395. "Bring The Noise" Public Enemy & Anthrax

"Bring The Noise"
Public Enemy & Anthrax
Apocalypse 91....The Enemy Strikes Black / Attack of the Killer B's
1991

Ah, rap-metal. The music genre with the highest degree of difficulty. For every song like this, or most of the Judgment Night soundtrack, there are a hundred Limp Bizkit songs.
Even here, Anthrax's Scott Ian almost queers the deal by sounding awkward x 1000 trying to spit rhyme after Chuck D. Luckily, he is spitting rhyme that Chuck D had already done four years earlier. Like training wheels.
But when done right, with a good rapper and with fucking awesome shredding like we have here, rap-metal is nectar of the gods for teenage boys. It sounds like breaking things and fucking girls all at the same time.
One thing that has always cracked me up about "Bring The Noise": Sonny Bono. What the hell is Sonny Bono doing getting name checked in a Public Enemy song? I'm 99 percent sure Chuck D had no idea who Sonny Bono was, just knew the name as someone who was a musician at some point. Too bad "Tony Orlando and Dawn" didn't rhyme with "Yoko Ono".