Donu2019t Believe the Hype
Public Enemy

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Caught you lookin' for the same thing

It's a new thing, check out this I bring

Uh Oh the roll below the level

'Cause I'm livin' low next to the bass, c'mon

Turn up the radio

They claim that I'm a criminal

By now I wonder how

Some people never know

The enemy could be their friend, guardian

I'm not a hooligan

I rock the party and

Clear all the madness, I'm not a racist

Preach to teach to all

'Cause some they never had this

Number one, not born to run

About the gun

I wasn't licensed to have one

The minute they see me, fear me

I'm the epitome, a public enemy

Used, abused without clues

I refused to blow a fuse

They even had it on the news

Don't believe the hype

Yes

Was the start of my last jam

So here it is again, another def jam

But since I gave you all a little something

That we knew you lacked

They still consider me a new jack

All the critics you can hang 'em

I'll hold the rope

But they hope to the pope

And pray it ain't dope

The follower of Farrakhan

Don't tell me that you understand

Until you hear the man

The book of the new school rap game

Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane

Yes to them, but to me I'm a different kind

We're brothers of the same mind, unblind

Caught in the middle and

Not surrenderin'

I don't rhyme for the sake of of riddlin'

Some claim that I'm a smuggler

Some say I never heard of 'ya

A rap burglar, false media

We don't need it do we?

It's fake that's what it be to 'ya, dig me?

Don't believe the hype

Don't believe the hype, its a sequel

As an equal, can I get this through to you

My 98's boomin' with a trunk of funk

All the jealous punks can't stop the dunk

Comin' from the school of hard knocks

Some perpetrate, they drink Clorox

Attack the black, 'cause I know they lack exact

The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox

Leader of the new school, uncool

Never played the fool, just made the rules

Remember there's a need to get alarmed

Again I said I was a timebomb

In the daytime the radio's scared of me

'Cause I'm mad, plus I'm the enemy

They can't c'mon and play with me in primetime

'Cause I know the time, plus I'm gettin' mine

I get on the mix late in the night

They know I'm livin' right, so here go the mike, sike

Before I let it go, don't rush my show

You try to reach and grab and get elbowed

Word to herb, yo if you can't swing this

Just a little bit of the taste of the bass for you

As you get up and dance at the LQ

When some deny it, defy if I swing bolos

Then they clear the lane I go solo

The meaning of all of that

Some media is the whack

You believe it's true, it blows me through the roof

Suckers, liars get me a shovel

Some writers I know are damn devils

For them I say don't believe the hype

Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?

Their pens and pads I'll snatch

'Cause I've had it

I'm not an addict fiendin' for static

I'll see their tape recoreder and grab it

No, you can't have it back silly rabbit

I'm going' to my media assassin

Harry Allen, I gotta ask him

Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?

Don't believe the hype

I got flavor and all those things you know

Yeah boy, part two bum rush and show

Yo Griff, get the green black red and

Gold down countdown to Armageddon

88 you wait the S1Ws will

Rock the hard jams, treat it like a seminar

Teach the bourgeois, and rock the boulevard

Some sau I'm negative

But they're not positive

But what I got to give

The media says this


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  ...And No One Broadcasted Louder Than..(Intro)   ...Everything   \   1 ( PEace )   1 Million Bottlebags   2 ( resPEct)   31 flavors   41: 19   41:19   54321 Boom   54321...Boom   66.6 Strikes Again   911 Is a Joke   A Letter to the New York Post   A Letter To The NY Post   Ain'tnuttin Buttersong   Aintnuttin Buttersong   Air Conditioning   Air Conditioning Listen Listen   Air Conditioning (Revisited)   Air Hoodlum   Ali Rap Theme   And No One Broadcasted Louder Than... (Intro)   Anti - Nigger Machine   Anti-Nigger Machine   As Long As The People Got Somethin’ To Say   As Long as the People Got Something to Say   B Side Wins Again   B Side Wins Again [Scattershot Remix]   Bedlam 13: 13   Bedlam 13:13   Beyond Trayvon   Black Is Back   Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos   Black steel in the hourdo you wanna go our way   Bring Tha Noise   Bring tha Noise [Version]   Bring tha Noize   Bring Tha Noize (with Anthrax)   Bring That Beat Back   Bring That Beat Back [Back to the Breakbeats Mixx]   Bring The Noise   Bring the Noise [Acappella]   Bring the Noise [Pump-Kin Instrumental] [Remix][In...   Bring the Noise Remix [Instrumental]   Bring the Noise Remix [Instrumental]   Bring The Noise(Anthrax)   Broke Diva   Brothers Gonna Work It Out   Burn Hollywood Burn   By the Time I Get to Arizona   By the Time I Get to Arizona [Album Version]   By the Time I Get to Arizona [the Moleman Mix]   By the Time I Get to Arizona [The Moleman Mixx]   Can You Hear Me Now   Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man   Can't Truss It   Cant Truss It   Catch The Thrown   Caught, Can I Get A Witness   Caught, Can We Get a Witness   Caught, Can We Get a Witness?   Check What You're Listening To   Check What You’re Listening To   Cold Lampin With Flavor   Cold Lampin' With Flavor   Contract On The World Love Jam   Contract on the World Love Jam [Instrumental]   Corplantationopoly   Countdown To Armageddon   Countdown to Armageddon [*]   Countdown to Armageddon [DVD]   Crash   Crayola   Dark Side Of The Wall 2000   Dark Side of the Wall: 2000   Death Of A Carjacka   Do You Wanna Go Our Way   Do You Wanna Go Our Way?   Do You Wanna Go Our Way???   Do You Wanna Go Our Way??? (Live At The Fillmore 2...   Don't Believe The Hype   Don't Believe The Hype   Dont Give Up The Fight   Earthizen   Either We Together Or We Ain’t   Either You Get It By Now Or You Don’t   Electric Slave   Escapism   Eve of Destruction   Everything   Fame   FassFood   Fear Of A Black Planet   Field Nigga Boogie (XLR8R Remix)   Fight The Power   Fight The Power - Live   Fight the Power (Soul Power u2013 Who Stole This S...   Fight The Power (Soundtrack Version)   Fight the Power [Album Version][Edit]   Fight the Power [Do the Right Thing]   Fight the Power [DVD]   Fight the Power [Edited Album Version][Version]   Fight the Power [Extended Version][*]   Fight the Power [Flavor Flav Meets Spike Lee]   Fight the Power [Live Winterthur, Switzerland]   Fight the Power [Powersax][*]   Fight the Power [Soundtrack Version]   Fight the power soul power u2013 who stole this so...   Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Da   Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Da...   Final Count of the Collison Between Us and the Dam...   First The Sheep Next The Shepherd   First The Sheep Next The Shepherd?   Flavor Flav Cold Lampin'   Frankenstar   Game Face   Game Face   Get it In   Get Off My Back   Get the F... Outta Dodge   Get The Fuck Outta Dodge   Get Up Stand Up   Get Your Shit Together   Gett Off My Back   Give It Up   Give Peace a Damn   Give The Peeps What They Need   Give The Peeps What They Need - Clean   Go Cat Go   Godd Complexx   Gotta Do What I Gotta Do   Gotta Give The Peeps What They Need   Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need [DJ Johnny Jui...   Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need [DJ Johnny Jui...   Hard Rhymin   Hard Rhymin'   Hard Truth Soldiers   Harder Than You Think   Harder Than You Think (London Radio edit)   Harry Allen’s Interactive Super Highway Phone Ca...   Hazy Shade of Criminal   He Got Game   He Got Game [DVD]   He Got Game [DVD][Live]   He Got Game [Live]   He Got Game [Radio Edit]   Hell No We Ain't All Right!   Hell No We Aint Alright   Hell No, We Ain't Allright   Here I Go   Hit da Road Jack   Hitler Day   Hoover Music   House Of The Rising Son   House Of The Rising Son   House Of The Rising Sun   House Sell Soul To A Souless People Who Sold Their...   How to Kill a Radio Consultant   How to Kill a Radio Consultant (The DJ Chuck Chill...   How to Kill a Radio Consultant [The DJ Chuck Chill...   How You Sell Soul To A Souless People Who Sold The...   I   I Ain't Mad At All   I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga   I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga   I Shall Not Be Moved   I Stand Accused   I Stand Accused - Clean Version   Icebreaker   If You Want It To Be Good Girl (Get Yourself A Bad...   Incident at 66. 6 Fm   Incident At 66.6 FM   Incident At 66.6 FM (Instrumental)   Incident at 66.6 FM [Instrumental]   Invisible Man   Is Your God a Dog   Kevorkian   Kill Em Live   Last Mass Of The Caballeros   Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts   Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts [Instrumental]   Leave This Off Your Fuckin Charts   Let's Have A Party   Live & Undrugged Part I Ii   Live And Undrugged Part I & II   Live And Undrugged Pt. 1 & 2   Livin In A Zoo (Remix)   Living In A Zoo   Living In A Zoo (Remix)   Living In A Zoo (The 13th Message)   Living in a Zoo [Remix]   Long and Whining Road   Lost At Birth   Lost in Space Music   Louder Than a Bomb   Louder Than a Bomb (JMJ Telephone Tap Groove)   Louder Than a Bomb [JMJ Telephone Tap Groove]   Lsd   M. P. E.   M.P.E.   Make It Hardcore   Makes You Blind   Man Plans God Laughs   Me To We   Meet The G That Killed Me   Megablast   Megablast (The Madd Skillz Bass Pipe Gett Off Remi...   Mind Deep [#][Instrumental]   Mind Terrorist   Mine Again   Miuzi Weighs A Ton   Miuzi Weighs a Ton [Live]   MKLVFKWR   MKLVFKWR (“Make Love, Fuck War”)   MKLVFKWR (Put Your Hands In The Air)   More News at 11   More News at 11 [Extended Gary G-Wiz Mega Bomb]   Most of My Heroes Still..   Move!   New Whirl Odor   Night of the Living Baseheads   Nighttrain   Nighttrain [Album Version]   Nighttrain [Instrumental]   Nighttrain [Instrumental]   Nighttrain [Peter Rock String Isalnd Mt. Vernon Me...   No Sympathy from the Devil   Notice (Know This)   Now A Daze   Paid   Party for Your Right to Fight   Party for Your Right to Fight (Blak Wax Metromixx)   Pesa #1   Pesa #2   Plastic Nation   Politics of the Sneaker Pimps   Pollywanacraka   Power To The People   Praise The Loud   Preachin' to the Quiet   Preaching To The Quiet   Prophets Of Rage   Public Enemy #1   Public Enemy No. 1   Public Enemy No. 1 [Jeronimo Punx Redu]   Public Enemy No.1   Pump The Music, Pump The Sound   Pump The MusicPump The Sound   Put It Up   Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)   Race Against Time   Rage Against Time   Raise The Roof   Raw Shit   Rebel Without a Pause   Rebel Without a Pause [*]   Rebel Without a Pause [DVD][Live]   Rebel Without a Pause [Live]   Rebel Without a Pause [Vocal Version]   Rebirth   Rebirth Of A Nation (eaturing Professor Griff   Reggie Jax   Resurrection   Revelation 33 1/3 Revolutions   Revolution   Revolutionary Generation   Revolverlution   Rightstarter   Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man)   Riotstarted   Rise   Rise   RLTK   Run Til Its Dark   Say It Like It Really Is   See Something, Say Something   Sex, Drugs & Violence   Shake Yo Booty   Shake Your Booty   She Watch Channel Zero?!   Show ‘Em Watcha Got   Show em whatcha got   Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely   Shut Em Down   Shut Em Down (Live in the UK)   Shut Em Down (Pete Rock) Remix   Shut Em Down (remix)   Shut Em Down [Album Version]   Shut Em Down [DVD]   Shut Em Down [Pete Rock Mix]   Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version]   So Whatcha Gone Do Now?   Son of a Bush   Sophisticated Bitch   Stop In The Name...   Sudden Death (Interlude)   Super Agent   Super Agent   Super Agent... He Is What He Is   Super Agent...He Is What He Is   Superman's Black in the Building   Superman’s Black In The Building   Supermixx's Black In The Building   Swindler's Lust   Swindler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lust   Swindler¡¯s Lust   Swindler’s Lust   Swindlers Lust   Terminator X Speaks With His Hands   Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic   The Enemy Battle Hymn Of The Public   The Evil Empire Of...   The One   Theatrical Parts   They Used To Call It Dope   Thin Line Between Law & Rape   Thin Line Between Law Rape   Those Who Know, Know Who   Tie Goes to the Runner   Timebomb   Too Much Posse   Truth Decay   Unstoppable   Uzi   War At 33 1/3   War At 33 1\/3   Watch The Door   Welcome To The Terror Dome   Welcome To The Terrordome   Welcome to the Terrordome [DVD][Live]   Welcome to the Terrordome [Live Winterthur, Switze...   Welcome to the Terrordome [Live]   Welcome to the Terrordome [X-Games Remix]   What a Fool Believes   What Kind A Power We Got?   What Kind Of Power We Got?   What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful)   What Side You On?   What What   What You Need Is Jesus   White Heaven / Black Hell   White Heaven/Black Hell   White Heaven\/Black Hell   Who Stole The Soul?   Who Stole the Soul? 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