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April 15, 2004

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 44) Public Enemy

By Adam Yauch

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How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?

"I've been a spokesperson for a generation," Chuck D notes on "Long and Whining Road," a proud fact whose modest past tense suggests why these commercial has-beens still make terrific albums. Chuck has nothing to prove and plenty to say. Flavor Flav is the funniest rapper ever to bamboozle VH1. And ...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

New Whirl Odor

2005

Revolverlution

2002

There's A Poison Goin' On

1999

He Got Game

1998

Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age

1994

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Arguably the most important and politically controversial group of its time, Public Enemy introduced a hard, intense, hip-hop sound and vocal delivery that changed the course of rap and influenced a generation of artists. Public Enemy's inventive production team, the Bomb Squad, tailored a unique, noisy, layered avant-garde-inspired pop sound that incorporated sirens, skittering turntable scratche...

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