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Today in Hip Hop History:
Public Enemy released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush The Show February 10, 1987
Public Enemy “It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back” 1988
Set the scene to semi-rural Minnesota 1989. It’s summer, you’ve slept in, mom and dad are at their respective jobs, you shuffle on downstairs to get some breakfast (usually Cheerios with honey), and sit down at the kitchen table to find a list of chores from your mother to do, your twelve year old little brother appears. Do we get to work? NO! We put the speakers in the window, lounge in the shade in the front yard, and crank this album. Such was my life in my 17th summer…. I somehow hooked my little brother into a lifetime love of hip-hop (and reggae). This album and the next two PE albums mean the world to me on a personal level.
It helps that the album is a real banger all around. Especially “Night Of The Living Baseheads”. When I got a little older I started to move away from hip hop because I really didn’t like the attitudes towards women in the lyrics (this was around the time that Gangsta Rap was taking over) but I always held a soft spot for some old political rap (i also rediscovered the native tongues groups). Anyways, enough rambling, on to the music…
What’s funny is that none of my friends liked any of this stuff. Whereas I could somehow equate with the most political punk rock they just saw it as lame noise so my brother was the only one I could really share this stuff with.
As far as the chores went we wait until about half an hour before mom came home and we’d knock them out in a mad scramble until she started to pull into the driveway. Kids those days…
Can’t hold us back. 🟥🟨⬛️🟩⏰🎤
Lucky me! @justmakesuresheeatsthemouse chose my card at random (A♦️) and asked me to name one of the first albums I ever purchased or was gifted to, then a favorite song off of it.
"Can't Truss It" was released as the lead-off single right when this album came out. I raced right to the shopping mall and got the cassette. That wasn't my favorite track off of it. "Shut 'Em Down" gets that honor.
Public Enemy were on a roll. Their momentum took off with "Fight The Power" from Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing along with "911 Is A Joke" and Fear Of A Black Planet. You had almost everyone here: Chuck D, Flavor Flav (and his clock), Terminator X, The SW1's, and The Bomb Squad. Harry Allen and Sista Souljah, too! I say 'almost': they let go of that crackpot Professor Griff prior to this record.
We Long Islanders were in the midst of hip-hop's golden era and had it good. This group, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, Grand Daddy IU, LL Cool J, and Original Concept (Yo! MTV Raps' Ed Lover & Dr. Dre) all represented us with more definitely to come.
@tewz, @sheisthesisterofnight, @chouchousan, @tamara-kama, @polvo-lunar, @lysistra; what was yours?
The holocaust I’m talking about is the one that’s still going on
