The groundbreaking production and revolutionary rhymage on this one just don't stand the test of time for me personally. I guess I'm jaded because of seeing Chuck D speak a couple of times and he's an annoying fucker. I'd put their first two albums above this one on my personal faves list, but this is the one that broke open public awareness for them, with the whole Professor Griff is an anti-semite media barrage that went down leading up to this one. Whatever. I thought this was one a little too layered and not as raw as Nations of Millions.
The one amazing thing about Public Enemy is, how the fuck did Flavor Flav and Chuck D co-exist like they did? A bug-eyed cokehead and a self-righteous teacher don't always make for easy bedfellows.
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