Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

Fear of a black planet is a great rap album. You can tell it's quite old from the first minute but that isn't a negative point. I heard it first on my dad's vinyl copy and when I saw it in a second hand cd shop for £2 I grabbed it with no second thoughts. I feel I have to be in the right mood to listen to it, as i'm mainly a metal fan, but when you are in the mood it is an amazing album. It boasts 20 tracks with "Fight the power" being my favourite of the album. With tracks named "Power to the people", "Burn hollywood burn" and "Leave this off your Fu*kin charts" you can tell that this album is full of emotion and that Public Enemy ...  Read the complete review

This is the 1990 album from Public Enemy that was one of their most successful. The album includes absolutely classic singles such as 911 is a Joke, and Fight the Power. The album is dated these days and the general sound is the rap style of the earlys 90's late 80's. The album does have some musical quality, something that alot of albums at the same kind of time as this were missing! Burn Hollywood Burn is a good track, but the best on the album is Brothers Gonna Work It Out (which shares its name with a Chemical Brothers track, but not the same!) which has a great guitar track on it, with a good vocal. It is an old album so I would ...  Read the complete review

One of the essential non gangsta rap albums of the early nineties. A thought provoking attack on the state of america at that time, which has evidently changed little. Nobody is safe from PE from radio stations to the police , to hollywood, to the welfare state. The album will appeal to all hip hop fans, with it's positive attitude "If we stand together we can be strong" without resorting to bashing whites, and by education we can all get along. ...  Read the complete review