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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record Label
Def Jam / Virgin Emi
UPC
0602537998647
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25050159578
Product Key Features
Language
English
Era
1980s
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Release Year
2014
Format
Record
Features
Studio Recording
Genre
Rap & Hip-Hop
Type
Album
Style
East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap, Golden Age
Artist
Public Enemy
Release Title
Fear of a Black Planet
Additional Product Features
Guest Artist
Branford Marsalis, Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, Stats.1
Distribution
Universal Distribution
Number of Tracks
20
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", "...Most Powerful Rap Group..."-Rating: a, Ranked #2 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 10 (out of 10) - "...where do you go once you've made the greatest hip-hop album ever? Unbelievably, you consolidate that with an equally splendid follow-up....This time the sounds were softened slightly with flashes of `real' instrumentation but the content remained as astonishingly tough and intelligent as before...", 4 Stars - Excellent - Recommended by Q as one of the five best rap albums of 1990 and ranked as one of the Fifty Best Albums of 1990. - "...scalding attack on white supremacy...", Bloody Essential - "...slower, denser...funky. And it was a masterpiece....It's beyond perfect, built like a platinum beehive and stuffed with cordite--The Bomb Squad's last hands-on job for PE before they took on the task of...Ice Cube...", Ranked #37 in Nme's List of the `Greatest Albums of All Time.', 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Public Enemy has never aimed for anything less than a comprehensive view of contemporary black America...FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET complements this ambition with stunning maturity and sophistication...", "This Seminal Release -- a Lyrical and Aural Maelstrom -- Was a 911 Call to America.", 5 Stars - "...achieved the near impossible by being every bit as good as its predecessor. The music was Public Enemy's now-familiar scream but was augmented with a percussive tinge that reflected the ever greater Afrocentricity..."