Public Enemy at Hollywood Alley December 7th, 2006
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It Takes a Nation of Millions Sale Price: $2.52 Used From: $1.80 |
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Fear of a Black Planet Sale Price: $2.67 Used From: $0.71 |
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Yo Bum Rush the Show Sale Price: $2.43 Used From: $2.45 |
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Tracks: You're Gonna Get Yours 4:05 / Sophisticated Bitch 4:30 / Miuzi Weighs A Ton 5:44 / Timebomb 2:54 / Too Much Posse 2:25 / Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man) 3:49 / Public Enemy No. 1 4:40 / M.P.E. 3:44 / Yo! Bum Rush The Show 4:25 / Raise The Roof 5:18 / Megablast 2:51 / Terminator X Speaks With His Hands 2:13 |
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Power to the People & The Beats: Greatest Hits Sale Price: $6.56 Used From: $2.99 |
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Public Enemy is not the kind of group that does compromise--either you own It 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. If nothing else, tracks like "Bring The Noise" and "Fight The Power" serve as timely reminders of how much power hip-hop can wield when not tripped up in name-calling and bitch-slapping (D famously dubbed the genre "CNN for black people"), while on "911 is a Joke" Flava Flav proves there's a fine-line between laughter and tears. --Aidin Vaziri |
