I was scrolling through my ipod and I came across Public Enemy's seminal album released in 1988, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. I thought about the irony in the title. If you are a true fan of Hip-Hop then you are familiar with PE and their message. PE's frontman Chuck D was full of Black rhetoric. As a people we have often been perceived as being our own worst enemies, or as the old adage goes crabs in a bucket. So I pose this question; have we held ourselves back as a people? In a familial, educational, communal, and economical sense: have we surrendered? The irony in the title is that true indeed it does take a nation of millions to hold us back; but was it our own doing?
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: From PE's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions......
Eric, Nations of Millions best Rap/Hip Hop cd ever??? Gotta be right there.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Davy, that album was mind-blowing to say the least. From the sound to the lyrics. There still hasn't been an album that can match it in my opinion. This album should be in every Hip-Hop lovers top 3 at least.
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