Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Public Enemy Main Performer
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| 1 | You're Gonna Get Yours | Shocklee/Ridenhour | 4:05 |
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| 2 | Public Enemy No. 1 | Ridenhour/Shocklee | 4:41 |
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| 3 | Rebel Without a Pause | Sadler/Shocklee/Rid | 4:18 |
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| 4 | Bring the Noise | Ridenhour/Shocklee/ | 3:47 |
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| 5 | Don't Believe the Hype | Ridenhour/Sadler/Sh | 5:19 |
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| 6 | Prophets of Rage | Sadler/Ridenhour/Sh | 3:20 |
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| 7 | Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos [Single Edit] | Shocklee/Sadler/Dra | 3:43 |
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| 8 | Fight the Power | Ridenhour/Shocklee/ | 4:36 |
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| 9 | Welcome to the Terrordome | Sadler/Shocklee/Rid | 5:26 |
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| 10 | 911 Is a Joke | Shocklee/Sadler/Dra | 3:17 |
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| 11 | Brothers Gonna Work It Out | Shocklee/Sadler/Rid | 5:08 |
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| 12 | Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man [Clean Edit] | Shocklee/Ridenhour/ | 2:47 |
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| 13 | Can't Truss It | Robertz/G Wiz/Riden | 4:52 |
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| 14 | Shut Em Down | Robertz/Depper/Ride | 4:19 |
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| 15 | By the Time I Get to Arizona | Robertz/G Wiz/Riden | 4:00 |
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| 16 | Hazy Shade of Criminal | Ridenhour/JBL/Drayt | 4:50 |
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| 17 | Give It Up | Thomas/Isbell/G Wiz | 4:43 |
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| 18 | He Got Game [Radio Edit] | Stills/Ridenhour/Le | 4:45 |
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Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Audio Compact Disc
Label: Def Jam
Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
UPC: 602498616611
Release Date: 08/02/2005
Original Release Date: 08/02/2005
Number of Discs: 1
- Public Enemy
Main Performer
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Apart from their 2001 installment in Universal's ongoing 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series, Public Enemy had not been given a career compilation prior to 2005's Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits. The 2001 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 release recorded during these ten years is 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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
