Total masterpiece, 10/10. As Bob Dylan injected intelligence into rock music, Public Enemy did the same for hip-hop two decades later. The dense sound collage perfected by the Bomb Squad, layering beats on beats, samples upon samples, PE even sampling PE! Chuck D’s magisterial baritone raps, Flavor Flav’s comic reliefs bobbing in and out, Terminator X’s scratches. The spirit of James Brown's original "funky drummer" Clyde Stubblefield flows through this album. The whole thing is….relentless is the word that comes to mind. It has everything, it contains multitudes. One of the few albums that takes my breath away to this day.

huge album. saw them play the whole record start to finish for an anniversary show a few years back and it was excellent. especially when chuck d got a bit tired towards the end and went for a sit down and flava flav arsed around on the drums for about 10 minutes.