Fear Of A Black Planet (studio album) by Public Enemy
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Fear Of A Black Planet is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by Public Enemy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Public Enemy is It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back which is ranked number 237 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,074.
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Fear Of A Black Planet track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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85/100  | 11/14/2024 16:44 | davidleewrong | | 81/100 |
90/100 | 09/18/2024 20:45 | NeonOctifish | | 91/100 |
80/100 | 09/16/2024 02:16 |  imacgill | | 80/100 |
85/100 | 08/28/2024 23:17 | matterhornrider | | 82/100 |
90/100 | 08/28/2024 11:39 |  Cardboardfolder | | 87/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.1/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.
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A political hip-hop classic that spoke to its time -- while, sadly remaining timeless.
Message on point, repetitive after a while, but makes you feel like you're on a protest. Production is hit or miss, but I prefer this sample heavy than the raw 80s production on their previous.
Jboy56 02/24/2022 17:56
This album does not sound very good.
Lyrically awesome. Seems to be a voice to empower black Gen-Xers. Production is quite poor by today's standards though, severely diminishing the quality of the album. Would have loved to hear Fear Of A Black Planet if it was produced by Dre, for example.
planetneutral 11/30/2020 00:25
I had to listen to this twice to realize how refreshingly anti-misogynistic it is.
Timestarter 08/31/2020 11:46
Fav. Tracks: Brothers Gonna Work It Out, 911 Is A Joke, Welcome To The Terrordrome, Who Stole The Soul?, Fear Of A Black Planet, Fight The Power.
teague 07/13/2020 20:01
Some of the production choices are a bit iffy, but the messages they purvey are incredibly important, and remain so even today. The personalities on Fear of a Black Planet are strong and attention grabbing.
Public Enemy came out swinging again for there third release its full of The Bomb Squad with Chuck D preaching truth and Flav kicking his own style
Like a bomb ass three legged table, if any individual leg were to break the entire structure would keel over. Its remarkable how Terminator X, Chuck, and Flava flav elevate and uplift one another's talents, each accenting the others perfectly
Some of the best hip-hop right here! Could be shortened a bit, but the vibe persists throughout.
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