that s right public enemy number one twenty years it s been a long and whining road even though time keeps a changin i ma bring it all back home i been told i spit with politics why wouldn t i it says negro on my birth certificate born in 1960 in a nation throughout i ve been a spokesperson for a generation within the same old fear of a black planet twenty years of blood sweat no tears for fanatics so damn it if times is hard time is god understand it never took time for granted it s alright ma as a child of the sixties along the watchtower i can t bet they re going to miss me i m only bleedin every grain in me fans if it s not for you there d be no pe from the nashville skyline to the homeboys and girls of south country in this world gone wrong here s another love song num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one come on no tears num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one hoo hah we came a long way baby you know what s amazing they re surprised we told these new guys flavor s always been crazy hit london 87 like it was an invasion toured the world for three years a hell with a vacation vocation of vocalization especially with the impact of it takes a nation of millions to hold us back you bet there s blood on them bomb squad tracks black steel baseheads party for your right to fight prophets of rage bring the noise and don t believe the hype can t do nuttin for you man 911 is a joke twenty years we got here by actin like common folk tourin the world like a rolling stone then the nineties came then we welcomed y all to the terrordome some threw it away instead we had somethin to say cause the streets still ended up by havin no names since rebel without a pause the beats were never the same and by 1998 we still had game we rocked on  num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one hoo hah only a pawn in the game chastised for naming names what was said and who said it anti nothing so forget it tears of rage left a friend blowing in the wind but time is god been back for ten years and black again some of them same cats helped usher in gangsta rap damn our interviews were better than a lot of them acts praised the gangsta just because it sold while consciousness went from platinum and it shrunk down to gold seen the nation reduce fight the power to gin and juice some people gave it up and they turned it loose they rocked on num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one hoo hah beethoven bach and brahms i want some james brown even bruce brian bono beck yeah chuck berry prince stevie sly smokey johnny cash in my chevy heard some call me uncle tom now that s petty i m a songwriter fool i condense sense from right and wrong i m livin in the key of protest songs from basement tapes beyond them dollars and cents changing of the guards spent now where the hell the majors went most of their time out of mind hating my mess age rhymes can t truss it shut em down call it what you want it they made a day fit for a king by the time we got to arizona tomorrow s a long time got god on our side over bass and drum beats hear the good rhymes ride there s a poison goin on there s a shelter from the storm hard rain s gonna fall still the people rock on we rock on num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one hoo hah num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one num number one number number one honest honestly i need to stop hating number one hoo hah 2