POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND THE BEATS
Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits

In the late 80s, the revolution wasn't televised, it was on record--and those records were made by Public Enemy. When it comes to social and political consciousness, Public Enemy was the most influential and controversial rap group of the time--and those recordings remain rap music's most important ever made. Now the most extensive gathering of its revolutionary best has been compiled on POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND THE BEATS: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits (Universal/Def Jam), released 1 August, 2005.

Produced in association with Chuck D, leader and co-founder of Public Enemy, POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND THE BEATS: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits features 18 selections, each digitally remastered, ranging from 1987's "Public Enemy No. 1" to 1998's "He Got Game." Spanning each of the group's first six albums, and an insightful essay by Harry Allen, POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND THE BEATS: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits is the definitive retrospective of Public Enemy's original groundbreaking recordings.

Chuck D's serious intensity and Flavor Flav's comic relief debuted on the fledgling Def Jam label founded by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons with 1987's Yo! Bum Rush The Show and its "Public Enemy No. 1." But it was the group's next album, the US platinum, #1 R&B It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988), which dropped the bomb.
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