Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Occupation
- Chuck D: Rapper
- Flavor Flav: Rapper
- Terminator X: DJ
Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut album of American hip- hop group Public Enemy, released on January 26, 1987 by Def Jam Recordings in the United States. The logo of the band, the silhouette of a black man in the crosshairs of a rifle, first appeared on the album cover. Yo! Bum Rush the Show is distinguished by the sample -heavy sound of the production team The Bomb Squad.
The album reached # 125 on the Billboard 200 and number 28 of the top R & B / Hip- Hop Albums. The magazine NME chose it in his critics list the best album of the year. Cheo H. Coker from the music magazine Vibe called the album next to Licensed to Ill (1986 ) by the Beastie Boys and Radio ( 1985) by LL Cool J as one of the three most influential albums in the history of hip- hop. In 1998, the music magazine The Source, the album as one of the 100 best rap albums. The Rolling Stone it led in 2003 to 497 square its list of the 500 best albums of all time.
Music and lyrics
Jon Pareles of The New York Times noted in his review that the band presents itself as a " mixture of black anger and resistance " and that they want to be the voice of a community, but not a " band of bullies ." On the album, the sample -heavy production of The Bomb Squad was first heard, which was formative for the following albums the band. Joe Brown of the Washington Post described the music as " a more serious form of inner-city aggression " compared to Licensed to Ill by the under contract also at Def Jam Beastie Boys. For music style Brown wrote:
" Public Enemy 's mean and minimalist rap is marked by an absolute absence of melody -. Scary the sound is just a throbbing pulse, hard drums and a designed- to- irritate electronic whine, like a dentist's drill or a persistent mosquito "
"Public Enemy's nastier and minimalist rap is characterized by the absence of any melody - the scary sound is a throbbing pulse, hard drums and an irritating electronic whine like a dentist's drill or an annoying mosquito. "
The sound of the album is highlighted by the scratching of DJ Terminator X. In the texts the belt against the white supremacist agitation and denounces a lack of self- awareness of blacks in the U.S.. This black nationalism brought the band a lot of criticism, but this worked in combination with the militant outfit of musicians at the same time of sale. Thus it could be disposed of within one year already 275,000 copies of the album.
Reviews
The Q magazine awarded 4 stars ( "excellent" ) and called the album " an overwhelming beginning ... only the first and in retrospect still tentative step in a remarkable journey ... a hard, droning extension of the basic drum'n'scratch scheme of Def Jam that worked so well with LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. "the Melody Maker compared the intensity of the album with it, " as if you were hit by a meteorite. " The NME wrote: " Yo! Bum Rush The Show made known a hip- hop band that began to sparkle in secret, with sparse beats like no other, and with the coolest vocal duo of all time ... with views, one from a ' public enemy number one ' expected. Brilliant .... " Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic For superimposed by the production of Rick Rubin rock music elements, the hip-hop elements, and both the Bomb Squad and Chuck D. could not be sufficiently exhibited.
Title list
The following list contains some of the titles in the songs of Yo! Bum Rush the Show samples used. However, the samples shown are not exhaustive.