Who You Sell Soul To a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???

Performer: Public Enemy
Producer: Gary G Wiz; Redman; Flavor Flav
Distributor: Redeye Music Distribution

Notes: Public Enemy: DJ Lord, Pop Diesel S1W, James Bomb, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Chuck D. Additional personnel: KRS-One. It's funny to think that Public Enemy was once considered popular--mainstream at a time when rap music was anything but. Once the genre was inducted into pop culture, PE became a pariah, lauded by critics as Jurassic pioneers, but derided by younger generations for their message and shrill ideology. In the year 2007, Chuck D is as lyrically fit as ever and, surrounded by injustice aplenty, the crew's music is rich in relevance for hip-hop fans seeking a break from the hyper-capitalist tone that has overtaken the genre. On the follow-up to their exceptional 2006 release, BEATS & PLACES, Chuck, Flav, and company tackle a range of issues from corporate corruption of hip-hop to religious fanaticism to unchecked materialism to the group's continued struggle for a voice in the industry. As Chuck puts it on the title track, "Too dirty for the Source's Power 30/Too clean for 30-year-olds who wanna be 16," PE's militant stance and calls for social justice just don't fit in. Let's hope this one doesn't go over too many heads. DVD Features: 1. Where There's Smoke 2. PE20 Tour58 3. Power Planet Earth, Public Enemy 3. Live @ BB King's Foogtage 4. The Story Of The Public Enemy Comic Book 5. Do You Wanna Go Our Way??? The Post 1999 PE Video Collection 6. Photo Gallery 7. Slamjamz Video Jukeboxx

Alternative Press (p.176) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Public Enemy remain fiercely independent and definitely seem revitalized." The Wire (p.75) - "[T]his is PE's tenth studio album in their 20th year and their blunt anti-artiste, anti-materialist stance carries serious weight."

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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