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LIKE IT? LOVE IT? HATE IT?

By Jim Shearer on 03/18/2009
Filed under: LIKE IT? LOVE IT? HATE IT?

Last year Public Enemy celebrated the 20th Anniversary of It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, by playing it from start-to-finish at select concert stops. This year P.E. will be doing it backed by hip-hop's unofficial house band, The Roots, at The Roots Picnic. MORE »

'08 WAS GREAT!: Best Educational Stage Banter

By Jim Shearer on 12/18/2008
Filed under: '08 WAS GREAT!

In 2008 Public Enemy celebrated the 20th Anniversary of their groundbreaking hip-hop masterpiece, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. The group (with all of their members intact, except Terminator X) played the album in its entirety at select tour stops. In between songs, Chuck D would drop a little history on the audience. Before P.E. broke into track #9, "Show 'Em Whatcha Got," Chuck told the crowd that the group used to sequence their albums with cassette tapes in mind--creating both an A-side and a B-Side. (above: Chuck D's stage banter: educational and informative!) Right... MORE »

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