It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the second studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on June 28, 1988, by Def Jam...
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Without a Pause" is a song by hip hop group Public Enemy and the first single from their 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The title...
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Hour of Chaos" is a song on the American hip hop group Public Enemy's 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. It was released as a single...
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Canongate U.S. ISBN 1-84195-615-5. Weingarten, Christopher R. (2010). Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. 33⅓. Vol. 71. A&C Black...
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expanded on the sample-layered sound of Public Enemy's previous album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). Having fulfilled their initial...
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Bring the Noise (section Used as a sample)
as a single that year. It later became the first song on the group's 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The single reached No...
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Public Enemy discography (category Discographies of American artists)
album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, in April 1988. The album peaked at number 42 on the Billboard 200. It has since sold 1.3 million copies...
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phrase "cold medina" a year earlier on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, "cold medina" was one of his assertive affirmations throughout the...
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is a song by hip hop group Public Enemy and the second single to be released from their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The...
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Public Enemy (redirect from Security of the 1st World)
released in 1987 to critical acclaim, and their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), was the first hip hop album to top The Village...
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supremacist film The Birth of a Nation as well as one of the group's prior albums, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Despite the Public Enemy...
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member of Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad. He has contributed his talent to several albums including It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear...
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Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The lyrics deal with the effects of crack cocaine on African-Americans during the 1980s crack epidemic, referring to the...
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Nick Sansano (category Berklee College of Music alumni)
of popular music[citation needed]. He also engineered and mixed selections from Public Enemy's albums It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,...
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reissue of the group's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. "Countdown to Armageddon" "Public Enemy No. 1" "Miuzi Weighs a Ton" "Night...
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Zero?!" from the 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman wrote "Angel of Death" after reading books about...
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of the Public Enemy song "Prophets of Rage" from its 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. To coincide with the band's protest performance...
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Rick Rubin production discography (category Discographies of American artists)
"Jack the Ripper" 1988: Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (exec.) 1988: Slayer – South of Heaven 1988: Danzig – Danzig 1988: Run-DMC –...
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Robert S. – 'Good as Gold' / 'Big Words' Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew – The Worlds Greatest...
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"Rebel Without a Pause" (Vocal Version) (C. Ridenhour, H. Shocklee, E. Sadler, N. Rogers) (from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back) – 4:18 "Bring...
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According to the 2010 book Christopher R. Weingarten book It takes a nation of millions to hold us back, the song was an early inspiration to Rick Rubin...
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uncredited sample of "Security of the First World", a song by Public Enemy from their 1988 studio album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Both "Instrumental...
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Flavor Flav (category American people convicted of burglary)
much wider fame with their following release, 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, which went double platinum. By the time the political...
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(PDF). "Dennis Coffey US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 September 2011. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Media notes). Public...
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Fight the Power (Public Enemy song) (category Cultural depictions of John Wayne)
after the release of their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy were preparing for the European leg of the Run's House...
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hip hop and house. Late-1980s hip hop albums such as It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988) by Public Enemy, 3 Feet High & Rising (1989)...
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Chuck D (category Prophets of Rage members)
to his Def Jam Records. Their major label releases were Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987), It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), Fear of a...
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unknown 1989: N.W.A. Best Album: Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back • Best Single: Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause • Best Group:...
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Valley of the Jeep Beets (1991) Super Bad (1994) Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987) It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) Fear of a Black Planet...
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album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988. LL Cool J sampled "Scorpio" on his song "Jingling Baby" on his album Walking with a Panther...
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