Track Listing

1. Countdown to Armageddon
2. Bring the Noise - Public Enemy, Anthrax
3. Don't Believe the Hype
4. Cold Lampin' With Flavor - Public Enemy, Sadler, Eric "Vietn
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?! - Public Enemy, Griffin, R.
11. Night of the Living Baseheads
12. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy, Public Enemy
13. Security of the First World
14. Rebel Without a Pause
15. Prophets of Rage
16. Party for Your Right to Fight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5857 in Music
• Released on: 1995-05-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com essential recording
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 ("Prophets of Rage") 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. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews

Revolutionary hip-hop
One of the greatest albums ever made. A must have for any true music fan and anyone who believes in social justice.

WOW!!! HOLY ****ING ****!!!!!!!
This album is simply beyond amazing. This is coming from someone who's not a huge hip-hop fan, or at least wasn't before I knew it could be this good. I have no clue how ANYONE could possibly give this less than five stars. It's easily the best hip-hop album of all time, if not the best album, period. The beats are funky, the lyrics amazing, and the rapping incredible. I can't say enough about the quality of this album. EVERYONE owes it to themselves to own this album. It's an all-time, mind-blowing classic.

back to real rap!
public enemy, the pride of N.Y. in the house! get out your old malcum X hats and tee shirts. Pride in black america was strong in the 80-90's. we need to bring it back! Don't belive the hype! strong messages, strong opions, freedom of speech! need to stop all this talk of pimping drugs girls etc. focus! get the pride back with PE! PEACE!