Increasing concerns from record companies around copyright laws were not conducive to Public Enemy's 'wall of noise' approach, building tracks from large quantities of samples. To add to their woes, the data discs containing all the samples and bits and pieces for their fourth album were stolen, forcing them to go back to the drawing board. The PE production group the Bomb Squad took a back-seat as 'Executive Producers' leaving the Imperial Grandmasters of Funk to handle the bulk of the production duties.
The arrangements are less dense, more conventional hip-hop production, but still a bit more interesting than just 'beat-n-bass'.
As usual, the mixture of MCs' styles adds a nice bit of variety to things. Not really up to the standard of "It takes a nation of millions" or "Fear of a black planet" but it holds its own.
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