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    Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits (Clean)

    08/02/2005 | Def Jam 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Apart from their 2001 installment in Universal's ongoing 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection series, Public Enemy have not been given a career compilation prior to 2005's Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits. That comp overlooked such major cuts as "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," plus it was sequenced in a non-chronological order. Power to the People rights those two wrongs by including all of PE's major songs from 1987-1998 -- which doesn't mean it's all their best music, of course -- presented in a chronological fashion, beginning with "You're Gonna Get Yours" and ending with "He Got Game." As such, it provides not only a useful summary of their groundbreaking work, it's also a bracing, exciting listen in its own right. Of course, each individual Public Enemy recorded during the last ten years (as of this 2005 release) are worth hearing -- especially 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and 1990's Fear of a Black Planet, which are two of the great works of art of the 20th century -- but for those who want a quick introduction to the greatest hip-hop group of all time, this fits the bill perfectly. [Power to the People and the Beats was also released in a clean version, containing no profanity.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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    • Carl Ryder
    • Arranger, Advisor, Creation, Sequencing, Executive Producer, Director, Producer
    • Keith Shocklee
    • Arranger, Director, Creation, Sequencing, Executive Producer, Producer, Programming
    • Hank Shocklee
    • Arranger, Drum Programming, Sequencing, Synthesizer Programming, Creation, Advisor, Mixing, Executive Producer, Producer, Programming, Director
    • Eric "Vietnam" Sadler
    • Arranger, Programming, Producer, Director, Drum Programming, Sequencing, Creation, Synthesizer Programming, Assistant Producer
    • Bill Stephney
    • Bass, Producer, Guitar, Production Supervisor, Mixing
    • Chuck D
    • Bass, Group Member, Executive Producer, Voices


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