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With Public Enemy, they were doing such a different thing in terms of what they were talking about - .social content, political content -…

— B-Real

I grew up on Public Enemy, which had a message with great music behind it.

— Madlib

We were inspired by groups like Public Enemy, EPMD, and N.W.A. and ya know, Boogie Down Productions, Run-DMC and the list goes on.

— B-Real

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and…

— Rick Rubin

What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.

— Mark Fisher

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the…

— Greg Ginn

I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.

— Eyedea

Even before the mainstream knew about P.O.D., we were going for several years underground. For me, those were the times where it really was…

— Sonny Sandoval

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept…

— Ryan Adams

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what…

— Mayer Hawthorne

A lot of bands think, 'We'll be original.' The Ramones did it because they couldn't do anything else.

— Marky Ramone

I think more people wanted to sound like the Ramones than The Velvet Underground. So many bands try to imitate us. Anywhere I go…

— Marky Ramone