Cutural Irony and/or Coincidence #1

On their 1988 album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back," Public Enemy had a song called "She Watch Channel Zero?!" (which, given the punctuation, was both inquisitive and surprising). The song had lyrics like this:

Her brains retrained
By a 24 inch remote
Revolution a solution
For all our children
But all her children
Don't mean as much as the show, I mean
Watch her worship the screen, and fiend
For a TV ad
And it just makes me mad

Then, on their 1990 follow-up "Fear of a Black Planet," Public Enemy featured a song called "Burn Hollywood Burn" (featuring Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane (dramatic, asiatic, not like many)). Some similar motifs arise here:

Get me the hell away from this TV
All this news and views are beneath me
[...]
Hollywood or would they not
Make us all look bad like I know they had
But some things I'll never forget yeah
So step and fetch this shit
For all the years we looked like clowns
The joke is over smell the smoke from all around
Burn Hollywood burn

More recently, in the second season of Flavor of Love (Public Enemy's own Flavor Flav's follow-up reality TV show to his appearance on season 3 of The Surreal Life and then Strange Love), there is a stripper pole on a bus. See it for yourself here:

clip from Flavor of Love, season 2

Did you count the number of E's in their names? Now, go here for some highlights from the first season:

New York's Greatest Spits

Is Chuck D sad? Is he mad? When he gets mad, so he claims, he puts a pen to the pad and huh! gives you something that you never had. See for yourself:

Who's Your Hero? from Chuck D's Terrordome