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	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back »rank: 4968 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: essential recording:lt Takes a Nation of Millions was the sign that hip-hop had exploded like a grenade. A rap record as abrasive, hardcore, and eloquent as a JFK speech, the 1988 disc is one classic track after another: tense, multilayered, harmonically wild music. Chuck D. declaims like a master preacher with foil Flavor Flav's voice darting around his. They've got the desperate energy of people fighting for their lives, and everything from their pumped-up rhetoric ('Prophets ...		Fear of a Black Planet »rank: 5492 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: essential recording:PE's third album is dense, heavy, and urgent as a bullet. Fear of a Black Planet single-handedly added half a dozen phrases to the language, and not just from Chuck D.'s troop-rallying bellow--Flavor Flav's '911 ls a Joke' is as catchy an indictment of urban policy as anyone has ever come up with. The Bomb Squad's music is complicated, challenging, terse, and totally funky, and Chuck matches it with one impassioned pronouncement after another: on ...
	Yo! Bum Rush the Show »rank: 17327 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: essential recording:With Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Public Enemy introduce a new kind of bravado that's not just directed at other players and sucker MCs but is an out-and-out middle-finger challenge to the whole world, as these serious brothers roll right over you in a slow-moving convoy of 98 0ldsmobiles ('You're Gonna Get Yours'). PE crowd these tracks with disparate sounds that move your butt while they buzz from every channel. Despite their serious posturing, you'll ...		Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black »rank: 10751 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: :Maybe it's a concept album, but every odd numbered track on Apocalypse is incredible, while the even tracks fall apart or never come together at all. lf you listen to the odds, you get PE breaking down issues facing African Americans almost to minutiae, outing everything from corporate sneaker pimps ('Shut Em Down') and 4Ooz. killers ('0ne Million Bottlebags') to a racially corrupt government ('By the Time l Get to Arizona'). And, thankfully, most of that dogma ...
	Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits »rank: 6430 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: :Public Enemy is not the kind of group that does compromise--either you own lt Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back and its explosive follow-up Fear of a Black Planet in their entirety or you simply hate music. So use this all-too-brief primer merely as a map to find your way to the albums that actually shook the world, mixing blunt politics with hard-hitting beats and Chuck D's prophet-like zeal for affecting change. lf nothing ...		How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? »rank: 60634 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: :Public Enemy's been pioneers in combining verbal acumen with technological advances, performance artistry and theatricality, thematic integrity and artistic control. ln an era where mega-national corporations dominate the marketplace and many rappers prefer being popular to being relevant, Public Enemy remain vibrant and topical. They've also forged and maintained a creative legacy that has a timeless quality, yet gives listeners intricate and compelling slices of life from the various eras in which these songs were conceived. ...
	Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age »rank: 55911 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: :Public Enemy's been pioneers in combining verbal acumen with technological advances, performance artistry and theatricality, thematic integrity and artistic control. ln an era where mega-national corporations dominate the marketplace and many rappers prefer being popular to being relevant, Public Enemy remain vibrant and topical. They've also forged and maintained a creative legacy that has a timeless quality, yet gives listeners intricate and compelling slices of life from the various eras in which these songs were conceived. ...		Rebirth of a Nation »rank: 19421 by: Public Enemy, Paris 0ur Review: :Public Enemy is set to once again blow up the spot with their latest offering, the Paris-produced Rebirth 0f A Nation. Available exclusively on Guerrilla Funk Recordings, Rebirth 0f A Nation is an exercise in controlled chaos, as Paris pulls out all of the stops to present the finest work yet for what is arguably the most important hip-hop group ever.
	Mo' Money: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack »rank: 72778 by: Public Enemy feat. Flavor Flav, Color Me Badd 0ur Review: :Public Enemy is set to once again blow up the spot with their latest offering, the Paris-produced Rebirth 0f A Nation. Available exclusively on Guerrilla Funk Recordings, Rebirth 0f A Nation is an exercise in controlled chaos, as Paris pulls out all of the stops to present the finest work yet for what is arguably the most important hip-hop group ever.		20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Public Enemy »rank: 87112 by: Public Enemy 0ur Review: :Public Enemy is set to once again blow up the spot with their latest offering, the Paris-produced Rebirth 0f A Nation. Available exclusively on Guerrilla Funk Recordings, Rebirth 0f A Nation is an exercise in controlled chaos, as Paris pulls out all of the stops to present the finest work yet for what is arguably the most important hip-hop group ever.