Fear Of A Black Planet

definitely influencing the genre.

I do really like Public Enemy. The lyrical flow, the emotion, the message, the delivery - all excellent. However, I'm not a always a fan of the constant repetition of short samples that backs the majority of the tracks. Sometimes it works great, other times it can become a bit monotonous. The whole album also feels a bit long. Regardless, this is a classic from the golden era of hip hop and, due to tighter restrictions on the use of samples, records in this style will probably stay resigned to the past. (3.7)

Didn’t hate it. There were some catchy songs!

Deze vond ik leuk, de naam kwam me bekend voor maar wat een leuke old school vibe

Das oldschool baby, waarbij den dj nog belangrijk was. Ik vind het niet het beste beste dat ik ooit gehoord heb maar je hoort wel dat modernere hiphop hiervan veel heeft genomen

I like public enemy maar was nu niets dat me achterover liet vallen

Voor een niet rap liefhebber, vind ik deze artiest nog wel om aan te horen. Stem klinkt normaal, muziek heeft wel wat geinige geluidjes. Een stuk beter dan al die duistere rap, die om de tekst gaat, die je dan toch niet verstaat. **

Really good listen. I find it more accessible than Millions, but with no song as immediately bracing as Don't Forget the Hype. I don't know how to judge good hip hop vs.not so good. UT I know what I like and I like this album 4 stars

I got two Public Enemy albums in a week. “Nation of Millions” earned my respect and this is even better.

Fantastic sampling and classic 90s rapping. Plus that cover just rules.

Czas na kontrowersyjny album dosc kontrowersyjnych czarnuchow, jak mowi jeden z kawalkow, burn hollywood burn, trzeci w dyskografii zespolu, a czemu kontrowersyjny i dosc a nie bardzo, bo jednak jest to album ktory sprzedal sie dobrze i jakos znalazl sie na tej liscie, wiec porusza jak na lata 90 kontrowersyjne tematy czarnej spolecznosci, rownouprawnienie, seksizm w kulturze hip hopu, czy chocby mieszanki rasowe, czy nieudolnosc wladz i sluzb, 911 is a joke, dziwne jak bardzo po 30 latach nadal aktualne sa te problemy, aktualne ale jednoczesnie wypaczane w druga strone, bo tak jak hollywoodzki trak mowil o tym, ze ktos czarny nie dostanie powaznej roli w filmie, tak teraz niepisanym wymaganiem jest obsadzenie czarnej roli, zeby uciszyc krzykaczy rownosciowych i ich walki o urojona rownosc, czy z takim zamyslem pisali swoje teksty chuck D i flavor flav, tego nie wiem, ale nie wydaje mi sie zeby obecnie bylo duzo lepiej niz wczesniej, a czemu nie bardzo kontrowersyjny, bo grupa pozbyla sie najbardziej radykalnego czlonka przed tworzeniem tej plyty, pan professor griff wylecial za pojazdy na zydowskich mniejszosciach, nie musze mowic nawet o tym, ze def jam to wytwornia z dosc mocnymi korzeniami w ziemi obiecanej, co do samej plyty, to album jest napakowany kawalkami tak klasyczymi, ktore nawet radiowym sluchacza musialy sie obic sie o uszy w szelakich produkcjach telewizynych, wspominiany juz burn hollywood burn, ktory jest jedynym featurowych trackiem, ale jakim ice cube i big daddy kane na jednym kawalku, czy fight the power jeden z szybszych kawalkow plyty, do tego dochodzi welcome to the terrordome, na godzinnym materiale znajdzie sie az 20 trakow, bo album zawiera sporo skitowych mini kawalkow, a wiekszosc kawalkow jest budowana na ostrym samplowaniu i loopach, do tego dobra robota na tambulach i skreczowaniu jak przystalo na lordowego DJa, nie jest to moze poziom beastowych bojsow i ich paulowego butiku, ale kolazowe samplowane z pewnoscia jest mocnym akcentem plyty, album zestarzal sie dobrze, ale jednak wydarzenia takie jak meczennikowanie grzegorzow flydowych calkowicie zmienia odbior tej plyty dla mnie

i thought it was a little all the same, and the songs were unnecessarily long when they shouldn’t be, but it was a good album overall and i do really like it

Public Enemy does not sound dated at all - so many (too many) of the lyrics and topics are 100% as relevant today (30+ years later holy hell). Yet what makes this album (and PE's other early (pre~1994) albums) especially fantastic isn't just the lyrics/topics but the kickass music - judicious samples and hard beats; if the music isn't any good, the message isn't going to be heard - and the music is great. Chuck D was never better than on this collection - "Welcome to the Terrordome" and of course the huge hit "Fight the Power" are standouts. "Burn Hollywood Burn" might be the best of them all - the beat is intense and high-paced, and guest verses from Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube make this catchy as hell. I'm unlikely to ever give a perfect score for a PE album because of Flavor Flav's songs (I like him well enough as a sidekick but as a sidekick alone) - him taking lead on a song mostly kills the vibe for me but on this album he is thankfully more limited and he hits a little differently - "911 Is a Joke" had a huge impact and actually had something to say. Fear Of A Black Planet also works so well because it is truly a complete *album* rather than a smattering of tracks here and there - in some ways (it's a reach, I'll admit) it's not unlike The Who's Sell Out in terms of there being "connecting tracks" ("Incident at 66.6FM" "Reggie Jax" "Leave This Off Your Fn Charts") that work as a path from one "proper" song to the next. In other words - you lose a ton if you listen to some of these songs on a mix... listen to this from tip to tail for the full effect. And admittedly even though it is a dense album you do have to listen to it as a complete collection and worth any effort - it also gets better upon multiple spins. If it's not the best hip-hop album ever made it has to be in the conversation.... 9/10 5 stars.

Okay okay. Full dicksclosure, I listened to MOST of this but as we’re now off for the weekend I’m gonna post a review now. This didn’t grab me as much as I hoped. I was greatly enjoying the lyricisms and the ideas behind the songs but the music didn’t get me jinking and janking in the way I NEEDED as I prepared my eggs. Rap and hip hop is inherently quite repetitive and I guess I just needed something more dynamic at this time of the morning. Hey, I’ll come back to it at some point.

Anger channeled, proof positive that this vital emotion leads to vital art when honed to a bleeding edge. It struck me how prescient it seems, then struck me again how it only seems prescient because it sees its present so clearly, and because so little has changed.

As ever, there's nary a milisecond of respite, but the relentlessness comes from a life-giving and life-affiriming variety rather than single-speed tempo. There are skits, sound effects, smooth moments, funny as fuck moments, soulful songs, rebel-rousing songs. But it's non-stop because they aren't neatly parcelled like that. From the first beat you never know when you'll be thrown in a different direction. Sometimes the skits stands alone, sometimes a breakbeat interrupts a skit, sometimes the song interrupts a sample, somtimes a sample becomes a song. The permutations are endless. And for all Chuck's verbal artillery and bombastic oratory, nothing assays the necessary resourcefulness of militancy as that. Use every last scrap of what you can lay your hands on to fight your cause. It's an ethos that imbues everything from the explosive found-art approach of the production to Flava Flav's diatribes. It's a constant and unpredictable clash of ideas. In a word, dialectics. Hence why the simpletons phoning in on Incidient At 66.6 FM can only respond to PE's multifarious ideas by reducing them to "They're bad because they have guns on stage". But even that track subverts expctations, giving the ignormai a coolly propellent and pleasant bedding track whose levity not only ridicules the callers but shows how casually acceptable it is to air such views. Something similar goes down on Pollwannacraka, where Chuck fully embraces the preacher quality of his voice. Likewise, the "black man, white women, black baby..." sample that starts at 00:53 of the title track and doubles down on creepiness because the speaker is so convinced of their rightness. Finally, shouts to when Chuck fluffs his line "Ain't how that God planned it" on the title track. It makes the music sound more than ever like a demonstration, where even the more powerful orator can trip over their words.

Disc de la vella escola de hip hop. Exageradament llarg, i això que acaba cansant al poc de començar... algun tema interessant, però moolt sobrevalorat

Starts off with high energy and total chaos, was worried a bit too much energy! Then some quite good tracks, serious messages brought in a playful way. Then chaos again, sometimes ok, sometimes giving a headache.

Really enjoyed some of these songs, but overall this album is a bit intense to listen to. This is most obvious at the end of 'Power to the people', for instance. The repetition, sampling, and switching of the sound from side to side was straight up unpleasant. This technique returns in many of the songs. Favourite songs: Can't do nuttin' for ya man; Fight the power (even though that one is also really intense). Struggling with the rating, but probably 2 stars.

An absolute game changer. PE dropped a classic with this one. "Burn Hollywood Burn" is a favorite of mine, but a lot of these songs are trailblazers.

Powerful album with tons of cultural significance. Lyrically strong and deep with a lot of innovative sampling of sound bites interspersed throughout. My only criticism is that the songs seem to run together musically, but Public Enemy was always more about the lyrics than the music.

Not my cup of tea.

A bit overly 90th

Absolute masterpiece

0_0

It wasn't bad at all, but, as with pretty much every album with that many songs, it kinda goes down after the first half. However, it's a solid record IMO.

Fantastic Hip-Hop / Rap album. Strong lyrically and musically. As relevant today as it was back in 1990.

Really solid, personally find it to be a lot more upbeat and energetic than n.w.a and contemporaries, the beats are more creative and social issues are also better explored in this album

The background opening puts the song at 4- right at the start. Kudos for the lyrics being unproblematic and while keeping flow and still talking about issues. Pollywanacraka is Lyrical hilarity, same for can't do nuttin for you man. The mixes are new to me, love this. Fight the Power. 4/5

The aggressive and energetic beats and instrumentation were solid. DJ Lord's cuts were phenomenal throughout. I appreciated the subtle sci-fi samples strewn across the project; Star Wars themed cover is cute lol. ‘War At 33 1/3’ featured a more contemporary flow, so that was nice to see. Also, that Ice Cube feature was 🤤🤤 // Favs: Contract On The World Love Jam / Anti-Ni**er Machine / Burn Hollywood Burn / Leave This Off Your Fu*Kin Charts / War At 33 1/3

As relevant today as when it came out. The anger is righteous and palpable. 911 is a joke - echoes to the present day. A listenable, danceable, seminal album.

Not bad. But not something I love.

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1.6

Public Enemy come out with a record that emphasised the mood of the time: anger. As many felt their world was under fire (and indeed it truly was for othres), Public Enemy guides you through the emotional rollercoaster in this time. Strong themes of social justice exploring racial injustice, stereotyping, and feminism; this is a record that truly speaks it's mind.

Good album, long to listen to all at once

Badass, can we get hip-hop like this again?

naaahh

Public Enemy is the greatest rap group of all time. This isn’t their best record, but it’s close

I've heard of this album. I've heard of this band. I've seen a lot from Flava Flav post Public Enemy's prime. Before looking up the album to play, I did not remember that any of these things belong together. "Fight the Power" might be the only song I've heard of. I can't decide if "911 is a Joke" is familiar or if it's just because it's Flav that it sounds familiar. Most of the tracks just kind of ran together. There were some okay elements, but I don't think this album was for me.

2/5. Liked 911 Is A Joke.

The album that ushered in the new hip-hop tracks of the 90's! This was a snippet of the evolution of hip-hop music during this time. This album features a collage of samples, scratches, high-tempo beats, and lyrical genius within their rhymes. Public Enemy's most famous album was a joy to listen to.

Malo malo, pero he oído peores

Great album -- great music that really pulls me in, and the lyrics are always worth a listen. Right album by the right group at the right time.

Iconic! And still just as relevant today as it was back then.

full trash

Надо полагать, классика семплинга, а то я не в материале. Не справился с прослушиванием.

Awful! Utter crap!

I guess it's OK. It didn't really annoy me, but it didn't really interest me in any way either, so I stopped midway through because it's on the long side.

Whoa! Loving this. I honestly don’t know much about Public Enemy - but Chuck D spits fire; and I also have more respect from Flava Flav.

Conceptually this is great, but the old school hip hop with its scratches sounds really dated and is difficult to listen to.

Nope…. Didn’t like

Not my jam

i'm sure it's an "important" entry, but it's not for me. purportedly socially conscious rap containing homophobia and antisemitism might be clever if done ironically, but i don't think they were smart enough for that. i think it's genuine in its crudeness and cruelty. hot garbage

Important Hip Hop, the production sounds slightly dated, unfortunately some of the issues discussed aren't. Some good tunes are sprinkled throughout. BT: 911 Is A Joke, Welcome to the Terrordome, Fight The Power

I don't usually listen to hip hop, but it was pretty solid Some of the tracks were pretty catchy, but I didn't feel a connection to it

I like it a little less than I used to -- over the course of the runtime it just wears me out a little bit. Feels like there's not quite enough variety in the production to sustain a full hour of this. Without that fatigue it's good though. I actually really like 911 is a Joke, goofy as it is, cause it stands out compared to a lot of the other music. It's a 3.5 that's hard to round off either direction, but I like Chuck D enough to push it to a 4 I guess.

Raskasta kuunnella työn teon lomassa. Aika paljon tuli skippailtua biisejä kesken, mitä en normaalisti ollenkaan tee tämän levyprojektin kanssa ainakaan. Sekava pläjäys. Tuokaa minulle mieluummin Puhuvia Päitä.

A great album for Black History Month. This is the genesis of truly radical hip hop that would go on to influence all the best hip hop records to date. Terminator X provides the hard-hitting production that keeps the music memorable, Chuck D's presence is unmatched, and Flav is...there. Not a perfect album, but still a one worth listening to for it's history alone.

Not my thing

It got a funky beat but is pretty political. 0RS

Olisin halunnut tykätä enemmän, edes neutraalin kolmosen verran, mutta oli sen verran sekava pläjäys, että ei voi kakkosta enempää antaa tällekään. Muistaakseni joskus aiemminkin koittanut kuunnella jotain Public Enemyn levyä ja samankaltaiset mielikuvat oli muistin perukoilla. Hittibiisit on hyviä, mutta sitten hirveä määrä muuta kuraa vetää albumin kokonaisarvosanan alas.

jaren 90 hip hop. Klinkt niet heel bijzonder.

Nope not a fan

Excellent - poignant lyrics and great tunes.

Black power

Sick beats, sick lyrics. I loved this album and I thought that the commentary was scathing and also still poignant. My favorite tracks were 911 Is a Joke, Fight the Power, and Power to the People, but I liked all the songs (instrumentals included).

This will be interesting b/c rap isn't really my thing. Great listen. Love the flow.

Shifts and mutates like it’s working stream-of-consciousness

Solid album, obvi Faves were Can't do nuttin for ya, man and war at 33 1/3

"Fight the Power" Released: July 4, 1989 "Welcome to the Terrordome" Released: January 1990 "911 Is a Joke" Released: April 1990 "Brothers Gonna Work it Out" Released: June 1990 "Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man" Released: October 1990

Rap en estado puro. Para amantes de dicho género. Ritmo y letras.

On my Hip Hop education tour last year, I listened to this and their older album in full. While I liked their earlier album more, this one isn’t bad. You can see the influence these guys had on so much hip hop going forward not just stylistically and lyrically, but in samples as well. I heard “Dis Generation” on Revolutionary Generation which was sampled on the most recent Tribe album. My favorite song on the album is Fight the Power probably because that’s in the opening of Do the Right Thing. I hope their first album comes on this list as well but I’m glad this one did too. There are also some great interludes about people calling into the radio and complaining about Public Enemy and other types of bigotry that sadly still ring true today. They are saying so much with just their album cover alone, and the title. People who just want to be treated equally are often looked at as a “public” enemy and showing this black planet with someone in the cross hairs merging with earth really does invoke that fear of a “takeover” that so many are still unfoundedly afraid of today.

no way

Primera presa de contacte amb Public Enemy. Malgrat saber de la seva existència, mai m'havia assegut a escoltar atentament la seva música. En general, el hip hop i el rap mai m'han interessat gaire. I a ells en concret els vaig veure una estona en directe en el meu segon Primavera Sound, allà al 2008. El disc m'ha semblat interessant a nivell sonor, amb complexes estructures de samplers i jocs de veus constants. Però el disc en sí, com era d'esperar, no m'ha dit gaire, i tampoc ho esperava. M'he informat sobre la seva transcendència en el moment que va ser publicat, tant pel seu missatge com per la seva música, i entenc que el context i el moment eren idonis per aquest àlbum. Tot i així, jo no hi connecto, i al final m'ha acabat cansant, perquè és tan llarg com dens.

Just a bit too many parts of random talking... sandwiched between two classics. Still a worthwhile listen.

Fight the power

Educational.

All time classic. This was a formative album of my childhood, when I thought I was the most woke revolutionary kid in my southwestern Ontario farming community.

I expected a more tunes than vocals

Loved the production and beats on this album.

Rap, no es para mí

Not my type

Este disco me recuerda el bombazo que fue la película "Do the right thing". Hipo-Hop que se hizo popular en los 90 y saltó a primer plano mundial. "Brothers gonna work it out", "911 is a joke", "Welcome to the Terrordome" y por supuesto "Fight the power".

Thematically, this album could have been a lot more, but the production took away from it entirely. Not many songs on it with serious rapping, and a lot of filler noise and instrumentals. Way too long a run time.

Je comprend le concept et ca place dans l’histoire du rap, mais je ne l’ecoute peut etre pas dans les bonne circonstances. Malgre cela 3.5 car ca represente bien son epoque

Less Flava Flav is a big plus, liked this one much better than "it takes a nation of millions".

Chuck D and Flava Flav are wholly underrated in the pantheon of Hip Hop. The true voice of late 80s brooklyn, So New York that Spike Lee had them be characters in "Do the Right Thing". This is the anger boiling beneath the surface. Anger at the police for fixing broken windows and not broken streets. Anger at Hollywood. It's been 30 years, do we still fear a black planet? I don't know. Butt regardless, we should fight the power

I've never been that much into hip-hop, but this late 80's/early 90's tracks by Public Enemy do bring some nice memories back. Love the production, all the layered samples and the flow on top of it. Those were nice times to innovate with this approach.

YESSSSS I've been waiting for some true hip hop classics, this is a great place to start. Public Enemy is such an enigmatic duo to me. I grew up knowing Flava Flav from reality TV, but here he's the hype man for Chuck D, one of the most politically motivated rappers ever. This album is a bold political proclamation from front to back, but it's also extremely listenable and danceable. You can hear how easily these beats would turn a club up in the '90s. The sampling is really impressive, so many samples on here that appear throughout hip hop history. To name two, I heard a sample that appeared on Illmatic in '94, and a sample that appeared on Tribe's album from 2016. I also loved that Ice Cube was featured on a track, and it made me realize how similar Chuck D and Ice Cube's rap styles are. Cube is definitely indebted to Chuck D. This is a fantastic album. Favorite tracks: Fight the Power, Welcome to the Terrordome, Burn Hollywood Burn, Brothers Gonna Work It Out. Album art: This is a great one. I don't think it's as iconic as their prior album, but I like this one better honestly. Public Enemy's crosshair logo is incorporated into the black planet, the title is presented in Star Wars scroll-text fashion. Excellent colors, and I love the chyron across the bottom. 4.5/5

I liked it. Angry, militant. Above average early 90s rap.... that being said it's too long. And there is the whole anti-Semitic/homophobic angle that I didn't pick up on until Ed pointed it out... which is shocking considering the acclaim. First four tracks are great. Burn Hollywood Burn is fun. I'll give it a three.

cool

Commanding, authoritative, and sadly every bit as relevant today as it was when it was released. Fave track - I really like "Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man" but it feels slightly wrong to pick the goofiest track on the album, so I'll go with "Burn Hollywood Burn" instead!

Old school und lyricslaschtig. Isch haut semi enjoyable, weme nid aues versteit.

Classic west coast hip hop, better lyricism than I expected

“Hey fellas, I’d like to get a band together. I want the drums to Sound like I am banging someoen‘a head against the curb until they die while I talk about 400 years of oppression to my people. While I am doing this I want a skinny guy with gold teeth and a giant clock around his neck to encourage me. I would like to add heavy metal guitar over much of the music and if we play live I’d like to have military grade weapons in most of our hands Sound like a plan?” - chuck D

I like Chuck D. This album is varied, strongly written, and is a blast to play loud. Flavor gets on my nerves a bit, but he lets it loose in the right places.

Soulful, jazzy, easy listening Love the "Jazz band" sound Top points to the double bass Voice drops out slightly at points

Heavily focused on race. Rightfully so though. It's good.

Solid album, still relevant, still sounds fresh.

Oh rap. Flava flav.

It was okay, though I’m not a huge fan of 90’s hip-hop.

Amazing album. Their best.

I wanted to give this five stars. This was an iconic album of my youth. Probably the most anticipated one. But you can’t separate the people from the music. The homophobic and anti-Semitic lyrics and comments by Griff… I can’t see past them. The fact that this still gets 4 stars is a testament to how bloody good this album actually is.

Favourite so far of albums. Can see why this is important album, was relatable then and still relatable. Fav song - burn Hollywood burn - completely correct about black film roles

Ho-ly. SHIT. This album is aggressive and angry as fuck. It still resonates today especially with 2020's BLM movements. Production is tight and reminds me of early NIN, a shed load of samples and turntablism (from the sound of it) expertly crafted. This album is powerful. 10/10

My first time getting into a Public Enemy album. It’s good shit, hip hop that came before my time.

as much as I enjoyed some of these songs some of them were just too repetitive and long I got bored halfway through. shame. I like the style of songs like “Incident At 66.6 FM”

Strong hip hop from start to finish.

Before Nirvana exploded in 91 and what came in their wake pretty much took over my musical world, I was more into hip hop -mostly via music videos. Public Enemy really stuck out to me then and was perhaps my favorite group from this era. I am much more partial to their politically centered music than the gangster rap that came to dominate the genre shortly thereafter. Their previous album "It takes a nation of millions..." usually gets the highest praise as it was their breakthrough (and I love it too) but I think this is their best album and easily one of the best hip hop albums of all time. I love chuck ds voice and his contrast with flavor flav is wild but I think it really works to temper the tone of the album so that it isn't overbearing. This album is relentless in so many ways, from the sheer power of chuck ds voice, to the weight of his message, to the dense layering of the music, to the pacing and BPMs... I feel like this one flows nearly perfectly as an album, interludes and all.

The definition of a mixed bag. I do not like Flavor Flav's schtick, I feel it totally waters the entire politically charged messages which I think are pretty good, I like Chuck D's delivery. From reading about Public Enemy it seems like Flavor Fav is sort of a hype-man for the group so I get it, it probably made sense and made them more popular, but in terms of the general "art" his inclusion drags it down. Welcome to the Terrordome, Brothers Gonna Work It Out, Contract On The World Love Jam - Instrumental, and obviously Fight the Power are the standout tracks.

An inoffensive rap album. Was ok.

Some wicked beats with important social messages

decent

Wow! Fun samples. Serious lyrics.

fittyleven samples coheres into one funk groove

Not mu favorite hip hop album but definitely influential.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS SHIT GOOD ASF

Fight the power!

Lisää tätä ghettonuorten uhoamismusiikkia. Ei iskenyt NWA, ei Ice-T eikä yhtään enempää tämäkään. Ei myöskään sinänsä suuremmin häiritse tai ärsytä, joten kakkonen lienee oikea arvosana.

Listened to a few tracks. Not feeling old school hip hop these days. Will revisit

Diese Liste hätte nicht mal EIN Public Enemy-Album gebraucht. Geschweige denn dieses. Nach dem 4. Song ausgemacht, braucht kein Mensch.

.. scrachssss

Not bad.

too political to be really catchy

Ok album not my thing but good lyrics. Songs got old quick

Like it

I enjoyed. Hip hop / sampled beats

2.5

Kind of reminds me of Sting, Kind of reminds me of Mumford and sons. Will have to listen again to pick my favorite track.

Still amazing.

Old school hip hop. Probably quite fresh in 1990, and some cool tracks, but not my favorite rap era.

Better than expected

Powerful

BRING THE NOISE

It’s no nation of millions

Enjoyable rap album! I am not a very avid rap listener (although I am a huge fan of Kendrick Lamar and Eminem), but I found the suggested album to be a very nice surprise.

Prima maar beetje heftig

Surprisingly not awful however still nothing special

Fedt album men kunne godt være lidt kortere

3/10

I’ve listened to this recently as part of a resurgence in interest of classic rap. This is a quality album. Each song flows with the aggression and urgency against the system that it’s lyrics highlight.

I knew of Public Enemy but never knew who they were or what they were about. Political rap and media commentary samples contextualize this nicely.

7,5/10

Incredible album, innovative instrumentals, great pen game. Chuck D is an all time great

bad

90’er hiphop, sampling, oprørsk, fight the power, “sort tv-station”

Chuck D delivers as always. Flava Flav is at the top of his game. Every track is a heater. It's rowdy, rude, and in your face. It's also one of the most culturally influential albums of all time. This one is an all-timer. Best track: Fight the Power

Their best album, fight the power is still anthemic

Was fine, maybe overhyped although maybe I’m listening to it in the wrong setting (on my own instead of at a party or something ). There’s something about the beats that drown out the vocals in songs that lower my ability to hear what the rappers are saying, not to mention being nit picky about some lines. Liked the 911 song, but even the best tracks weren’t that memorable for me.

I've seen Public Enemy and always thought of them as slightly preachy. This album makes me think less "preachy", more "passionate". At certain points, the songs can run kind of long, but the instrumentals are fucking awesome and the energy truly never dies. Favorite tracks: "Fear of a Black Planet", "Burn Hollywood Burn", "911 Is a Joke"

Those lyrics were deep. The sounds were chaotic at times. 2.5

wasn't expecting all the instrumental/light lyrical content, classic tenant in hip hop, fight the power indeed

Accidentally started listening on shuffle 💀💀💀 Sound effects are sometimes a bit weird and date the sound of the music, like one of those shitty radio DJs Quite a few instrumentals, not a fan 😬 Some of the songs are a bit too long MESSY Faves - Who Stole The Soul?, Welcome to the Terrordome, Fear of a Black Planet, Revolutionary Generation No songs saved or added to playlists Overall - not bad or unlistenable! Just v messy and a bit dated, not really for me Would I check out their other music - probably not

err hip-hop-y. das not my genre. it's an okay background noise tho

Sick

Classic slice of hip hop! Political stuff that resonates today.

ffcc