Beats And Places

Performer: Public Enemy
Distributor: Redeye Music Distribution

Notes: After an impressive resurgence in the early 2000s, the group that brought protest to hip-hop keeps things moving with another strong album, BEATS AND PLACES. The state of 21st century America is an endless source of outrage for Chuck D--as he puts it on "Hell No, We Ain't All right," (a single recorded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina), 'We got more issues to talk about.' From hip-hop's hyper-capitalist mentality, ("Air Conditioning") to mass media mind-control, ("Vidiot") to social injustice and corporate greed run amuck ("Sh*t"), Public Enemy's lead vocalist has plenty on his plate. And the presidential vocal samples ("Don't mess with George Dubya") on "Grand Theft Oil" may be the most frighteningly gangsta words heard in some time. DVD Features: Track List 1. Who Your Hero? 2. Electric Slave 3. Bring That Beat Back 4. Revolution 5. Superman's Black In The Building 6. The Hot 1 7. MKLVFKWR 8. Son Of A Bush 9. Revolveilution 10. Gotta Give The Peeps What They Need 11. Do You Wanna Go Our Way??? 12. Brake The Law Confrontation Camp Places (The Documentation) 1. A Look At THe Public Enemy Comic Book 2. The Jet Set Show Comic Interviews

In the late 1980s, Public Enemy connected the dots between politics, soul music, hard rock, marketing, turntablism, and rhyme, and turned hip-hop into an urban global youth movement. PE's pioneering albums are heralded as avant-garde artworks whose disparate sample sources combine into a gloriously chaotic mosaic of polyphony and African-American unrest. Powered by Chuck D.'s political fury, enlivened by Flavor Flav's antics, and made controversial by Professor Griff's ethnocentrism, Public Enemy influenced virtually every rapper who followed in their wake.

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