Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
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Artist: Public EnemyEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1994-07-26
Music Label: Def Jam
Soundtracks:
- Contract On The World Love Jam (Instrumental
- Brothers Gonna Work It Out
- 911 Is A Joke
- Incident At 66.6 FM (instrumental)
- Welcome To The Terrordome
- Meet The G That Killed Me
- Pollywanacraka
- Anti-Nigger Machine
- Burn Hollywood Burn
- Power To The People
- Who Stole The Soul
- Fear Of A Black Planet
- Revolutionary Generation
- Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man
- Reggie Jax
- Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts (Instrumental)
- B Side Wins Again
- War At 33 1/3
- Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Damned (Instrumental)
- Fight The Power
Free Music Notes for Fear of a Black Planet
Free Music Review: Easy listening for the Black Intellectual...
Hit: 5 Stars
Without a doubt, THE BEST Rap record made in the nearly 30 year history of the genre. Few rap albums have come close to this gem, let alone touched the lyrical content & the raw abstract production of the Bomb squad. PE was damn serious & the genius of Flava Flav gave the message a perfect balance. PE was doing for rap in the late 80s & early 90s what Stevie Wonder did for Soul Music in the seventies. After "It takes a nation" exploded on the scene, they took it to the next level with 'Fear'.
There was a pivotal moment in rap music in the early 90s where the music was moving toward consciousness or gangster ignorance. Artist like KRS-One, X-Clan, Queen Latifah and other artists were 'kicking the science' & there was a pride in our culture growing in the music. Unfortunately, by the time PE released their 4th classic 'Apocalypse', popular taste had shifted almost completely to ganster rap, hence the state of rap today.
PE's Fear of a Black Planet is a testament to what rap music could have evolved into if the consciousness movement in rap would have been more popular than that ganster Bull-ish. A Classic.
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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 Is 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 Hollywood's racism, on miscegenation, on "real history / Not his story." The album ends with "Fight the Power," the group's ultimate statement of purpose, from its pounding, atonal sound collage to its furious politics. Put Black Planet on, and it's always a long, hot summer. --Douglas WolkRap & Hip-Hop Music CDs
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