In this case, you may believe the hype

The new Public Enemy best-of, Power To The People and The Beats came out yesterday. I was buying blank cds and dvs at Best Buy, and since the damn thing was on sale for eight bucks, I picked it up.

I’ve always liked Public Enemy, but I could never really call myself a fan. I’d liek to change that now. From “Public Enemy #1” to “Don’t Believe the Hype” to “He Got Game” (for which, incidently, they got Steven Stills to re-record the vocals to “For What It’s Worth”), it’s all fucking great. The beats are still fucking amazing nearly two decades after they first appeared.

I’ve been blasting this in the apartment pretty much non-stop since I bought it yesterday, and it’s getting to the point where I may be teaching my boys the Black Panther salute. Seriously, buy this. If you’ve been waffling as to what album to get, buy this, and you’ll be going after It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in no time.

There’s a reason as to why the Library of Congress named Fear Of A Black Planet as one of the 50 selected recorded works to be enshrined for preservation earlier this spring. Before this, only one other rap record had been chosen- The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5.

THEY’RE THAT FUCKING GOOD, PEOPLE!

It seems I accidently bought the edited version. Fuck.