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"Public Enemy"
Bring the Noise
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Public Enemy
жанры: hip-hop, rap, 80s
альбомы: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 25th Anniversary Collection, Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits, POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND THE BEATS - Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
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Bass! How low can you go? Death row, what a brother knows Once again, back is the incredible The rhyme animal The uncannable D, Public Enemy Number One Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb Can I tell 'em that I never really had a gun? But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun Now they got me in a cell cause my records, they sell Cause a brother like me said, "Well Farrakhan's a prophet and I think you ought to listen to What he can say to you, what you wanna do is follow for now" Power of the people, say "Make a miracle, D, pump the lyrical" Black is back, all in, we're gonna win Check it out, yeah y'all, here we go againTurn it up! Bring the noise! Turn it up! Bring the noise!Never badder than bad cause the brother is madder than mad At the fact that's corrupt as a senator Soul on a roll, but you treat it like soap on a rope Cause the beats and the lines are so dope Listen for lessons I'm saying inside Music that the critics are blasting me for They'll never care for the brothers and sisters Mow, cause the country has us up for the war We got to demonstrate, come on now, they're gonna have to wait Till we get it right Radio stations I question their blackness They call themselves black, but we'll see if they'll play thisTurn it up! Bring the noise! Turn it up! Bring the noise!Get from in front of me, the crowd runs to me My deejay is warm, he's X, I call him Norm, ya know He can cut a record from side to side So what, the ride, the glide should be much safer than a suicide Soul control, beat is the father of your rock'n'roll Music for whatcha, for whichin', you call a band, man Making a music, abuse it, but you can't do it, ya know You call 'em demos, but we ride limos, too Whatcha gonna do? Rap is not afraid of you Beat is for Sonny Bono, beat is for Yoko Ono Run-DMC first said a deejay could be a band Stand on its feet, get you out your seat Beat is for Eric B. and LL as well, hell Wax is for Anthrax, still it can rock bells Ever forever, universal, it will sell Time for me to exit, Terminator X-itTurn it up! Bring the noise! Turn it up! Bring the noise!From coast to coast, so you can stop being like a comatose "Stand, my man? The beat's the same with a boast toast" Rock with some pizzazz, it will last. Why you ask? Roll with the rock stars, still never get accepted as We got to plead the Fifth, we can investigate Don't need to wait, get the record straight Hey, posse's in effect, got the Flavor, Terminator X to sign checks, play to get paid We got to check it out down on the avenue A magazine or two is dissing me and dissing you Yeah, I'm telling you
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (в пер. с англ. Чтобы сдержать нас, потребуется многомиллионная нация) — второй студийный альбом американской рэп-группы Public Enemy, выпущенный 14 апреля 1988 года на Def Jam Recordings. Пластинка заняла 42 место в американском чарте Billboard 200 и восьмое — в британском хит-параде. К августу 1989 года её тираж превысил один миллион экземпляров, и она получила сертификат платинового диска от Американской ассоциации звукозаписывающих компаний.
Запись проходила в трёх нью-йоркских студиях: Chung King Studios, Greene Street Recording и Sabella Studios. Участники обратили внимание на восторженный приём своих живых выступлений и решили записать альбом в более быстром темпе по сравнению с предыдущим Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Альбом был весьма положительно принят музыкальными критиками и появился в списке «лучших альбомов» многих изданий. Музыкальные авторы рассматривают It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back как один из самых значительных альбомов 1980-х годов и один из величайших альбомов в жанре хип-хоп всех времён. Работу высоко оценили за технические приёмы, а также социально и политически окрашенные тексты основного эм-си группы Chuck D. В 2003 году диск занял 48-е место в списке «500 величайших альбомов всех времён» по версии журнала Rolling Stone; это наивысшая позиция в данном рейтинге для альбома в жанре хип-хоп.