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Charles J. White

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Public Enemy were scorching. They hit the scene about the same time as the Beastie Boys...it was like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They laid waste to everything. What a crucial time that was...1986-87, when rap and hip-hop stormed into mainstream white consciousness.

Public Enemy's first three albums are still their best...the essential ones to own. "Yo! Bum Rush the Show", "It Takes a Nation of Millions...", and "Fear of a Black Planet" still have extraordinary power. I was lucky to see them in concert in their prime. Intense and the Bomb Squad's way with sound was killer.

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Public Enemy were scorching. They hit the scene about the same time as the Beastie Boys...it was like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They laid waste to everything. What a crucial time that was...1986-87, when rap and hip-hop stormed into mainstream white consciousness.

Public Enemy's first three albums are still their best...the essential ones to own. "Yo! Bum Rush the Show", "It Takes a Nation of Millions...", and "Fear of a Black Planet" still have extraordinary power. I was lucky to see them in concert in their prime. Intense and the Bomb Squad's way with sound was killer.

Great post Strider, PE were the game changer - a musical revolution was created, where most of everything in the rap genre since PE has been an evolution of the ground farmed by Chuck D!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am9BqZ6eA5c

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