Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions (CD)
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.
Tracklist:
- Countdown to Armageddon
- Bring the Noise
- Don't Believe the Hype
- Cold Lampin' with Flavor
- Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
- Mind Terrorist
- Louder Than a Bomb - (remix)
- Caught, Can We Get a Witness?
- Show 'Em Whatcha Got
- She Watch Channel Zero?!
- Night of the Living Baseheads
- Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
- Security of the First World
- Rebel Without a Pause
- Prophets of Rage
- Party for Your Right to Fight - (remix)
UPC > 731452735829
Format > New CD
Label > Def Jam
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
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.
Tracklist:
- Countdown to Armageddon
- Bring the Noise
- Don't Believe the Hype
- Cold Lampin' with Flavor
- Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
- Mind Terrorist
- Louder Than a Bomb - (remix)
- Caught, Can We Get a Witness?
- Show 'Em Whatcha Got
- She Watch Channel Zero?!
- Night of the Living Baseheads
- Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
- Security of the First World
- Rebel Without a Pause
- Prophets of Rage
- Party for Your Right to Fight - (remix)
UPC > 731452735829
Format > New CD
Label > Def Jam
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.