Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

...Stole The Soul
12. Fear Of A Black Planet
13. Revolutionary Generation
14. Can't Do Nuttin For Ya Man
15. Reggie Jax
16. Leave This Off Your F**kin' Charts
17. B Side Wins Again
18. War At 33half
19. Final Collition Between Us And The Damned
20. Fight The Power*

All songs marked with a star are my personal favourites of the album. I will tell you why I enjoy the songs
...this song gives Chuck-D a rest and Flavor Flav fellow band member and funny guy a chance. This song has a funky beat and is one of there more popular songs. It attacks the emergancy services. With lyrics like "I call a cab, cause a cab will come quicker" makes his pont clear that he doesn't like the way the emergency services treat people.

Welcome To The Terrordome
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This is one of Chuck-D's ... more

I have listened to many Rap albums full of controversial lyrics stories of gang banging, ho's and violence. Public Enemy indeed have controversial lyrics in this album but there not talking about woman, drugs or anything like that, they attack society. Public Enemy released 6 albums to my knowledge and with the exception of 'it takes a nation of millions to hold us back' nothin comes close to this.

this album touches on everything - race, sexuality, entertainment, war, disease, religion, philosophy, politics. There main front man Chuck-D is such an underrated charector in the rap world. When people think of Rap music tey think of Dre and 2Pac but never public enemy. I used to think like that, its a mix of good music and taking a stand to what the believe in.

Here is the track listing for 'Fear Of A Black Planet'

1. Contract On The World Love Jam
2. Brothers Gonna Work It Out
3. 911 Is A Joke*
4. Incident At 66.6 fm
5. Welcome To The Terrordome*
6. Meet The G That Killed Me
7. Pollywanacraka
8. Anti-N****r Machine
9. Burn Hollywood Burn*
10. Power To The People
11. Who Stole The Soul
12. Fear Of A Black Planet
13. Revolutionary Generation
14. Can't Do Nuttin For Ya Man
15. Reggie Jax
16. Leave This Off Your F**kin' Charts
17. B Side Wins Again
18. War At 33half
19. Final Collition Between Us And The Damned
20. Fight The Power*

All songs marked with a star are my personal favourites of the album. I will tell you why I enjoy the songs

911 Is A Joke
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this song gives Chuck-D a rest and Flavor Flav fellow band member and funny guy a chance. This song has a funky beat and is one of there more popular songs. It attacks the emergancy services. With lyrics like "I call a cab, cause a cab will come quicker" makes his pont clear that he doesn't like the way the emergency services treat people.

Welcome To The Terrordome
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This is one of Chuck-D's memerable songs just because of his abilities on the mic. He certainly lives up to his title as the 'lyrical terrorist' on the inside booklet. Everytime he says welcome to the terrordome and the chorus starts you have to take a breather yourself because its amazing how he does it.

Burn Hollywood Burn
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Its obvious from the title that Public Enemy don't appove of hollywood either (They Don't approve of much) the lyric "yeah I'll check out a movie, but It'll take a black one to move me" could be seen as racist but remember around that time not many black people were in hollywood flicks and thats the point there trying to get across. Ice Cube features in this song and now he's become an actor!

Fight The Power
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This is my favourite Public Enemy song of all time and can be still heard ringing about the place nowadays. This song was like N.W.A's straight outta compton it will always be remembered. I love the lyrics "Elvis was a hero to most but he didn't mean shit to me, straight up racist that sucker was simple and plain mother F**k him and john wayne". for a group to say that takes some guts. Elvis was like an idol to people and they tell it like it is in this song, which is why they were so respected because they weren't scared to speak there mind. Everytime I hear the words 'fight the power' you want to start a riot for some reason. This is the greatest P.E. songs and definately rates in the top 5 of all time.

Got to mention the DJ terminator X on this op because he does most of the beats as do the bomb squad. This album can still be bought along with all other P.E. releases from any music store and the internet. I recommend that you purchase this album and 'it takes a nation of million....' because there two of the best.

Thanks for the read, hope it was interesting for you. Andy :)

 

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