Public Enemy Songs - Bring the Noise, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Fight the Power, Rebel Without a Pause, Night of the Living Baseheads (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Bring the Noise, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Fight the Power, Rebel Without a Pause, Night of the Living Baseheads, Stop the Violence Movement, Hell No We Ain't All Right , Don't Believe the Hype, You're Gonna Get Yours, Harder Than You Think, Make Love Fuck War, Black Is Back, Shut 'em Down, Yo Bum Rush the Show, Amerikan Gangster. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Bring the Noise" is a song by the hip hop group Public Enemy. It was included on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Less Than Zero and was also released as a single that year. It later became the first song on the group's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The single reached #56 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song's lyrics, most of which are delivered rapid-fire by Chuck D with interjections from Flavor Flav, include boasts of Public Enemy's prowess, an endorsement of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, retorts to unspecified critics, and arguments for rap as a legitimate musical genre on par with rock. The lyrics also have a remarkable metrical complexity, making extensive use of meters like dactylic hexameter. The title phrase appears in the chorus. The song includes several shout-outs to artists like Run-DMC, Eric B, LL Cool J and, unusually for a rap group, thrash metal band Anthrax, allegedly because Chuck D was flattered about Scott Ian wearing Public Enemy shirts while performing Anthrax gigs. Anthrax would later collaborate with Chuck D to cover the song. The song's production by The Bomb Squad, which exemplifies their characteristic style, features a dissonant mixture of funk samples, drum machine patterns, record scratching by DJ Terminator X, siren sound effects and other in...http: //booksllc.net/?id=10529370