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Public Enemy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Now this was a headline-worthy, festival-closing show.
Hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy pulled the curtain on the Hot-107.9 stage Sunday night with a show with as much decibel power as anything on the rock stage, a crowd as diverse as anything throughout the 42-acre site and a set more cohesive than any on the rap bill Saturday night at Vibe MusicFest.
Not that it wasn’t as inflammatory as anything Ludacris or T.I. said at Vibe. Except Enemy’s Chuck D, Flavor Flav and Professor Griff assail the establishment and institutions instead of women or people who scuff their new tennis shoes.
“[Expletive] George Bush,” they said from the stage. And the all-ages crowd cursed along in unison. Then — ever the instructors — Atlantan D explained why he led that taunt: “The government will send your [expletive] to war in a minute.”
Later on he excoriated radio program directors who play music during the day that make “fourthth-graders want to be up in the strip club…In the name of James Brown, please, please, please look out for the babies.”
But the bulletproof baritone was just as deadly when he was rapping “Welcome to the Terrordome,” “Don’t Believe the Hype” and the crackling closer, “Fight the Power.”
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By nevaeva
June 13, 2005 12:31 PM | Link to this
is this who replaced trilville? y cant peter c find better artists? this whole festival is now full of old hippies wishing they were 18 again thanx 2 96 & 99x stages and 1079 couldnt bring anyone decent in so all the old thugs and loosers showed up 2 cheer on the c class celebs, if u call flav a celeb… put the festival back in may, back in piedmont park, and get some real talent! ie: artists that are hot right now and that have a fan base more than 100,000, oh yea and no more weirdo punk devo fans!
By nevaeva
June 13, 2005 12:35 PM | Link to this
oh yea, Miller Lite, for all u beer drinkers @ the 99x stage… they give/support the NAACP. just thought u would like 2 know. what a sh**y line up your stage had! 99x should be ashamed!
By RL
June 13, 2005 4:55 PM | Link to this
Music Midtown should be sued for not letting people carry in an empty drinking container to fill up their water in. Sunday it felt like it was about 100 degrees and I saw a poor woman pass out from the heat. PLEASE, someone do something about this next year before someone dies of heat exhaustion.
By Prime
June 14, 2005 2:53 PM | Link to this
I thought Sunday was the best day. I think leaving Sunday for the Old School hip hop was a great idea. Kudos to the person who’s idea that was.