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How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
Another Public Enemy album is always good news for hip-hop fans, and How You Sell... carries the torch. Other than a few forgettable tracks pulled from a Flavor Flav solo record, highlights abound here. The rockin' "Black Is Back" and the horn-heavy "Harder Than You Think" serve heavy helpings of uplift mojo. "Sex, Drugs & Violence" features a chorus of kids and peerless verses from KRS-One. "Long and Whining Road," the album's most moving track, sees Chuck D's lyrics leaning heavily on Bob Dylan song titles and one-off references to U2, Snoop Dogg, Tom Petty, Beastie Boys, and more. Dramatic production touches include the muted metal riff of "Frankenstar" and orchestral flavors like chimes ("Amerikan Gangster") and vibraphone ("Bridge of Pain"). As always, though, the music is the message, and where this album is so musically eclectic as to court identity crisis, in the end the instrumental elasticity only mirrors Chuck D's vast grasp of the continuum of social ills that mainstream hip-hop long since gave up battling in favor of greed, fame, provincialism, or all of the above. So in answer to the indulgent question of this album's title, maybe--just maybe--this is how we do it. --Jason Kirk
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Tracks| 1 | How You Sell Soul to a Souless People Who Sold Their Soul? | | 2 | Black Is Back | | 3 | Harder Than You Think | | 4 | Between Hard and a Rock Place | | 5 | Sex, Drugs & Violence | | 6 | Amerikan Gangster | | 7 | Can You Hear Me Now | | 8 | Head Wide Shut | | 9 | Flavor Man | | 10 | Enemy Battle Hymn of the Public | | 11 | Escapism | | 12 | Frankenstar | | 13 | Col-Leepin | | 14 | Radiation of a Radiotvmovie Nation | | 15 | See Something, Say Something | | 16 | Long and Whining Road | | 17 | Bridge of Pain | | 18 | Eve of Destruction | | 19 | How You Sell Soul (Time Is God Refrain) | | 20 | Where There's Smoke... [DVD] | | 21 | PE20 Tour58: Power Energy, Planet Earth, Public Enemy [DVD] | | 22 | Live @ BB King's [DVD] | | 23 | [Bonus Material] [DVD] |
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