A group whose musical style and incendiary delivery have earned them critical acclaim and millions of fans, Public Enemy continues to blaze trails with new songs and new media, pulling rap music into the future, while keeping its musical roots firmly intact. The group burst onto both the rap and pop music world in 1987 with their first single, "Public Enemy #1," a startling combination of Chuck D's commanding orations and Flava Flav's show-stopping antics. In 1999, The New York Times named P.E.'s music the "25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century" and in 2005 The US Library of Congress included Fear of a Black Planet in a list of 50 recordings to be preserved in the National Recording Registry. Rolling Stone called the group one of the 50 greatest artists of all time, and in 1999 Vanity Fair proclaimed the group "Icons of Rock." Spin chose two P.E. albums for their "100 Greatest Albums (1985-2005)" list (#1: It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet at #21). The numbers tell an extraordinary tale: 56 tours, 1300 concerts in 45 countries, three multi-platinum albums, three gold albums, four gold singles and a platinum-selling home video.

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