PUBLIC ENEMY - New Whirl Odor Review

With 50 Cent applauding the Bush administration for its post-hurricane New Orlean's clean-up, it might be understating it to claim that hip hop has changed somewhat since Public Enemy's late Eighties heyday. Their overtly political stance seems about as contemporary as TheCabbage Patch Kids....full text On August 5 of this year, Chuck D turned 45 years old. That's only two years younger than my father...my father, whose favorite band is the Traveling Wilburys. And last I checked, that makes Chuck's group, Public Enemy, older than I am....full text No group has done more to open minds and expand the parameters of hip-hop than Public Enemy. But as P.E's original fanbase graduated from dorm rooms to mortgages, it largely abandoned the group, holding onto cherished memories of "Fight The Power" and It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back while steadfastly avoiding the group's increasingly low-profile new releases....full text