eShop USA > Music > Fear of a Black Planet
Fear of a Black Planet
List Price: $9.98Our Price: $7.97 You Save: $2.01 (20%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Save $10.00 when you spend $50.00 or more on qualifying items offered by Amazon.com. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout.
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731452344625
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Def Jam
Manufacturer: Def Jam
MPN: 523446
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Def Jam
Release Date: July 26, 1994
Studio: Def Jam
Related Items: Featured Listmania!
Editorial Review:
PE's third album is dense, heavy, and urgent as a bullet. Fear of a Black Planet single-handedly added half a dozen phrases to the language, and not just from Chuck D.'s troop-rallying bellow--Flavor Flav's "911 Is a Joke" is as catchy an indictment of urban policy as anyone has ever come up with. The Bomb Squad's music is complicated, challenging, terse, and totally funky, and Chuck matches it with one impassioned pronouncement after another: on Hollywood's racism, on miscegenation, on "real history / Not his story." The album ends with "Fight the Power," the group's ultimate statement of purpose, from its pounding, atonal sound collage to its furious politics. Put Black Planet on, and it's always a long, hot summer. --Douglas Wolk
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Unique
This was my second PE album, I only knew 2 tracks from the cd. I bought this cd just because of the name op PE, and what a buy!
The Public Enemy style is unique. Chuck D with his raw voice and Flav with his more higher voice and light sense of humour, those two make a unique combination. Terminator X also makes the tracks immortal by mixing the beats with great samples and sort of solos in the chorus(like the drums in "Revolutionary Generation"). What also makes them unique is the "odd" ... Read More
Rating: - Easy listening for the Black Intellectual...
Without a doubt, THE BEST Rap record made in the nearly 30 year history of the genre. Few rap albums have come close to this gem, let alone touched the lyrical content & the raw abstract production of the Bomb squad. PE was damn serious & the genius of Flava Flav gave the message a perfect balance. PE was doing for rap in the late 80s & early 90s what Stevie Wonder did for Soul Music in the seventies. After "It takes a nation" exploded on the scene, they took it to the next level with 'Fear'. ... Read More
Rating: - Timeless Classic From Public Enemy!
What more can be said 18 years later from when this "Fear Of A Black Planet" album that hasn't been said already? This has been a vital part of hip-hop and music history in general with hall of fame songs like "Welcome To The Terrordome", "911 Is A Joke", "Burn Hollywood Burn", "B Side Wins Again", and "Fight The Power" which displayed Public Enemy at its peak conceptually and artistically, this is something that's gonna be remembered from many generations to come, one love, real music forever!
Rating: - Five freakin' stars.
Now this is how it's done. This album still gets constant rotation in my CD player. A classic album by talented guys who actually had SOMETHING TO SAY. A true classic.
Too bad NWA's style of gangsta nonsense had to win out in terms of mainstream influence, because hip hop could have become the new intelligent protest standard of music. Too bad indeed. But, for a short time, there was Public Enemy and their ilk. Get it.
Rating: - Don't even like Rap/Hip Hop
I'm not even a fan of Rap, and this is definitely in my top 10 records ever. What makes it great ? Everything. I learned more in 12 PE songs than in twelve years of public school. Have been a music listener for 25 tears, and I can truly say this is a masterpiece. Chuck D had the establishment worried. And for good reason. This is anti-racist, anti-stupidity musicmaking with the problems of our culture square in hand. All in a format which proclaims turntable spinner Terminator X as a certified musician, despite ... Read More
Related Categories:
| |
 |
