Ninja-Parents Blog

Quick Verdict It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was released on June 28, 1988, and landed like a controlled explosion in the middle of a culture that had not yet decided what rap was allowed to be. Public Enemy’s second album is the most politically radical, sonically confrontational, and historically significant rap album of its era — a record that used Chuck D’s voice as a weapon, the Bomb Squad’s production as a siege machine, and Flavor Flav’s jester energy