fly girl wanna have my photo

Run in their room hang it on the wall

In remembrance that I rocked them all

Suckers, ducks, ho-hum MC’s

You can’t rock the kid, so go cut the cheese

Take this application of rhymes like these

My rap’s red hot, hundred ten degrees

So don’t start bassin', I’ll start pushing

Bets on that you’ll be disgracin'

You and your mind for a beat in a rhyme

A time for a crime that I can’t find

I show you my gun, my Uzi weighs a ton

Because I’m Public Enemy number one

From the tippy tippy top

Never taking a L

Nobody rocks so hot, so well

Like the rugged D, the man you see

Rock it to the rhythm of the sure-shot beat

Say one for the treble, two for the bass

Rhyme for the mind, shine on your face

Three for the reign, and four for the two

Five cuz I’m live, it’s straight from the crew

Six for my game, nah I ain’t no stylist

Got my whole swag from two fifth and Hollis

Run got the wisdom, D got the knowledge

Straight from the dome, airtight and polished

Seven to the eight and nine times I say

Run gon' be great top ten today

Eleven emcees they all try to flex

When Run grab the mic and took flight in steps

There was a time when I was losing it

Alcohol I was abusing it

The wealth of health I wasn’t choosing it

To help myself I wasn’t doing it

Mom and dad, they mean a lot to me

They helped me get where I got to be

But they told me they adopted me

To help me fulfill prophecy

I did not know how I have enemy

Named Jack and Jim and Hennesey

They came with a smile befriending me

With the intent of ending me

Taking my power like Kryptonite

Cause it is known when I get to mic

I go into a zone and I rip the mic

Just like this rhyme that I spit tonight

You can’t understand how much it took

To kick their asses and leave 'em shook

Kill all the clowns and crush the crooks

Cuz I’m a superhero in the comic books

My make believe is your reality

I’m everything I pretend to be

Everything I need is inside of me

And anything else is the enemy

Terminator X

Before we get started

Now here’s a little story we got to tell

About a sound so def, you know so well

It started way back in history

With the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J

Run-DMC and Public Enemy

Rick was a label with two turntables

And a mic, MC’s do what you like

'83 beats in the place to be

'84 rhyming to open doors

Def to the Jam and know who I am

Stand 'till they jump and I crack the floors

I got a posse of force that back me up

Watch out we got rhythm to match

Ambush attack on my team, double team you get creamed

You got it so you don’t catch

Wanna hear it again

We got a force, Def Jam down

The OG circuit sound, Public Enemy

LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Flav, Run-DMC

Check out the protection

Rock The Bells in the section

Kicking like Bruce Lee’s Chinese Connection

All stereo never ever mono

All wax, yes I’m talking about vinyl

The world said freeze, we unfrozen

They got me

Public Enemy number one!

I’m like this y’all, I’m like this and this and this and this y’all

Check this y’all, I’m like this y’all

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to be a witness

To the one and only to DJ Lord

Public Enemy number one

We’re gonna let you hear that a little bit later

We’re gonna hear some words from some the Public Enemy

You stay tuned for that

'Cause we got a whole lot more in store