Author: Public Enemy

Format: Explicit Lyrics

Release Date: 03-09-2007

Details: Review It's not just that Chuck D can still dribble circles around the competition with raps that are smart and taut, but that the production is also state of the art. -- The Los Angeles TimesReuniting Public Enemy's original members and production posse, Chuck D & Co. bring the noise on their best album in years ... proving rap's notorious polemicists are back in the game. -- Entertainment WeeklyThe seminal hip-hop group's first CD in four years serves as the soundtrack for Spike Lee's basketball movie, He Got Game.... These aren't the feel-good, throw-your-hands-in-the-air anthems that are so hot these days, but Public Enemy, hip-hop's answer to Punk Rock, has always shown more interest in agitprop than body rocking.... [T]here's no denying the rage of rapper Chuck D's delivery or the wall of sound created by [Public Enemy's] production team, the Bomb Squad. -- People, Amy Linden Amazon.ca True hip-hop heads, get happy. Public Enemy, with Flav, Griff and the Bomb Squad, are back. The seminal group's first album in four years serves double duty as the soundtrack for Spike Lee's wack-ass He Got Game, and as you'd figure from the film's B-ball theme, many of the rhymes are directed at the world of sports. Numerous tracks contain direct barbs at NBA commissioner David Stern, while "Politics of the Sneaker Pimps" aims its fury at the major shoe companies and their exploitation of foreign workers. True, long-time fans might have beef with PE's more Puffyesque moves, like obvious samples (Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" on the title track) and choirs, but there's no denying the rage of the message. Against PE's legacy, this disc might fall a bit short. But taken on its own terms, He Got Game gets nothing but net. --Amy Linden

UPC: 731455813029

EAN: 0731455813029

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood