Harder Than You Think
Public Enemy

[Flavor Flav - Intro]

Yo Chuck, bust a move man

I was on my way up here to the studio, ya know what I'm sayin'?

And this brother stop me and axe me,

Yo, wassup with that brother Chuckie D? He swear he nice

I said Yo the brother don't swear he's nice, he KNOWS he's nice

Ya know what I'm sayin'?

So Chuck, I got a feelin you turnin into a Public Enemy, man

Now remember that line you was kicking to me

On the way out to la Lounge in Queens

While we was in the car on our way to the Shop

Well yo, right now kick the bass for them brothers

And let 'em know, what, goes, on!


[Chuck D. - overlaps last line syncing with Flav]

What, goes, on!

Rolling Stones of the rap game, not braggin'

Lips bigger than Jagger, not saggin'

Spell it backwards, I'ma leave it at that...

That ain't got nuttin to do with rap

Check the facts, expose those cats

Who pose as heroes and take advantage of blacks

Your government's gangster, so cut the crap

A war goin on so where y'all at?

Fight the Power comes great responsibility

'F the Police' but who's stopping you from killlin me?

Disaster, fiascos over a loop by P. E.

If it's an I instead of we believin tv

Spittin riches, bitches, and this new thing about snitches

Watch them asses move as the masses switches

System dissed em but barely missed her

My soul intention to save my brothers and sisters!


[Chorus 4X]

Hard... (Get up! )

Just, like, dat


[Flavor Flav - interlude]

Yeah, that's right Chuck, man

That's what you gotta do

You got to tell 'em just, like, dat, ya know what I'm sayin?

Cause yo, lemme tell you a lil something man

These brothers runnin around, hard-headed!

They get a lil jealous, you know what I'm sayin?

Just like that! You know, they try to bring you down wit 'em

But yo, Chuck, you got to tell 'em just, like, dat!


[Chuck D. - Verse Two]

Screamin gangsta twenty years later

Of course endorsed while consciousness faded

New generation believin them fables

Gangster Boogie on two turntables

Show no love so it's easy to hate it

Desecrated while the coroner waited

Any given Sunday, so where y'all rate it?

Wit slavery, lynchin, and them drugs infiltrated

I'm like that doll Chuckie, baby

Keep comin back to live, love life like I'm crazy

Keep it movin +Rising to the Top+

+Doug Fresh+ clean livin you don't stop

Revolution means change, don't look at me strange

So I can't repeat what other rappers be sayin

You don't stand for something, you fall for anything

Harder than you think, it's a beautiful thing


[Chorus:]


[Flavor Flav - interlude again]

Yeah, that's right Chuck, man

That's what you gotta do

You got to tell 'em just, like, dat, ya know what I'm sayin?

Cause yo, lemme tell you a lil something man

These brothers runnin around, hard-headed!

They get a lil jealous, you know what I'm sayin?

Just like that! You know, they try to bring you down wit 'em

But yo, Chuck, you got to tell 'em just, like, dat!


[Chuck D. – Verse Three]

So it's time to leave you a preview

So you too can review what we do

20 years in this business, How You Sell Soul?

Gee whiz, people bear witness

Thank you for lettin us be ourselves

So don't mind me if I repeat myself

These simple lines be good for your health

To keep them crime rhymes on the shelf

Live love life like you just don't care

Five thousand leaders never scared

Bring the Noise, it's 'the moment they feared'

Get up! Still a beautiful idea


[Chorus:]


[Chuck D. - overlaps chorus]

Get up! - Throw yo hands in the air

Get up and show no fear!

Get up if y'all really care!

P. E. 20 years, now get up!


[Flavor Flav - Outro]

Yeah, that's right, we Public Enemy #1 in New York

Public Enemy #1 in Philly, Public Enemy #1 in D. C.

Public Enemy #1 in Cleveland, Ohio (we're harder than you think)

Also we're Public Enemy #1 in St. Louis

(It's a beautiful thing) Public Enemy #1 in New Jersey

And bust it, we also Public Enemy #1 in Cincinnatti, (we're harder than you think)

And Atlanta, even Public Enemy #1 in Chicago, Public Enemy #1 in Detroit

(It's a beautiful thing) Public Enemy #1 in Oakland,

(We're harder than you think) Public Enemy #1 in Baltimore

Public Enemy #1 in Miami, Public Enemy #1 in Indiana

Also Public Enemy #1 in L. A. (it's a beautiful thing... Indeed)

Also Public Enemy #1 in Alabama, y'all (we're harder, than you think! )

Public Enemy #1 in Tennesee, Public Enemy #1 in Mississippi

The [?] of all the Public Enemies...


[Flavor's outro finally fades as JUST, LIKE, DAT

Is briefly heard thorught the song while the song fades]


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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   Donu2019t Believe the Hype   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 (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. 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