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1. The Public Enemy
   The Public Enemy was the first worldwide box office hit for James Cagney. It forever cast him in the public eye as a "tough guy," an image he was unable to shed despite numerous roles chosen especially to counter that image, including his Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Public Enemy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing of an Original Screenplay. A theatre in Times Square ran the film 24 hours a day during its initial release.[6] The film has ... been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has been certified "fresh" with a 100% rating on the Tomatometer.[7]
2. The Public Enemy -- Flavor Flav
   The Public Enemy collection will feature Chuck D figures sporting a gold chain, baseball cap, and microphone. It will ... include a Flavor Flav figurine wearing his signature clock necklace and Viking hat, with a gold chain and microphone.
3. The Public Enemy -- Def Jam
   In 1998, the original line-up of Public Enemy regrouped for a new album, which ... served as the soundtrack for Spike Lee's He Got Game. Public Enemy terminated their 12-year association with Def Jam shortly afterwards, a series of disagreements ending with an argument over the band's decision to post their new single, "Swindler's Lust", on the Internet. They then signed up with an Internet record company, Atomic Pop, and became the first mainstream band to release an album online. There's A Poison Goin On " and its independent label follow-ups have met with polite applause from loyal critics and a muted commercial response.
4. James Cagney -- Public Enemy
   Born July 17, 1899, James Cagney would be 105 years old today. He made the baddest gangster in screen history. His pre-code role as Tom Powers in the 1931 film The Public Enemy was the very foundation of the genre. Everyone remembers the infamous grapefruit scene, but watch the death of Putty Nose a few times. That's the malice in full effect.
5. The Public Enemy -- Tom Powers
   Public Enemy's debut album, Yo Bum Rush the Show, was released on Def Jam Records in 1987. Its spare beats and powerful rhetoric were acclaimed by hiphop critics and aficionados, but the record was ignored by the rock and RB mainstream. However, their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, was impossible to ignore. Under Shocklee's direction, PE's production team, the Bomb Squad, developed a dense, chaotic mix that relied as much on found sounds and avantgarde noise as it did on oldschool funk. Similarly, Chuck D's rhetoric gained focus and Flavor Flav's raps were wilder and funnier. A Nation of Millions was hailed as revolutionary by both rap and rock critics, and it was hiphop had suddenly became a force for social change.
6. The Public Enemy -- Films
   Public Enemy was often cited as one of the films that led to the "The Hays Code" becoming mandatory in 1934. This was the code of The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) which was established in 1922 and quickly became more popularly known as the Hays Office, after the first president of the organisation, Will H Hays (1922 - 45) (Not the British comedy actor!).
7. The Public Enemy -- James Cagney
   The Public Enemy was the first worldwide box office hit for James Cagney. It forever cast him in the public eye as a "tough guy," an image he was unable to shed even despite numerous roles chosen especially to counter that image (including his Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy ). A famous scene in which he smashes half of a grapefruit into his girlfriend's face sparked controversy over the movie's allegedly misogynist theme. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry .
8. The Public Enemy -- Miscellaneous
   Wallenta said that "Public Enemy" the comic will be a very character driven book. "It will have a lot of action and adventure, but the focus is the characters," said Wallenta. "The real life members are such diverse and interesting people that we want to translate that into the comic and combine it with some real explosive action."
9. The Public Enemy -- Takes A Nation
   Coming down after the twin high-water marks of It Takes a Nation of Millions and Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy shifted strategy a bit for their fourth album, Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black. By and large, they abandon the rich, dense musicality of Planet, shifting toward a sleek, relentless, aggressive attack -- Yo! Bum Rush the Show by way of the lessons learned from Millions. This is surely a partial reaction to their status as the Great Black Hope of rock & roll; they had been embraced by a white audience almost in greater numbers than black, leading toward rap-rock crossovers epitomized by this album's leaden, pointless remake of "Bring the Noise" as a duet with thrash metallurgists Anthrax. It ... signals the biggest change here -- the transition of the Bomb Squad to executive-producer status, leaving a great majority of the production to their disciples, the Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk. This isn't a great change, since the Public Enemy sound has firmly been established, giving the new producers a template to work with, but it is a notable change, one that results in a record with a similar sound but a different feel: a harder, angrier, determined sound, one that takes its cues from the furious anger surging through Chuck D's sociopolitical screeds.
10. Propaganda -- Enemy
    Propaganda can be classified according to the source and nature of the message. White propaganda generally comes from an openly identified source, and is characterized by gentler methods of persuasion, such as standard public relations techniques and one-sided presentation of an argument. Black propaganda is identified as being from one source, but is in fact from another. This is most commonly to disguise the true origins of the propaganda, be it from an enemy country or from an organization with a negative public image. Grey propaganda is propaganda without any identifiable source or author.

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