Product Description

APOCALYPSE '91-THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK finds Strong Island's finest plying their raucous, angry trade once again, as unapologetic as ever. Their place in rap history was long secured by 1991, but the trio doesn't waste a second resting on its laurels--the album's opening salvo, "Lost At Birth" is militant and severe, introducing them as the "prophets of rage". Chuck D's no-nonsense delivery contrasts Flava Flav's manic rage, while turntable master Terminator X serves up an endless assault of hardcore sonic shrapnel.
"Nighttrain" is a staccato barrage, relentless and steeped in the blend ofextreme racial pride and paranoia which put PE on the map. In "By the Time I Get To Arizona", they direct their vitriolat the state that rejected Martin Luther King's holiday. "1Million Bottlebags" takes on beer manufacturers who target inner-city markets, exposing the self-destructive urge that fuels this practice. Thrash masters Anthrax climb aboard foran unlikely pairing, beefing up PE's classic "Bring the Noize".

Track Listing

1. Lost At Birth
2. Rebirth
3. Nighttrain
4. Can't Truss It
5. I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga
6. How To Kill A Radio Consultant
7. By The Time I Get To Arizona
8. Move! - Public Enemy, Sister Souljah
9. 1 Million Bottlebags
10. More News At 11
11. Shut Em Down
12. A Letter To The New York Post
13. Get The F... Outta Dodge - Public Enemy, True Mathematics
14. Bring Tha Noize - Anthrax, Public Enemy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28258 in Music
• Released on: 1995-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 51 minutes

Customer Reviews

DISSAPOINTING...
After the previous 2 albums, both bona fide rap AND music classics, this was a let down - the production is excellent BUT the songwriting feels
kind of 'by numbers'.
The opening couple of tracks are excellent with some real aggression but by the time you're 3 or 4 tracks in, it's unremarkable! And it feels like it's almost playing it safe.
Metal fans (that includes me!) should enjoy the team up with Thrash legends, Anthrax, on Bring Tha Noize, but there's a LOT of filler inbetween the good stuff at the start and then this final track!
Basically, not the best place to start, but a few good tracks - IF you can get it at a fair price....

underrrated!!!!!!!
I've just rebought this album - one I loved a few years back but lost my cassette version somewhere along the line. I think first rap album I purchased...

Even if 'Fear of a black planet' or 'Takes a nation of millions...' might be more revered, and it came out a bit after their golden age, there is genius at work here.

I love 'By the time I get to Arizona...' - it's got that epic intro and great lyrics with PE raging over a state with sparkling PR sheen but a stinking underbelly. "what's a smiling face when the whole state's racist"... A line delivered with
righteous anger! Worth getting the album for that track alone.

The last great PE album
This album represents the end of Public Enemy's best period, their fourth album in a 5 year period when they blew everyone away and inspired the political "afrocentric" period of hiphop.
The strain is already starting to show as the album never quite lived up to it's predecessor "Fear of a Black Planet", yet there is undeniable quality here in tracks like "shut em down" and "By the time I get to Arizona".
It's a storming noisy militant album, with Chucka nd Flav still spitting over some incredible hooks, the originality of their sound not yet worn thin. I wish they were still as good and as consistent as this...