Public enemy it to describe various notorious fugitives they were pursuing throughout the 1930s. Unlike Loesch's use of the term, the FBI's "Public Enemies" were wanted criminals and fugitives who were already charged with crimes. Among the criminals whom the FBI called "public enemies" were John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker, and Alvin Karpis. The term was used so extensively during the 1930s that some writers call that period of the FBI's early (the BOI became the FBI in 1935) history the "Public Enemy Era". Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson, and Karpis, in that
Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black recorded "1 Million Bottlebags" to protest the pervasiveness of malt liquor in the African-American community. Public Enemy collaborated with the metal band Anthrax to record a thrash version of their earlier hit "Bring the Noise". The album was released on October 1, 1991, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. The album peaked at No. 4 on the "Billboard" 200 chart and at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. On November 26, 1991, "Apocalypse 91" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the United States. "Apocalypse 91" produced