Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", "...Most Powerful Rap Group..."-Rating: a, Ranked #2 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 10 (out of 10) - "...where do you go once you've made the greatest hip-hop album ever? Unbelievably, you consolidate that with an equally splendid follow-up....This time the sounds were softened slightly with flashes of `real' instrumentation but the content remained as astonishingly tough and intelligent as before...", 4 Stars - Excellent - Recommended by Q as one of the five best rap albums of 1990 and ranked as one of the Fifty Best Albums of 1990. - "...scalding attack on white supremacy...", Bloody Essential - "...slower, denser...funky. And it was a masterpiece....It's beyond perfect, built like a platinum beehive and stuffed with cordite--The Bomb Squad's last hands-on job for PE before they took on the task of...Ice Cube...", Ranked #37 in Nme's List of the `Greatest Albums of All Time.', 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Public Enemy has never aimed for anything less than a comprehensive view of contemporary black America...FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET complements this ambition with stunning maturity and sophistication...", "This Seminal Release -- a Lyrical and Aural Maelstrom -- Was a 911 Call to America.", 5 Stars - "...achieved the near impossible by being every bit as good as its predecessor. The music was Public Enemy's now-familiar scream but was augmented with a percussive tinge that reflected the ever greater Afrocentricity..."
