大吵大闹 (1987)

"Bring the Noise" is a song by the American hip hop group Public Enemy. It was included on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Less than Zero; the song was also released as a single that year. It later became the first song on the group's 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The single reached No. 56 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

The song's lyrics, most of which are delivered by Chuck D with interjections from Flavor Flav, include boasts of Public Enemy's prowess, an endorsement of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, retorts to unspecified critics, and arguments for rap as a legitimate musical genre on par with rock. The lyrics also have a metrical complexity, making extensive use of meters like dactylic hexameter. The title phrase appears in the chorus. The song includes several shout-outs to fellow hip hop artists like Run-D.M.C., Eric B, LL Cool J and, unusually for a rap group, Yoko Ono, Sonny Bono and the thrash metal band Anthrax. Anthrax later collaborated with Chuck D to cover the song.

The song's production by the Bomb Squad, which exemplifies their characteristic style, features a dissonant mixture of funk samples, drum machine patterns, record scratching by DJ Terminator X, siren sound effects and other industrial noise.

Critic Robert Christgau has described the song as "postminimal rap refracted through Blood Ulmer and On the Corner, as gripping as it is abrasive, and the black militant dialogue-as-diatribe that goes with it is almost as scary as "Stones in My Passway" or "Holidays in the Sun". "Bring the Noise" was ranked No. 160 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Samples

"It's My Thing" by Marva Whitney

"Funky Drummer", "Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved" and "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" (remix) by James Brown

• "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" by Funkadelic
• "Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie" by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
• "I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To" by the Soul Children
• "Assembly Line" by Commodores

The recording begins with a sample of Malcolm X's voice saying "Too black, too strong" repeatedly from his public speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference on November 10, 1963, in King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan entitled Message to the Grass Roots.

As a sample in other songs

"Bring the Noise" has been sampled in many other songs; among them "Much More" by De La Soul, "Here We Go Again!" by Portrait, "I Know" by Seo Taiji & Boys, and "World Wide Noise" by ClascyJitto. "Everything I Am" by Kanye West and "Here We Go Again" by Everclear all sample the Chuck D line "Here we go again". His exclamation "Now they got me in a cell" from the first verse of the song is also sampled in the Beastie Boys song "Egg Man". The track "Undisputed", from the 1999 album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic by Prince samples Chuck D's voice saying "Once again, back, it's the incredible" in its chorus and also features an appearance from Chuck D himself. This same sample is used on Fat Joe's album All or Nothing on the track "Safe 2 Say (The Incredible)". Rakim's 1997 single "Guess Who's Back" also uses the same sample. The game Sonic Rush samples the beginning of "Bring the Noise" in the music for the final boss battle. In addition, Ludacris' hit "How Low" samples Chuck D's "How low can you go?" line. In 2010, it was sampled by Adil Omar and DJ Solo of Soul Assassins on their single "Incredible". LL Cool J used a sample of Chuck D's line "I want bass" during the final verse on the song "The Boomin' System" from the Mama Said Knock You Out album. Also, the lines "[To save] face, how low can you go" and "[So keep] pace how slow can you go" in Linkin Park's song "Wretches and Kings" on their album A Thousand Suns (which is also produced by Rick Rubin) refer to Chuck D's line "Bass! How low can you go?". Francis Magalona's 1993 songs "Ito ang Gusto Ko" and "Meron Akong Ano" both sample "Bring the Noise".

Additionally, Public Enemy sampled the song themselves in several other songs on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, including the lines "Now they got me in a cell" and "Death Row/What a brother knows" in "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" and the lines "Bass!" and "How low can you go?" in "Night of the Living Baseheads".

Anthrax version

Thrash metal band Anthrax recorded a version of "Bring the Noise", which sampled the vocals from the original Public Enemy recording. Chuck D has stated that upon the initial request of Anthrax, he "didn't take them wholehearted seriously", but after the collaboration was done, "it made too much sense", and it was eventually included on both the Anthrax compilation Attack of the Killer B's and as the final track on Public Enemy's own Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black album.