Track Listing

1. You're Gonna Get Yours
2. Sophisticated Bitch
3. Miuzi Weighs A Ton
4. Timebomb
5. Too Much Posse
6. Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man)
7. Public Enemy No.1
8. M.P.E.
9. Yo! Bum Rush The Show
10. Raise The Roof
11. Megablast
12. Terminator X Speaks With His Hands

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26895 in Music
• Released on: 1995-08-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 47 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
With Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Public Enemy introduce a new kind of bravado that's not just directed at other players and sucker MCs but is an out-and-out middle-finger challenge to the whole world, as these serious brothers roll right over you in a slow-moving convoy of '98 Oldsmobiles ("You're Gonna Get Yours"). PE crowd these tracks with disparate sounds that move your butt while they buzz from every channel. Despite their serious posturing, you'll be grateful for the sloppy bass line in "Timebomb" and Terminator X's brilliant tone experiment, "Public Enemy No. 1". Yo! isn't PE's masterpiece, but it's a truly standout album, a warning shot for the full-scale assault they would later initiate on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. --Todd Levin

CD Description
From "Strong Island" (Long Island, New York) came the unstoppable sound of Public Enemy, a rap band that saw itself as a vital, explicitly political voice in the black community.
YO! BUM RUSH THE SHOW, their debut album, filled a gap inhip-hop: raps that attempted to delineate black suffering in America, and instill pride in the place of hopelessness. The balance between Chuck D's explosive raps and Flavor Flav's humorous asides played perfectly off the scratching of DJ Terminator X. While some critics branded them "too hostile",their message spread to fans of all colours.

Customer Reviews

An absolute must for any hip hop fan's collection
This is PE's first and greatest album by far. The Beats, Chuck's rhymes and Flaves madcap antics took the hip hop world by storm in 1987. The title of best hip hop album (according to Hip Hop Connection) went to 'It takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back' (PE's 2nd album) but this is far superior. Produced by the legendary Hank Shocklee and Eric Sadler, the Sheer energy of 'My Uzi'and 'Public Enemy No 1' are worth the reduced asking price alone. A seminal and unsurpassable album in hip hop's history that sounds as fresh today as it did 13 years ago. You must buy this now.

Superb
One of the all-time great hip hop albums. Listen to this album and you can picture in your mind the Ghetto blasters, and Nike trainers with the laces hanging out....and my UZI which weighs a tonne.

A great start from a terrific act.
Whilst the other tracks are far from fillers, this debut album is allabout 'Public Enemy #1' which established the atonal sound of laterclassics such as 'Welcome to the Terrordome' with it's funk/jazz guitarquick stabs rather than longer, melodic riffs.