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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) is the most famous and critically lauded album by Public Enemy. It scored hits such as "Bring the Noise", "Caught, Can We Get a Witness?" and "Don't Believe the Hype". Tracklist:Side Silver "Countdown to Armageddon" (1:40) "Bring the Noise" (3:46) "Don't Believe the Hype" (5:19) "Cold Lampin' with Flavor" (4:17) "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic" (4:31) "Mind Terrorist" (1:21) "Louder Than A Bomb" (3:37) "Caught, Can We Get a Witness?" (4:53)Side Black "Show 'Em Whatcha Got?" (1:56) "She Watch Channel Zero?" (3:49) "Night of the Living Baseheads" (3:14) "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" (6:23) "Security of the First World" (1:20) "Rebel Without A Pause" (5:02) "Prophets of Rage" (3:18) "Party for Your Right to Fight" (3:24) |
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Protest Song: Almost every track. Any references to "Honeydrippers" are aimed at the seminal funk band most famous for their "Impeach The President" single, and not the Robert Plant side project from The '80s. |
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Face on the Cover: Chuck D. and Flavor Flav behind bars. |
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Great Escape: "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos", in which the protagonist is sent to jail for not wanting to join the army, yet escapes. |
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Hurricane of Puns: "Bring the Noise": "Cold Lampin' With Flavor": "She Watch Channel Zero": "Night of the Living Baseheads": The title in itself references the famous zombie movie Night of the Living Dead (1968), but it also provides puns on the word bass and base (another word for cocaine). "Party for Your Right to Fight" changes the word order of The Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right" and changes the content so that is not about a party (a feast, a celebration) but a political party, namely the Black Panthers. |
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Take That, Critics! |
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Take That, Critics!: "Bring the Noise" attacks the critics: Listen for lessons I'm saying inside music that the critics are blasting me for/ They'll never care for the brothers and sisters now, cause the country has us up for the war. |
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Wham Line: From "She Watch Channel Zero": |
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Sampling: The entire album. Chuck D.'s opening cry of Bass! and once again, back is the incredible in itself has been sampled by other artists too. He also addresses the accusations of sampling in Can I Get A Witness? "Don't Believe The Hype" samples Rufus Thomas' "Do The Funky Chicken" ("Now here's what I want y' all to do for me.") "Prophets Of Rage" samples "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind & Fire, "Cold Sweat" by James Brown and the "get a little stupid" line is a sample from "Pump That Bass" (1986) by Original Concept. "Party For Your Right To Fight" samples both "Fight For Your Right" by The Beastie Boys from Licensed to Ill and "Get Up, Stand Up" by Bob Marley, from Burnin'. The "ho yeah!" line is a sample from Sly and the Family Stone's "Sing A Little Song" from their album Stand! (1969). "Night Of The Living Baseheads" samples "Sucker M.C.'s" from Run–D.M.C.'s debut album Run-D.M.C. (1984). |
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Audience Participation Song: Many of the interludes and introductions on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back were recorded during their 1987 UK tour. |
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Hell Is That Noise: "Bring the Noise". |
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Conscious Hip Hop: Politics and social consciousness are a theme in every track. |
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Arc Words: "Public Enemy Number One" and "Bring the Noise" are all over their work. |
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Singer Namedrop: Just like any other hip hop band they do this too and often. |
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Mistaken for Racist:"Don't Believe the Hype": |
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Prison Episode |
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Prison Episode: Chuck D. and Flavor Flav are shown behind bars on the album cover. In Bring the Noise Chuck raps: "Now they got me in a cell, because my records they sell." "Black Steel in The Hour Of Chaos" tells a tale about a draft evader sent to prison, who escapes later. |
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Apocalypse How |
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Apocalypse How: "Countdown to Armageddon". |
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Lampshading: From "Cold Lampin' With Flavor" |
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Questioning Title?: "Caught, Can I Get A Witness?", "She Watch Channel Zero?" |
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Silly Love Songs |
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Silly Love Songs/Intercourse with You: "Caught, Can I Get A Witness" suggests that the former is a façade for the latter. |
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Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: "Louder Than a Bomb". |
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Wicked Stepmother: From "Louder Than A Bomb" |
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Political Rap: It's a Public Enemy record, after all. |
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Take That! |
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Take That!: From "Don't Believe The Hype": And from "Terminator X to the edge of panic" "Louder Than A Bomb" targets the CIA and FBI. |
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Precision F-Strike: The only vulgarities on It Takes A Nation are in "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos", "Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic" and "Rebel Without A Pause" ("I see you pissin' in your pants, you're scared of dissin' us"). |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "Countdown To Armageddon" informs us The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. "Bring The Noise" references Louis Farrakhan, The Black Panthers (the slogan Power of the People), Yoko Ono, Run–D.M.C., Eric B. & Rakim, LL Cool J and Anthrax. The voice that says "Too black, too strong" is Malcolm X. "Don't Believe The Hype" references Louis Farrakhan again, John Coltrane ("The treat me like Coltrane, insane"), the Bolo punch (a boxing punch by Sugar Ray Leonard), the Pan-African flag ("Get The Green, Black and Red"), Captain Kirk (Star Trek: The Original Series) and the slogan for Trix cereals ("No you can't have it back, silly rabbit.") In the same song Chuck D. raps: Word to Herb, yo if you can't swing this/Learn the words, you might sing this. This received a reply from Ice Cube in his song "Amerikkka's Most Wanted", where he rapped: "Word, but the fuck is Herb?" "Cold Lampin' With Flavor" refers to Magnum Brown's song "Shooski Balooski" and a TV ad for Imperial Maragarine ("Imperial Margarine put a crown on your head"). The song was also used in a scene from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. In "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic" a quote by Muhammad Ali is referenced: "You kill my dog, you better hide your cat." "Louder Than A Bomb" references the Frank Sinatra film Tony Rome. "Night Of The Living Baseheads" samples the line "First come, first basis" from Run–D.M.C.'s "Sucker MC's". In "Rebel Without A Pause" Chuck D. claims he is a supporter of Chesimard. Assata Shakur (married name JoAnne Chesimard), a black activist who has been living in Cuba in political asylum since 1984. She is the step-aunt of Tupac Shakur. He also reference the 1974 documentary: "O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose". "Prophets Of Rage": The title is a reference to a Life Magazine article about Malcolm X with the heading: "What ever happened to the prophets of rage?" He also namedrops black activists from the past like Marcus Garvey, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey and Gabriel Posser. With the line "Mandela, cell dweller, Thatcher/ You can tell her clear the way for the prophets of rage/(Power of the people you say)" he references Nelson Mandela, who was still in jail at the time for his activism against South Africa's apartheid system. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did nothing against the country's racial system and even declared Mandela "a terrorist". "Party For Your Right To Fight" references J Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver, as well as Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. |
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Live Album |
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Live Album: The intro has audio taken from a concert the group did in London. |
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Album Title Drop: From "Party For Your Right To Fight": |
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Drugs Are Bad |
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Drugs Are Bad: "The Night of the Living Baseheads". |
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Animal Motifs: Chuck D. calls himself "the rhyme animal". |
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Product Placement: Clorox and Xerox are mentioned in "Don't Believe The Hype". |
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