Sophomore by Public Enemy. It's important to start from this point. One of the key points of hip hop is a sophomore who has paved the way for everyone, perfect, flawless. It's a raw and honest album, hard and pure, hardcore, relentless, unstoppable, it's a tank that comes against you with authority to bomb you in the face!
Fresh and intelligent, made with a passion that's difficult to digitally report, it's as energetic as no album has been in hip hop before. Many feelings are enclosed in this record, and they all explode while listening, it's a very powerful and intimidating effort. The production is made by the Bomb Squad, which provides an amazing, fresh and modern sound, hard, angry, explosive rhythms, composed of excellent stratified samples and punctual scratches of Terminator X, a spectacular DJ that provides the hardest scratches that you can hear in a hip hop album, reinforcing the beats: it's one of the hardest and most innovative productions of the period.
Over this tough soundscape, Chuck D gives voice to those who have never had it, he goes stronger than the bombs, he hits with clear and cultural lyrics, political, socio-conscious, punctual, relevant, excellent and coherent, brutally honest, his narratives are complex and intricate, delivered in tight, hard rapping, with a nervous and impeccable flow, technically crystalline, spitting with uncontrolled anger and performing with an extraordinary personality and an excellent presence on the mic: Chuck D kills everything here, before him nobody has rendered qualitatively so well, he asks and gets attention, the MC brings into play a revolutionary force, a clear vision and being able to boast one of the best vocabularies of the game, he offers an angry and fierce performance, intense, pure, with a strong expanding, dominant, imposing voice, which perfectly fit the sound chosen by the Bomb Squad.
To his heavy and busy bars, Flavor Flav is the perfect hype man who adds humorous, surrealist and fun rhymes that lighten the tension and beautifully balance the album, offering a pleasant comic relief. The instrumental cuts are as fantastic as they're necessary, because they provide you with a fundamental mental interruption due to the continuous exhausting siege of Chuck D, making the album deeply flowing also from the musical point of view.
All cuts are classic, even the solo one by Flavor Flav, the whole project is a masterpiece without fillers and crossover, it's creative, original, innovative, finely made, purely dope. Among the most impressive hip hop album ever, it's a monumental timeless political document with an epic atmosphere, revolutionizes the conscious and gives life to political, soon becoming one of the best hip hop records of the eighties and one of the best in musical history. Must-have for anyone who claims to be a true-head. Melle Mel showed that hip hop could also contain a real message behind that bare drum machine. Public Enemy confirmed it, 10/10.
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