Yo! Bum rush the show

chronology
Yo! Bum rush the show
Public Enemy studio album
Publication ; (s)	January 26, 1987
Label (s)	Def Jam / Columbia
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	12
running time	46:44
occupation	Chuck D : rapper ; Flavor Flav : rapper; Terminator X : DJ ;
production	Rick Rubin
Studio (s)	Spectrum City Studios

Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut album by the American hip-hop band Public Enemy , released on January 26, 1987 by Def Jam Recordings in the USA. The band's logo, the silhouette of a black man in the crosshairs of a gun, first appeared on the album cover . Yo! Bum Rush the Show is characterized by the sample-heavy sound of the producer team The Bomb Squad .

The album peaked at number 125 on the Billboard 200 and number 28 on the Top R&B / Hip-Hop Albums . NME magazine voted it the best album of the year in its list of critics. Cheo H. Coker from music magazine Vibe named the album as one of the three most influential albums in hip-hop history, along with Licensed to Ill (1986) by the Beastie Boys and Radio (1985) by LL Cool J. In 1998, the music magazine The Source listed the album as one of the 100 best rap albums. The Rolling Stone it led in 2003 at number 497 of its list of the 500 best albums of all time .

Music and lyrics

Jon Pareles of the New York Times noted in his review that the band presented themselves as "a mixture of black anger and resistance" and that they wanted to be the voice of a community rather than a "group of mouth heroes". On the album the sample-heavy production of The Bomb Squad was heard for the first time, which was formative for the following albums of the band. Washington Post's Joe Brown described the music as "a more serious form of inner-city aggression" compared to Licensed to Ill by Def Jam's Beastie Boys. Brown wrote:

"Public Enemy's mean and minimalist rap is marked by an absolute absence of melody - the scary sound is just a throbbing pulse, hard drums and a designed-to-irritate electronic whine, like a dentist's drill or a persistent mosquito."

"Public Enemy's nasty and minimalist rap is characterized by the absence of any melody - the frightening sound is a pounding pulse, hard drums and an irritating electronic whine like a dentist's drill or an annoying mosquito."

The sound of the album is underlined by the scratching of DJ Terminator X . In the lyrics, the band agitates against the supremacy of the white race and denounces a lack of self-confidence among blacks in the USA. This black nationalism brought the band a lot of criticism, but in combination with the militant outfit of the musicians it also had a sales-promoting effect. 275,000 copies of the album have already been sold within a year.

Reviews

The Q magazine awarded 4 stars ( "excellent") and called the album "an overwhelming start ... only the first and in retrospect still tentative step in a remarkable journey ... a hard, booming expansion of basic drum'n'scratch scheme of Def Jam that worked so well for LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. ” Melody Maker compared the album's intensity to“ like being hit by a meteorite ”. The NME wrote: “Yo! Bum Rush The Show introduced a hip-hop band that began to sparkle in secret, with sparse beats like no other, and the coolest vocal duo of all time ... with views one would expect from a 'Public Enemy Number 1' expected. … Brilliant. ”For Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic , the production of Rick Rubin superimposes the rock music elements on the hip-hop elements, and both the Bomb Squad and Chuck D. have not yet been able to develop sufficiently.

Track list

The following track list contains some of the songs featured in the Yo! Bum Rush the Show used samples . However, the samples given are not complete.

No.	Surname	Songwriting	Length (min)	Samples used
1.	You're gonna get yours	Chuck D, Hank Shocklee	4:04	Super Sporm by Captain Skyy Getting it On by Dennis Coffey
2.	Sophisticated Bitch (feat. Vernon Reid by Living Color )	D., William Drayton, Flavor Flav, Shocklee	4:30	Friends by Whodini Groove Line by Heatwave
3.	Miuzi Weighs a Ton	D., Shocklee	5:44	Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin Different Strokes by Syl Johnson Christmas Rappin ' by Kurtis Blow Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss
4th	Timebomb	D., Shocklee	2:54	Just Kissed My Baby from The Meters
5.	Too Much Posse	D., Drayton, Flav, Shocklee	2:25
6th	Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man)	D., Shocklee	3:48	Grip It by Trouble Funk Blow Your Head by The JB's Here We Go (Live) by Run-DMC
7th	Public Enemy No. 1	D., Shocklee	4:41	AJ Scratch from Kurtis Blow Feel the Heartbeat from Treacherous Three Blow Your Head by Fred Wesley and The JB's
8th.	MPE	D., Drayton, Flav, Shocklee	3:44
9.	Yo! Bum rush the show	D., Drayton, Shocklee	4:25	Shack Up from Banbarra
10.	Raise the roof	D., Eric Sadler, Shocklee	5:18	Assembly Line by The Commodores Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie by Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five
11.	Megablast	D., Drayton, Flav, Shocklee	2:51	All We Need is Another Chance by The Escorts
12.	Terminator X Speaks With His Hands	D, Drayton, Sadler, Shocklee	2:13	Just Kissed My Baby from The Meters

literature

Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard: The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition. Simon and Schuster, 2004, ISBN 0-7432-0169-8 .

Web links

Yo! Bum Rush the Show on Allmusic (English)
Yo! Bum Rush the Show at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jon Pareles: Recordings View; Hip-Hop's Prophets of Rage Make Noise Again. The New York Times, September 29, 1991, accessed February 14, 2010 .
^ Albums of the Year Critic Poll. rocklistmusic.co.uk, accessed February 14, 2010 .
^ Cheo H. Coker: What a Rush . In: Vibe Magazine . December 1995, p. 89 .
↑ 497) Yo! Bum rush the show. Rolling Stone, November 1, 2003, archived from the original on March 17, 2010 ; accessed on April 16, 2014 (English).
↑ Hip-Hop's Greatest Year: Fifteen Albums That Made Rap Explode. Rolling Stone, February 12, 2008, accessed February 14, 2010 .
↑ ^a ^b Joe Brown: A Bestiary of Beastly Boys. The Washington Post, April 3, 1987, accessed February 14, 2010 .
^ Mark Jenkins: The New Rap Revolution, Hop to Hype; LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa & Public Enemy, Evolving. In: The Washington Post. July 1, 1987, accessed February 14, 2010 .
↑ Dieter Baacke: Youth and youth cultures: representation and interpretation . Juventa, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7799-0426-7 , pp. 113 .
↑ Marlynn Snyder: Def Jam 10th Anniversary: Artists Heard 'Round the World . In: Billboard Magazine . November 4, 1995, p. 34 .
↑ Review of Yo! Bum rush the show . In: Q Magazine . No. 9/95 , p. 132 .
↑ Review of Yo! Bum rush the show . In: Melody Maker . July 22, 1995, p. 35 .
↑ Review of Yo! Bum rush the show . In: NME . July 15, 1995, p. 47 .

[pareles2-1] Jon Pareles: Recordings View; Hip-Hop's Prophets of Rage Make Noise Again. The New York Times, September 29, 1991, accessed February 14, 2010 .

[2] Albums of the Year Critic Poll. rocklistmusic.co.uk, accessed February 14, 2010 .

[Coker-3] Cheo H. Coker: What a Rush . In: Vibe Magazine . December 1995, p. 89 .

[4] 497) Yo! Bum rush the show. Rolling Stone, November 1, 2003, archived from the original on March 17, 2010 ; accessed on April 16, 2014 (English).

[5] Hip-Hop's Greatest Year: Fifteen Albums That Made Rap Explode. Rolling Stone, February 12, 2008, accessed February 14, 2010 .

[Brown-6] Joe Brown: A Bestiary of Beastly Boys. The Washington Post, April 3, 1987, accessed February 14, 2010 .

[Jenkins-7] Mark Jenkins: The New Rap Revolution, Hop to Hype; LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa & Public Enemy, Evolving. In: The Washington Post. July 1, 1987, accessed February 14, 2010 .

[8] Dieter Baacke: Youth and youth cultures: representation and interpretation . Juventa, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7799-0426-7 , pp. 113 .

[9] Marlynn Snyder: Def Jam 10th Anniversary: Artists Heard 'Round the World . In: Billboard Magazine . November 4, 1995, p. 34 .

[10] Review of Yo! Bum rush the show . In: Q Magazine . No. 9/95 , p. 132 .

[11] Review of Yo! Bum rush the show . In: Melody Maker . July 22, 1995, p. 35 .

[12] Review of Yo! Bum rush the show . In: NME . July 15, 1995, p. 47 .