Public Enemy

Public Enemy is a band / group associated with United States whose catalog here spans 1987–2005. The artist is connected with Conscious Hip-Hop, Golden Age Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop, so genre, period and individual recordings offer useful ways into the work.

Listen for how Conscious Hip-Hop, Golden Age Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop shape rhythm, voice and arrangement. A starting path includes “Bring the Noise”, “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”, “Caught, Can We Get a Witness?”, “Cold Lampin’ With Flavor”. Then move to “Fear of a Black Planet” and “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” to hear how recordings are organized in a release context.