By the Time I Get to Arizona

"By the Time I Get to Arizona"
"By the Time I Get to Arizona"
	US promo release
Song by Public Enemy
from the album Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black
A-side	"Shut 'Em Down"
Released	January 1992
Studio	The Music Palace, Strong Island
Genre	Political hip hop
Length	4:48
Label	Def Jam
Songwriter(s)	Carlton Ridenhour; Stuart Robertz; Gary "G-Wiz" Rinaldo; Cerwin "C-Dawg" Depper; Mandrill; Neftali Santiago;
Producer(s)	The Bomb Squad; Stuart Robertz; Cerwin "C-Dawg" Depper; Gary G-Wiz; The JBL;

"By the Time I Get to Arizona" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy from their 1991 album Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black. The song was written by frontman Chuck D in protest of the state of Arizona, where governor Evan Mecham had canceled Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the people voted against its reintroduction.

It was released as a B-side to the single "Shut 'Em Down" in January 1992, but had its own music video. The video was controversial for its depiction of black paramilitaries assassinating Arizona politicians in revenge for King, who was non-violent. Some black activists and King's widow Coretta Scott King condemned the themes of the video. Chuck D and Public Enemy's spokesman Harry Allen defended the video as a fictional revenge for King's assassination.

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