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Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

Fear of a Black Planet

by Public Enemy

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Released
1/07/95
Music Genre
Hip Hop

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Description

If Public Enemy's two previous albums had ruffled feathers, Fear Of A Black Planet set out its stall to exploit mainstream fears. Again, the title spoke volumes. This time they raged just as hard, but their political consciousness had grown. Professor Griff had been ejected from the band for his anti-Semitic stance, and much of the album's atmosphere is created by the bunker mentality of resultant clashes with the press. The siege mentality only underscores the group's hard-nosed, cut-and-paste sample technique and the eloquence of Chuck D. 'Fight The Power' still bites harder than just about any other track in rap's history.

Product Details

Artist
Public Enemy
Run Time (minutes)
57
Label / Studio
POL
Recording Environment
Studio
CD 30days Sales Rank
#9491
Media Content Format
Album
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
1995
Number of Discs
1
WOW HD Sales Rank
#12898
Original year of release
1990
SPARS Code
AAD
Cast & Crew
Public Enemy (Music Performer)
The Bomb Squad (Producer)

Press Reviews

...most powerful rap group..." - Rating: A Entertainment Weekly

Bloody Essential - "...slower, denser...funky. And it was a masterpiece....It's beyond perfect, built like a platinum beehive and stuffed with cordite--The Bomb Squad's last hands-on job for PE before they took on the task of...Ice Cube... Melody Maker (7/22/95, p.35)

Ranked #37 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time. NME (10/2/93, p.29)

10 (out of 10) - "...where do you go once you've made the greatest hip-hop album ever? Unbelievably, you consolidate that with an equally splendid follow-up....This time the sounds were softened slightly with flashes of `real' instrumentation but the content remained as astonishingly tough and intelligent as before... NME (7/15/95, p.47)

Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s. Q (12/99, p.68)

4 Stars - Excellent - Recommended by Q as one of the five best rap albums of 1990 and ranked as one of the Fifty Best Albums of 1990. - "...scalding attack on white supremacy... Q (2/91)

5 Stars - "...achieved the near impossible by being every bit as good as its predecessor. The music was Public Enemy's now-familiar scream but was augmented with a percussive tinge that reflected the ever greater Afrocentricity... Q (9/95, p.132)

Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's. Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.70)

4 Stars - Excellent - "...Public Enemy has never aimed for anything less than a comprehensive view of contemporary black America...FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET complements this ambition with stunning maturity and sophistication... Rolling Stone (5/17/90)

Ranked #2 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s. Spin (9/99, p.116)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Contract On the World Love Jam
  2. Brothers Gonna Work It Out
  3. 911 Is a Joke
  4. Incident at 66.6 F. M.
  5. Welcome to the Terrordome
  6. Meet the G That Killed Me
  7. Pollywanacraka
  8. Anti-Nigger Machine
  9. Burn Hollywood Burn
  10. Power to the People
  11. Who Stole the Soul?
  12. Fear of a Black Planet
  13. Revolutioary Generation
  14. Can't Do Nuttin for Ya Man
  15. Reggie Jax
  16. Leave This Off Your Fu*Kin Charts
  17. B Side Wins Again
  18. Final Count of the Collision Between Us and the Damned - (Instrumental)
  19. Fight the Power
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