- hip hop, conscious hip hop, east coast rap
- 63 min
- 20 tracks
- Def Jam Recordings
Fear of a Black Planet is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy. It was released on April 10, 1990, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records, and produced by the group's production team The Bomb Squad, who expanded on the sample-layered sound of Public Enemy's previous album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988).
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Grave, character-led, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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Tracks
- A1Contract on the World Love Jam1:44
- A2Brothers Gonna Work It Out5:05
- A3911 Is a Joke3:17
- A4Incident at 66.6 FM1:38
- A5Welcome to the Terrordome5:26
- A6Meet the G That Killed Me0:45
- A7Pollywanacraka3:52
- A8Anti‐Nigger Machine3:17
- A9Burn Hollywood Burn2:46
- A10Power to the People3:48
- B1Who Stole the Soul?3:52
- B2Fear of a Black Planet3:42
- B3Revolutionary Generation5:43
- B4Can’t Do Nuttin’ for Ya Man2:47
- B5Reggie Jax1:36
- B6Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts2:31
- B7B Side Wins Again3:46
- B8War at 33⅓2:08
- B9Final Count of the Collision Between Us and the Damned0:49
- B10Fight the Power4:43
20 tracks, 63 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Public Enemy
- Label
- Def Jam Recordings
- Released
- 1990
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Cassette
- Country
- NL
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