After an impressive resurgence in the early 2000s, the group that brought protest to hip-hop keeps things moving with another strong album, BEATS AND PLACES. The state of 21st century America is an endless source of outrage for Chuck D--as he puts it on "Hell No, We Ain't All right," (a single recorded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina), 'We got more issues to talk about.' From hip-hop's hyper-capitalist mentality, ("Air Conditioning") to mass media mind-control, ("Vidiot") to social injustice and corporate greed run amuck ("Sh*t"), Public Enemy's lead vocalist has plenty on his plate. And the presidential vocal samples ("Don't mess with George Dubya") on "Grand Theft Oil" may be the most frighteningly gangsta words heard in some time.
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Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)
Consistent Public Enemy has been very generous to their fans with all the material they've released on CD & DVD. Out of all those releases, Beats and Places is the most consistent in terms of the quality of the tracks. Submitted by wjhatch72 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 2 found this helpful.
PE #1 PE doesn't have a bad album.
PERIOD. Submitted by D.L.Whit (NewJersey) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 2 found this helpful.
Excellent!!!!! This is a great album of rare Public Enemy outtakes, remixes and b-sides. You would think that this would make the album less then great. After all, if these tracks weren't good enough for past albums then they must not be worthy songs. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this was not the case at all. The tracks on this CD are all worthy of release. In fact, they're great!!! I don't know how Public Enemy can release so much high quality music in such a short period of time. The group has released 4 studio albums and 1 live album in 2006 and 2 studio albums in 2007. Not one of which has been poorly made. They have all received stellar reviews by most critics. The only other band in the history of music that never released a bad album and had such a huge output was the Beatles! Public Enemy are the Beatles of rap. Submitted by Bill (San Francisco, CA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 2 found this helpful.
What a hell - this is incredible!! If you thought that PE is out of the game - you are so wrong! Buy this now and listen all these fantastic funk beats and Chuck's fantastic voice over and over and over and over again. Pure pleasure! 10/10 Submitted by toni.peltola (Suomi, Vantaa) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 3 found this helpful.
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