Production team the Bomb Squad were clearly on a roll with this, and Ice Cube's album a couple of entries earlier on the list.
Here Public Enemy revisit the 'wall of noise', and layered samples that seem more like sound collages to a beat, than just straight backing tracks. The MCs lay abrasive in-your-face rhymes over this... it's essentially a continuation of the sound of their brilliant sophomore album "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back".
If it aint broke, don't fix it.
As the title suggests, race relations, African American empowerment and the issue of white supremacy are addressed.
A great time for hip hop, and an intense listening experience. I can only guess at what it would be like to see these guys do their thing live.
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