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Listen to Public Enemy’s new album “Nothing is Quick in the Desert,” available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from now until Tuesday, July 4th at midnight.
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www.publicenemy.bandcamp.com
Public Enemy is my favorite, and in my opinion, the most important hip-hop group of all time. I became interested in the group after reading a Thrasher Magazine review of their first album which described Public Enemy’s music as “the new punk.” I was into punk and hardcore all through middle school and high school, but by 1987-1988 I felt they had run their course. I liked the Beastie Boys (who had coincidentally originally been a hardcore band) and Run DMC, but not until Public Enemy did I feel hip-hop was the new punk. I love Public Enemy’s first record: “Yo, Bum Rush The Show”, but it was only the warm up for the sonic, and lyrical firestorm of “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” and “Fear of a Black Planet.” Those records are must-have classics and showed P.E. to be one of the most important forces in music, politics, and culture of the late 20th century. Public Enemy has continued to tour and put out great records in the 30 years since. Chuck D, the group’s founder is an author, activist, and lecturer as well. Public Enemy has been a huge inspiration for me. – Shepard
From the Archives:
Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman
Public Enemy, 2008
Screen Print on Paper
18 x 24 inches
