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Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black

Public EnemyAudio CD
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  • Audio CD (September 6, 1994)
  • Original Release Date: 1991
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Def Jam
  • ASIN: B0000024IM
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,517 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Lost At Birth
2. Rebirth
3. Nighttrain
4. Can't Truss It
5. I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga
6. How To Kill A Radio Consultant
7. By The Time I Get To Arizona
8. Move!
9. 1 Million Bottlebags
10. More News At 11
11. Shut Em Down
12. A Letter To The New York Post
13. Get The F--- Outta Dodge
14. Bring Tha Noize (w/Anthrax)

 

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Apocalypse Now., November 10, 2002
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This review is from: Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (Audio CD)
As I continually turn a contemptuous nose at much of modern hip hop, I'm relieved that there are acts like Public Enemy that remind me of the genre that once had something important to say. Clearly, "Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black" lacks the vitality of "It Takes a Nation of Millions..." or the sucker punch of its masterpiece "Fear of a Black Planet." But there are enough strokes of brilliance and hard-hitting messages to remind us how PE earned its clout in hip hop. Chuck D gives us a chilling account of the slave trade in the single "Can't Truss It (Divided and sold/for liquor and gold/Smacked in the back/ for the other man to mack)," and he justly rakes Arizona over the coals for ignoring the MLK holiday in "By the Time I Get to Arizona." Flava Flav jumps in to denounce the n-word in "I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga," which seems ahead of its time now that these modern rappers liberally use this, um, term of endearment. I personally could have done without the closer, "Bring the Noize" a track featuring Anthrax that would help shape up the rap-rock craze that's currently being run into the ground by jokers like Limp Bizkit. At times, "Apocalypse..." seems a wee bit like a pale imitation of its last two records, but even a disc as flawed as this still holds up tremendously well. While it's not as essential as "Fear..." or "It Takes a Nation...," Public Enemy's fourth album is still a potent documentary of an America still immersed in friendly fascism.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black, February 9, 2005
This review is from: Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (Audio CD)
In my opinion, this is a classic album. It's almost as good as 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back', and I definately think it's one of the best albums of all time, and Chuck D would be in my top 5 rappers or so of all time.
(Produced by The Imperial Grand Ministers Of Funk)
(Executive Produced by The Bomb Sqauad)

1.Lost At Birth-4.5/5-Chuck D drops only 1 verse on this one, but its a great intro
2.Rebirth-4.5/5-Only 59 seconds, but Chuck drops another hot verse
3.Nighttrain-5/5-Definately one of the best tracks on the CD, great flow and energy from Chuck, and hot production (Samples Kool Moe Dee's 'How Ya Like Me Now')
4.Can't Truss It-5/5-Another stand out, one of the best tracks lyrically from Chuck, and more of some of the best production on an album of all time in my opinion (Samples Run-DMC's 'Dumb Girl')
5.I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo N****-4/5-Flava Flav is basically rambling on the whole track, but there's some stand out production
6.How To Kill A Radio Consultant-5/5-Chuck's flow is especially hot on this one
7.By The Time I Get To Arizona-5/5-One of the great things about Chuck is that he is a smart MC, and raps about social and political issues. Not something you'll find in the average rapper. Another one of my favorites on the CD (Single)(Featured in 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4')
8.Move!-5/5-Another great high energy track (Featured in 'Def Jam Fight For NY')
9.1 Million Bottle Bags-5/5-Great song adressing alchohol in America (over a hot beat, too)
10.More News At 11-5/5-Short song, but a hot flow from Flav
11.Shut Em Down-5/5-Another one of the best on the CD, great lyrically (Later sampled by DJ Premier/The Notorious B.I.G. in 'Ten Crack Commandments')
12.A Letter To The NY Post-5/5-Flav isnt the best lyricist, but he can have a great flow, hot song
13.Get The F*ck Out Of Dodge-5/5-Great song, and the end unfortunately describes many cops today

"Sergent Hawke and i'm down wit' the cop scene
I'm a rookie and i'm rollin' wit' a swat team
Packin' a nine can't wait to use it
Crooked cop yeah that's my music
Up against the wall don't gimme no lip son
A bank is robbed and you fit the description
And i ain't your mama and i ain't your pops
Keep your music down or you might get shot
This is a warning so watch your tail
Or i'm a have to put your a** in jail
I'm the police and i'm in charge
You don't like it get the f*** outta dodge"

14.Bring Tha Noize (Remix)Featuring Anthrax-5/5-A rock remix to my favorite Public Enemy song, with Anthrax doing the hook and 2 of Chuck's verses, actually a great song

Vastly underrated CD, highly reccomended
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hardcore Thrillers Of Rap, February 26, 2004
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Coming down after the twin high-water marks of It Takes a Nation of Millions and Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy shifted strategy a bit for their fourth album, Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black. By and large, they abandon the rich, dense musicality of Planet, shifting toward a sleek, relentless, aggressive attack -- Yo! Bum Rush the Show by way of the lessons learned from Millions. This is surely a partial reaction to their status as the Great Black Hope of rock & roll; they had been embraced by a white audience almost in greater numbers than black, leading toward rap-rock crossovers epitomized by this album's leaden, pointless remake of "Bring the Noise" as a duet with thrash metallurgists Anthrax. It also signals the biggest change here -- the transition of the Bomb Squad to executive-producer status, leaving a great majority of the production to their disciples, the Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk. This isn't a great change, since the Public Enemy sound has firmly been established, giving the new producers a template to work with, but it is a notable change, one that results in a record with a similar sound but a different feel: a harder, angrier, determined sound, one that takes its cues from the furious anger surging through Chuck D's sociopolitical screeds. And this is surely PE's most political effort, surpassing Millions through the use of focused, targeted anger, a tactic evident on Planet. Yet it was buried there, due to the seductiveness of the music. Here, everything is on the surface, with the bluntness of the music hammering home the message. Arriving after two records where the words and music were equally labyrinthine, folding back on each other in dizzying, intoxicating ways, it is a bit of a letdown to have Apocalypse be so direct, but there is no denying that the end result is still thrilling and satisfying, and remains one of the great records of the golden age of hip-hop.
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