Boogie Quote by B-Real

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

— Madlib

For me, if Public Enemy doesn't exist, Cypress Hill definitely doesn't exist, because we were directly influenced and inspired by them. From the production…

— 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

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

— Eyedea

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

We're heavily influenced by '90s pop punk bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Yellowcard.

— Calum Hood

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

— Ian Brown

Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk,…

— Neneh Cherry

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

— Eddie Floyd

People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to…

— Marco Rubio

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

— Anonymous