Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???

Public Enemy ask the big question on their tenth studio album, which arrives a full 20 years after their epochal debut, Yo! Bum Rush The Show. Produced by Bomb Squad member Gary G-Wiz, the fifth studio release of PE’s post-Def Jam era is as dense as you could hope. Needless to say, the highlights are many and varied. Black Is Back kicks like a proverbial mule, Sex, Drugs & Violence features the formidable KRS-One, while the vibe-laden and hook-driven lead single, Harder Than You Think, inventively references Public Enemy No 1. Elsewhere, Escapism clicks as a knee-deep-in-tha-funk nod to the dear departed Godfather Of Soul, Flav cuts loose on Flavor Man and the autobiographical Bridge Of Pain, and The Long & Whining Road sees of Chuck D reflecting on 20 years of Public Enemy. As for their take on current world events, the reworking of Barry McGuire’s Eve Of Destruction tells you all you need to know. Still unafraid to stand apart from the crowd, ask awkward questions and target the guilty, and still committed to their revolutionary agenda, against all odds PE show it’s possible to create radical, incisive hip-hop in 2007. Don’t let any one tell you that’s not a major cause for celebration.