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After Fight The Power (1989), the theme song of a movie,
and Welcome To The Terrordome (1990), their first single,
Public Enemy returned with
Fear of a Black Planet (1990), containing the hits
911 Is a Joke, Brothers Gonna Work It Out, and Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man, besides Burn Hollywood Burn;
and the relatively uneventful
Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (1991), produced by
the Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk, that simply recycles the same old ideas for a white audience
(By The Time I Get To Arizona, Nighttrain, Shut Em Down).
Terminator X released two solo albums:
The Valley of the Jeep Beets (1991) and
Super Bad (1994).
Chuck D released The Autobiography of Mistachuck (1996).
In the meantime, the saga of
Public Enemy continued with the much sonically improved
Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (1994),
which was ignored because one of the worst music magazines in the USA
criticized it, but was actually one of their most musical efforts,
with powerful and engaging tracks such as
What Kind Of Power We Got,
What Side You On,
Hitler Day,
Bedlam 13:13.
He Got Game (1998) was limited by its original conception as a
movie soundtrack; and
There's a Poison Goin' On (1999) was released over the Internet.
Rebirth of a Nation (Guerrilla Funk, 2005) is a terrible parody of
the old Public Enemy sound.
New Whirl Odor (2005) is a bit better, but the sound is just not
what it used to be.
Power To The People And The Beats (Def Jam, 2005) is a career
retrospective.
Beats And Places (2007) collects unreleased tracks.
How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? (Slam Jamz, 2007) is not only an attempt to regain the political charisma of the early
days but also an implicit self-referential tribute, as the crew quotes its
own instrumental and lyrical past.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Mario Aloe)
Dopo Fight The Power (1989), tema principale di un film, e Welcome To The Terrordome (1990),
singolo anticipatore del nuovo album, i Public Enemy tornarono con Fear of a Black Planet (1990), che contiene 911 Is a Joke, Brothers Gonna Work It Out, and Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man e inoltre Burn Hollywood Burn; successivamente venne pubblicato Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (1991), privo del moredente dei precendenti album e che sostanzialmente ne ricicla le stesse idee ma per una platea bianca. Il disco contiene By The Time I Get To Arizona, Nighttrain, Shut Em Down ed è prodotto dall’ Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk.
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