Public Enemy - Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The second blast installment of the Rolling Stones of the RAP game, Public Enemy. The EVIL Empire of Everything leaves no stones unturned. The fraternal not identical twin album of HEROES, they are said to talk to each other while the listener rivets in. It's almost like a stage show on record. A much anticipated 14 tracks including the 5 year later gusher HARDER THAN YOU THINK which has rewritten the independent record books. Again the team spreads collaboration into a soldiers reach into radical musical troops, contributors ZIGGY MARLEY, HENRY ROLLINS, DAVY DMX, and introducing lesser known names to the Planet Earth through their similar music and message vision. Songs like DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT, BEYOND TRAYVON, ICEBREAKER speak loud and say plenty in these times today. And the song. EVERYTHING speaks volumes on the world we live in right here and right now. This is an great fitting match, a more eclectic avant garde album to the Part 1 HEROES .

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/26/1994

It 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 (InchProphets of RageInch) to the group's quasi-paramilitary organization to the sirens and sax squeals in nearly every track declares how urgent their mission is. It's a hugely influential album, and it still sounds fresh and frightening after all these years.