| It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 178 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5556
Category: Music
Artist: Public Enemy
Publisher: Def Jam
Studio: Def Jam
Manufacturer: Def Jam
Label: Def Jam
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 527358
UPC: 731452735829
EAN: 0731452735829
ASIN: B0000024K1
Release Date: May 2, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Countdown to Armageddon | | • | Bring the Noise - Public Enemy, Anthrax | | • | Don't Believe the Hype | | • | Cold Lampin' With Flavor - Public Enemy, Sadler, Eric "Vietn | | • | Terminator X to the Edge of Panic | | • | Mind Terrorist | | • | Louder Than a Bomb | | • | Caught, Can We Get a Witness? | | • | Show 'Em Whatcha Got | | • | She Watch Channel Zero?! - Public Enemy, Griffin, R. | | • | Night of the Living Baseheads | | • | Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy, Public Enemy | | • | Security of the First World | | • | Rebel Without a Pause | | • | Prophets of Rage | | • | Party for Your Right to Fight |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 173 more reviews...
 Revolutionary hip-hop October 15, 2008
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 ****!!!!!!! October 14, 2008
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! September 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
Greatest rap album ever. August 5, 2008
If you don't like this you stand against everything rap was about in its glory day. Fun, funky, clever, avant garde, and overwhelming. Best rap album ever (that I've heard), probably one of my ten favorite CDs.
Don't Believe The Hype......No, Wait A Minute.....BELIEVE IT! March 31, 2008
would you even hear anything like this on mainstream radio?
NO!(you'll only hear this kind of stuff on XM)
if you want hip-hop with a message,i suggest you cop this one..NOW!
and by the way, at the beginning of "don't believe the hype"
where you hear the man say "now here's what i want ya'll to do for me"
that's rufus thomas and the sample is from "do the funky chicken".
:)
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