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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelPhantom Import Distribution
UPC5413356450422
eBay Product ID (ePID)5050204262
Product Key Features
Release Year1999
FormatCD
GenreR&B & Soul
Run Time51 Mins 57 Seconds
ArtistPublic Enemy, Kyle Jason
Release TitleThere's a Poison Goin on
Additional Product Features
DistributionPhantom Import Distributi
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Number of Discs1
ReviewsRolling Stone (8/5/99, p.64) - 3 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...there is some jigginess on this record....the emphasis is on sparser, more spacious mixes- less claustrophobic and dizzying...but still gripping..." Alternative Press (11/99, p.119) - 4 out of 5 - "...the still-strident PE are back....best as an eyes-closed, headphones on high-volume experience. It takes extremely seriously the idea that hip hop should be consciousness-altering music..." The Wire (8/99, p.55) - "...Public Enemy are back and this time it's personal....Everyone...finds themselves caught in Chuck's rhetorical crosshairs and no one survives intact....this is the loudest, noisest Public Enemy album in nine years..." Muzik (8/99, p.84) - 5 stars (out of 5) - "...defiant, provocative and reassuringly abrasive music....this album is a treat....POISON is vintage PE, all the more welcome at a time when there had seemed to be no one left who was prepared to make rational, thoughtful, incisive hip-hop."
Additional informationThis reissue contains 5 bonus tracks. Public Enemy: Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff. Additional personnel: Kyle Jason (vocals). Recorded in 1999. Includes liner notes by Chuck D. After more than a decade as one of hip-hop's most pioneering and successful rap acts, Public Enemy forged new ground once again in the music business with 1999's THERE'S A POISON GOIN' ON. The album was one of the first feature releases available exclusively on the internet and is PE's loudest, most forceful record in years. Though the album does contain the radio-friendly "Do You Wanna Go Our Way," Public Enemy proves that it hasn't lost its vitriol with tracks like "Crash," "Last Mass of the Caballeros," and "LSD." Flavor-Flav is back in full jokster mode on such tracks as "41:19" and "What What." And of course, what's a PE album without controversy? "Swindler's Lust," in which Chuck D criticizes greed-driven record companies, has drawn considerable fire. For what it's worth, Chuck D and Public Enemy are as relevant today as they were when they first appeared on the hip-hop scene.