Product Description

Public Enemy springs back into action with this album, which doubles as the soundtrack to Spike Lee's film. Reuniting the original Bomb Squad production team of Hank & Keith Shocklee, Eric Sadler and Gary G-Wiz with Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and Terminator X makes for an impressive mix of stylesand songs. In classic Public Enemy fashion, sampling is timely and well used.
The title cut features a sample from the Buffalo Springfield classic "For What It's Worth", as well as a newly recorded performance from Steven Stills. As such, it is Public Enemy's most radio friendly, commercial songto date. "Unstoppable" is a collaboration between PE and KRS-One. Producer Gary G-Wiz brings the two most pioneering rappers in history together for the first time on his underground head-banger. On "House of the Rising Sun", producer Kerwin Young makes clever use of a sample from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again". On the surface, HE GOT GAME is a soundtrack, but closer inspection reveals a classic PE album.

Track Listing

1. Resurrection - Masta Killa, Public Enemy
2. He Got Game - Stephen Stills, Voices Of Shabach Community Choir Of Long Island, Public Enemy
3. Unstoppable - KRS-One, Public Enemy
4. Shake Your Booty - Flavor Flav
5. Is Your God A Dog
6. House Of The Rising Son
7. Revelation 33 1/3 Revolutions
8. Game Face
9. Politics Of The Sneaker Pimps
10. What You Need Is Jesus
11. Super Agent
12. Go Cat Go
13. Sudden Death (Interlude)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15181 in Music
• Released on: 2001-03-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Soundtrack
• Running time: 48 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
True hip-hop heads, get happy. Public Enemy, with Flav, Griff and the Bomb Squad, are back. The seminal group's first album in four years serves double duty as the soundtrack for Spike Lee's wack-ass He Got Game, and as you'd figure from the film's B-ball theme, many of the rhymes are directed at the world of sports. Numerous tracks contain direct barbs at NBA commissioner David Stern, while "Politics of the Sneaker Pimps" aims its fury at the major shoe companies and their exploitation of foreign workers. True, long-time fans might have beef with PE's more Puffyesque moves, like obvious samples (Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" on the title track) and choirs, but there's no denying the rage of the message. Against PE's legacy, this disc might fall a bit short. But taken on its own terms, He Got Game gets nothing but net. --Amy Linden

Customer Reviews

Brilliant portrayal of a basketballers' struggle
(yahoo review) :
Denzel Washington does some of his best work as a prison inmate trying to earn himself an early release by talking his estranged son into playing basketball at the governor of New York's alma mater.
My review :
I gave this film 5 stars for its brilliant acting and gritty, real atmosphere. It is about a young basketball player (played by nba star ray allen) whos father is sent to prison for accidentally killing his mother, his father (denzel washington) is then told by his warden that he can get him out of prison if can pursuede his son to play for the wardens favorite college basketball team. For anyone has a faint interest in basketball or is a fan of this genre, i would advise seeing this film. It is clever, touching and a engaging watch.

Shake Shake your booty!
Public Enemy resurrected themselves with this soundtrack album and showed they can still put out a hardcore beat.

The most favourable track is "Shake Your Booty" with Flava Flav rapping like he did in the old days to a wicked dance beat. "House Of The Rising Son" provides that familiar hardcore sound and Chuck D still shows he got lines with "Politics Of The Sneaker Pimps".

However the rest of the album falls off, MastaKilla from Wu-Tang makes a low-form appearance on the first track "Resurrection" as does Smooth Da Hustler on "Game Face". The other tracks just don't live up to what you expect from PE.

Chuck D as always is still a tight rhymer and worth listening to on any track. PE have not pulled themselves back up to the level you would expect but they have shown they've still got game.

Excellent!!
Not being the greatest Denzel fan I was a little aprehensive at watching this for the first time. But to my suprise this was a well made, well acted story; about a young man's journey; caught between his father and the sport that he loves. Couple this well produced film with a sound track made up of the phatest Public Enemy tunes, you can't go wrong. The only question I have is why has it taken three years for this film to make it to the video sales market? If you have a few quid burning a whole in your pocket, and you want to buy a movie that you can watch over and over again, then this is the one for you. Enjoy!