“You're Gonna Get Yours” by Public Enemy

"You're Gonna Get Yours" came off Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Public Enemy's 1987 debut for Def Jam, and went out as a single that year, sometimes subtitled "My 98 Oldsmobile" for the car Chuck D name-checks in his rhymes. He wrote it with Hank Shocklee, the pair co-produced it with Bill Stephney, and Steve Ett and Stephen Linsley engineered.

It only crept to number 88 in Britain, but its reach ran far wider. Rolling Stone counts it among the tracks that let Chuck D and the Bomb Squad hand rap a harder, more booming sound along with pressing social and political concerns. MARRS lifted a piece of it for their 1987 hit "Pump Up the Volume", the Red Hot Chili Peppers have used it to jam their way into "Give It Away" live, and the 1999 film Human Traffic used it.

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