Bring the Noise : Rolling Stone

Written by: Carlton Ridenhour, Eric Sadler, Hank Shocklee
Produced by: Rick Rubin, Carl Ryder
Released: April '88 on Def Jam
Charts: Did not chart

"We were the first rap group to really tempo it up," Chuck D said of this single. Over the Bomb Squad's souped-up horn riffs from Marva Whitney's "It's My Thing," PE showed how far-reaching its sound and political ambitions were, name-checking everyone from Yoko Ono and Anthrax (who later remade the song with Chuck D) to Louis Farrakhan.

Appears on: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)

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