
Artist
Public Enemy
Public Enemy is a hip-hop artist from New York, NY, USA formed in 1982. 41 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hip-Hop · New York, NY, USA · Best hip-hop albums
- 41
- Releases
- 1987–2026
- Active years
- 1982
- Formed

Artist
Public Enemy is a hip-hop artist from New York, NY, USA formed in 1982. 41 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hip-Hop · New York, NY, USA · Best hip-hop albums

Most popular
Fear of a Black Planet
1990 · 20 tracks

He Got Game (Soundtrack)
1998

What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
2020

Power To The People And The Beats - Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
2015

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
2007

Muse Sick‐N‐Hour Mess Age
1994

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1988

Live From Metropolis Studios
2015

Greatest Misses
1992

Yo! Bum Rush the Show
1987

Fight The Power
2020

Give It Up
2013

Rebirth of a Nation
2005

Remix of a Nation
2007

New Whirl Odor
2005

Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025
2025

Rebirth Of A Nation (Clean)
2008

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
1991

He Got Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2025

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert
2017

Man Plans God Laughs
2015

The Evil Empire of Everything
2012

Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp
2012

Beats and Places
2006

Bring That Beat Back: The Remix Project
2006

Revolverlution
2002

There's a Poison Goin On…
1999

He Got Game
1998

Bring the Noise 2000
1998

Singles n' Remixes 1987–1992
1992

Can't Hold Us Back
EP · 2006

State Of The Union (STFU) (Main)
Single · 2020

Shut Em Down
EP · 2019

Fight The Power: Remix 2020
Single · 2020

She Got Game
Single · 2026

Bring the Noise (Dabruck & Klein Radio Edit)
Single · 2013

Bring The Noise (Agami Remix)
Single · 2019

MARCH MADNESS
Single · 2025

How Long
Single · 2025

Prophets Of Rage (Brian Green Remix)
Single · 2019

MKLVFKWR
Single · 2026
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and his S1W group, DJ Lord (DJ who replaced Terminator X in 1999), and Music Director Khari Wynn. Formed in Long Island, New York, in 1982, Public Enemy is known for their politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Public Enemy number forty-four on its list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Acclaimed Music ranks them the 29th most recommended musical act of all time and the highest hip-hop group. The group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007. Developing his talents as an MC with Flavor Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record "Check Out the Radio," backed by "Lies," a social commentary-both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run-D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local MC who …