DU Album of the Day: Public Enemy - "Fear of a Black Planet"
As I was eating breakfast this morning I ran across "Do the Right Thing" on HBO (it was about halfway thru the movie). You have to admit that the movie was something powerful - a masterpiece by Spike Lee about racial tensions in America - mainly a Brooklyn neighborhood that was predominently African American and a neighborhood pizza place run by an Italian American family. One of the main songs played during the movie was 'Fight the Power' by Public Enemy - it was blared off the boom box being carried by Radio Raheem.
You'd thing in 20+ years that somehow race relations would improve but personally I think it's getting worse. You'd think that by electing a man president who is both black and white it would reflect that our country is unifying together and yet I see it being pulled apart even worse today. America is still like that neighborhood in Brooklyn - just one incident away from being torn apart at the seams; from bedlam.
Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Nation" was the very first rap album I ever bought. I was always a rock girl and never thought much of rap music but this one wasn't just about the message but the music was amazing too. A blend of rap, rock, jazz all fused with some amazing sampling - together it was one that I found enjoying again and again.
So today I'm picking it as DU's Album of the Day. Twenty-two years later this album still is a great sounding album. Not only did Rolling Stones Magazine list it as #300 of their top #500 albums of all time but it was also listed at the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress - that's a HUGE thing to have for an album.
Of course the signature son of the album is "Fight the Power"
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Enjoy today's DU Album of the Day!
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Did anyone try to fix it?
20+ years later it's still bad.
when I hear someone say rap music is shit.
It never works but I get to listen to it again so it's all good.
Please note that I did not say this is a go to album if someone says they don't like rap music. I can respect that someone doesn't like something and I give them the benefit of the doubt that they have tried or even that they are just basing their decision off whatever they may have heard. There's a lot of music I don't like too but I don't think it's shit.
Except Nickleback. That's pure shit.
