Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy (2007)

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Harder Than You Think is the first single by Public Enemy as their 20th anniversary album How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? and released on August 13, 2007, produced by Gary G-Wiz. The hip hop song attained popularity during 2007 late summer, and became the group’s highest-charting single on the August 2012’s UK Single Chart. [1]

Public Enemy

Key Lyrics

WHAT, GOES, ON!

Rolling Stones of the rap game, not bragging

Lips bigger than Jagger, not saggin'

Spell it backwards, I'ma leave it at that

That ain't got nothing to do with rap

Check the facts, expose those cats

Who pose as heroes and take advantage of blacks

Your government's gangster, so cut the crap

A war going on so where y'all at?

"Fight the Power" comes great responsibility

'F the Police' but who's stopping you from killing me?

Disaster, fiascos over a loop by P.E

If it's an I instead of we believing TV

Spitting riches, bitches, and this new thing about snitches

Watch them asses move as the masses switches

System dissed them but barely missed her

My sole intention to save my brothers and sisters [2]

Black Empowerment

Public Enemy is dedicated to creating the songs which contain political and social messages, helping those who cannot voice their thoughts and speak for themselves. On Jan 13, NBC chose the song to debut as a Super Bowl XLIX commercial. [3]

The song itself tells about Public Enemy as they are aware that helping humanity is harder than being a hardcore person because you need to convince them that they are wrong. [4]

The song was also featured in a campaign advertisement for the 2012 Paralympics. One of the group personnel, Chuck D tells Rolling Stone amidst the releasing of a new album, a lot of people thought that this was a brand new cut because one of their songs exposed, “which really makes you look at, like, if these exposure areas would expose more artists and better songs, then these reactions would be natural, instead of a company that just hogs up the air, forcing a lot of meaningless songs down people’s ears.

“If they played ‘Harder Than You Think’ on urban radio two times a day, three times a day, it would probably do the same thing here,” he adds. “And the thing about the U.K., they blasted it through television. So that shows the power of being able to have opportunity on major media – even more so than the strength of the song.” [5]

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