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- Verified Buyer
Public Enemy and their collaborators continue to inspire and amaze, and contribute to an international movement of consciousness raising. I've been discovering (r)evolutionary rap artists around the world and, time and again, they cite PE as a sort of guiding North star. Public Enemy, Dead Prez and others who bring the real noise have been performing and networking at global hip-hop conferences in places like Caracas and Havana. They've inspired the "Dope Poet Society" in Canada, "K'Naan" from Somalia, and countless groups from Latin America. I don't know much Spanish, but groups like "Zona Marginal" of Colombia (who have received death threats from the paramilitaries for their lyrics), "Actitud Maria Marta" from Argentina, and "Boca Floja" from Mexico have moved me to pick up a Spanish/English dictionary.Let each one teach one, and pass along Public Enemy's latest to those who have been hypnotized by the rap that gets played on the empire's airwaves. Let's also support the rap artists in other parts of the world who share the vision of justice that Public Enemy reignites with each disc.[...]"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground."-Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
