From 1990 Album: “Fear of a Black Planet”….. Public Enemy’s Official Site: www.publicenemy.com Get Public Enemy’s Music: www.amazon.com & itunes.apple.com Fear of a Black Planet is the Grammy Award-nominated third album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on March 20, 1990 on Def Jam Recordings. This album debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 (in the week of May 26, 1990), and was the group’s first highest-charting selling rap album, the album was #1 on the Billboard Hip hop/R&B Albums chart as well. The album’s musical qualities were overshadowed by a controversy surrounding alleged anti-Semitic remarks by group member Professor Griff. After the controversy had been forgotten, however, the album’s critical reception was generally very positive, with many commentators ranking it equal to or better than the previous album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). In particular, critics were favorable to The Bomb Squad’s innovative and diverse production and Chuck D’s songwriting. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music credits Fear of a Black Planet’s atmosphere to the “bunker mentality” of “clashes with the press”, and specifically cites “Fight the Power”, which “bites harder than just about any other track in rap’s history”. It was ranked 21 in Spin’s “100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005″. Pitchfork Media named it the 17th best album of the 1990s. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source’s 100 Best Rap Albums. In 2004, Fear of a Black Planet …
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this is UNDERRATED! thanks Vintage
Yeah true but cube is a 40 plus year old man, you can only be gangsta for so long.
I know. Besides he’s done so much for HipHop over the years he should be able to do whatever films he wants. It’s still kinda funny though.
what a great video! the message is really nice too! im not black..i am hispaic..but i understand :] hahaa i looooveee their voices, i love the rhythm of the music, YO MAN WHAT? lol very sexy men hhaaaha
if your HISPANIC then u have more BLACK n U than U may Know, my Brother. No Ledge, Wise Dome. PEACE
todays hip hop need to regain the mass conciousness it had in these days. it tends to do us a disservice in this day and age.
great music video
cmon, but…Are we there yet?
sold-out!
how is he selling out making a hit movie? would he be keepin it real if it were a flop? The man has kids, and is middle aged… That’s as real as it gets
BD Kane is one the smoothest MCs of all time…..not many guys could touch him back during his prime (Rakim maybe being the exception)
nay, if anything flav, jay-z, maybe krs-1 are sellouts.
How about burn barber shop burn and all those other lame ass fucking movies white boy cube sells his soul for yet another in a series of checks whenever applicable…gay ass nigga
This IS classic, its goin in my vault as one of the GREATiSt, nuf said
So what thats not selling out Cube is a entertainer and does a great job at it Cube is a hustler and like he says is he going to be rapping about guns and drugs at the age of 60 or 70 NO he can still be actor or whatever so I think its a smart choice also his albums don’t sell to 5 year old kids but the movie
Are We There Yet does so u tell me I think its pretty smart also he’s got young kids and maybe its a way to relate to them
not bad
xDD
hahahaha
@samikalastaja Damn right hip hop used to have a message now the only thing they talk is money, drugs boose and bitches!
why has hip hop gone from this LEGENDARY MUSIC to fukin LIL WAYNE N SHIT im ashamed of music nowa days
ohhh, i miss P.E.!!
Of course Ice Cube does movies now…
awesome Track
Old…….but still sik:)
@AvEryBadApPLe Krs-one a sellout? Dude… No just no..
chuck D = public enemy. flava aint shit