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They call it a mind revolution. ♪ a rebel in his own mind >> "rebel without a pause" was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn't you maybe be thinking about who are the people i've got out here? haven't you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. ♪ my mother standing in t...

>> rakim is the god mc. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. ♪ times is hard on the boulevard ♪ ♪ i never get scarred >> i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style. you know, not just a regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. ♪ be all i could be and more ♪ see all there is to see before ♪ >> what i'm trying to do, i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, you know what i'm saying. got to teach th...

Immense shock and grief to the poet. first rock 'n' roll assassination. ♪ hard on the boulevard ♪ i never get scarred >> i learned different rhythms >> it was like in one moment the listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. '60s and the '70s got murdered. >> in his life he's given more so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. love than most men and women on the face of this earth. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, we're here to prove that love is doo-doom, doo-doom. ♪ see all there is to see before ♪ not dead, even though john is. >> you ...

So i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style, not just a regular doom, doom-doom. i was in between doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. ♪ see all there is to see before ♪ >> i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, know what i'm saying. got to teach the babies, know what i'm saying, try to lead them in the right path. ♪ >> the summer of 1987, "rebel without a pause" comes out. it was a call to arms, it was the sound of anger, it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said, we want to be music's worst nightmare. >> public enemy's extreme politics has mean...

Poet. ♪ hard on the boulevard ♪ i never get scarred >> i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. ♪ see all there is to see before ♪ >> i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, know what i'm saying. got to teach the babies, know what i'm saying, try to lead them in the right path. ♪ >> the summer of 1987, "rebel without a pause" comes out. it was a call to arms, it was the sound of anger, it was the sound of...