Album info

• Title It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
• Artist Public Enemy
• Year 1988
• Genre Hip-Hop/Rap

Tracklist

1. Countdown to Armageddon
2. Bring the Noise
3. Don’t Believe the Hype
4. Cold Lampin’ with Flavor
5. Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
6. Mind Terrorist
7. Louder Than a Bomb
8. Caught, Can we Get a Witness?
9. Show ‘Em Whatcha Got
10. She Watch Channel Zero?!
11. Night of the Living Baseheads
12. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
13. Security of the First World
14. Rebel Without a Pause
15. Prophets of Rage
16. Party for Your Right to Fight

Thoughts

I didn’t know a lot about Public Enemy, but they popped up in a film we watched recently, and that inspired me to listen. It felt very much like N.W.A. and a bit of research proved they were around at the same time and doing similar things, but N.W.A. seemed to capture the public’s imagination a little more than Public Enemy did. I do think it’s a good album but is just missing the hooks that keep you coming back to Straight Outta Compton. Definitely worth a listen if you’ve got some rage to expunge.

Rating: 3 / 5