Public Enemy’s single “Don’t Believe The Hype” saw the group “fight the power” against negative press about them.

PE’s classic critique of false media was specifically aimed at then-Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, Spin’s John Leland, and radio DJ Mr. Magic, who dissed PE’s single “Public Enemy No. 1” on his WBLS radio show in 1987 by saying “No more music by the suckers.” Don’t believe the hype, indeed.

Chuck D’s handwritten lyrics below, courtesy of the Adler Archives: