Public Enemy
Fear Of A Black Planet LP (yellow vinyl)

It's the third studio album by Public Enemy, originally released on March 20, 1990, by Def Jam Recordings. It was produced by the group's production team The Bomb Squad, who sought to expand on the dense, sample-layered sound of Public Enemy's previous album, 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' (1988). Their songwriting was partly inspired by the controversy with member Professor Griff and his dismissal from the group in 1989. The album features elaborate sound collages that incorporate varying rhythms, numerous samples, media sound bites, and eccentric music loops, and reflect the content's confrontational tone. Conceived during the golden age of hip hop, its assemblage of reconfigured and recontextualised aural sources preceded the sample clearance system that later emerged in the music industry

NEW / Released in 1990 / Reissue 2025
 

Tracklist:

A-90

A1 Contract On The World Love Jam (Instrumental)

A2 Brothers Gonna Work It Out

A3 911 Is A Joke

A4 Incident At 66.6 Fm (Instrumental)

A5 Welcome To The Terrordome

A6 Meet The G That Killed Me

A7 Pollywanacraka

A8 Anti-Nigger Machine

A9 Burn Hollywood Burn

A10 Power To The People

B-91

B1 Who Stole The Soul?

B2 Fear Of A Black Planet

B3 Revolutionary Generation

B4 Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man

B5 Reggie Jax

B6 Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts (Instrumental)

B7 B Side Wins Again=

B8 War At 33 ⅓=

B9 Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Damned (Instrumental)=

B10 Fight The Power