Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits

Artist	Public Enemy
Format	CD
Genre	Rap
Label Name	Def Jam
Producer	Cerwin Depper, J.B.L., Stuart Robertz, Carl Ryder, Keith Shocklee, Hank Shocklee, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, D.R. Period, Bill Stephney, Gary G Wiz, Imperial Grand Ministers Of Funk
Release Date	2005 08 02
Song List	1: You're Gonna Get Yours (4:05) 2: Public Enemy No. 1 (4:41) 3: Rebel Without a Pause (4:18) 4: Bring the Noise (3:47) 5: Don't Believe the Hype (5:19) 6: Prophets of Rage (3:20) 7: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos [Single Edit] (3:43) 8: Fight the Power (4:36) 9: Welcome to the Terrordome (5:26) 10: 911 Is a Joke (3:17) 11: Brothers Gonna Work It Out (5:08) 12: Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man [Clean Edit] (2:47) 13: Can't Truss It (4:52) 14: Shut Em Down (4:19) 15: By the Time I Get to Arizona (4:00) 16: Hazy Shade of Criminal (4:50) 17: Give It Up (4:43) 18: He Got Game [Radio Edit] (4:45)
Style.Categories	Golden Age, Political Rap, Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap, Hip-Hop

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Apart from their 2001 installment in Universal's ongoing 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series, Public Enemy had not been given a career compilation prior to 2005's Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits. The 2001 comp overlooked such major cuts as "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," plus it was sequenced in a non-chronological order. Power to the People rights those two wrongs by including all of PE's major songs from 1987-1998 -- which doesn't mean it's all their best music, of course -- presented in a chronological fashion, beginning with "You're Gonna Get Yours" and ending with "He Got Game." As such, it provides not only a useful summary of their groundbreaking work, it's also a bracing, exciting listen in its own right. Of course, each individual Public Enemy release recorded during these ten years is worth hearing -- especially 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and 1990's Fear of a Black Planet, which are two of the great works of art of the 20th century -- but for those who want a quick introduction to the greatest hip-hop group of all time, this fits the bill perfectly. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide