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LIVE: Public Enemy (Pitchfork '08)
By Jim Shearer on 07/19/2008
Filed under: LIVEBecause I grew up on Public Enemy, and because It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back is one of my favorite hip-hop albums of all-time, I was both thrilled out of my mind and scared to death to see P.E. perform it in its entirety. (left: Nothing like taking pictures of Chuck D on the jumbo-tron when the lighting gets bad.) On one hand, if done correctly, by letting the Bomb Squad's instrumentals breath freely on the turntables and hoping that Chuck D and Flavor Flav could co-exist in perfect harmony, this performance could be downright... MORE »
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