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Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits (Parental Advisory),Public Enemy

- Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits (Parental Advisory)
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Public Enemy
Released 2005

Don't Believe The Hype
05:20
9,708 plays

Shut Em Down
04:19
8,073 plays

Brothers Gonna Work It Out
05:08
7,891 plays

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songs

- 1
- You're Gonna Get Yours
- 04:05
- 10,985 plays

- 2
- Public Enemy No.1
- 04:42
- 14,574 plays

- 3
- Rebel Without A Pause (Vocal Version)
- 04:16
- 12,097 plays

- 4
- Bring The Noise
- 03:46
- 11,359 plays

- 5
- Don't Believe The Hype
- 05:20
- 9,708 plays

- 6
- Prophets Of Rage
- 03:18
- 5,558 plays

- 7
- Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Single Version)
- 03:43
- 7,399 plays

- 8
- Fight The Power
- 04:37
- 11,942 plays

- 9
- Welcome To The Terrordome
- 05:25
- 16,210 plays

- 10
- 911 Is A Joke
- 03:17
- 11,139 plays

- 11
- Brothers Gonna Work It Out
- 05:08
- 7,891 plays

- 12
- Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya, Man!
- 02:48
- 10,366 plays

- 13
- Can't Truss It
- 04:51
- 12,605 plays

- 14
- Shut Em Down
- 04:19
- 8,073 plays

- 15
- By The Time I Get To Arizona (Without Intro)
- 04:00
- 7,053 plays

- 16
- Hazy Shade Of Criminal
- 04:46
- 5,635 plays

- 17
- Give It Up
- 04:44
- 5,391 plays

- 18
- He Got Game
- 04:46
- 37,027 plays

album review

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, All Music Guide