Public Enemy

: See The Public Enemy for the 1931 movie and Public Enemy (documentary) for the 1999 Black Panthers documentary film.

Origin of name

Chuck D had put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station he was working at the time) and

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to fend off a local rapper who wanted to battle him. He called the tape

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Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene.

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This was the first reference to the notion of a "Public Enemy" in any of Chuck D's songs. The single

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was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav though this was before the group

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Public Enemy was assembled.

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