Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age (EXPLICIT) (CD)

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• Release Date: May 17, 1994
• Label: Def Jam (USA)
• UPC: 731452336224
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106273462
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #84769 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2473 in Rap & Hip Hop (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop Bestsellers)
• #267 in East Coast Rap (See Top 100 East Coast Rap Bestsellers)

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Q (9/94, p.106) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Fact is, the lay off has just made Public Enemy sound fresh again...because they've regained the wicked combination of sonic disturbance and loose, rabblerousing funk that drove classic jams like 911 is A Joke..."
Alternative Press (9/94, pp.80-81) - "...Yeah, we've heard it before but Chuck can make waves even when he's treading water...MESS AGE may be PE's most consistently enjoyable disc..."
Vibe (8/94, p.105) - "...a tour de force of densely constructed music and verbiage. Snippets of Stax-Volt grooves, reggae, soul, and metal bop and weave over gut-punching bass lines and wicked drumming while front man Chuck D lets fly with...pronouncements, warnings, and accusations..."
Melody Maker (8/20/94, p.35) - Recommended - "...This LP isn't just a stunning return to form for Public Enemy, it's perhaps the most powerful horrified answer to what you are doing to black culture yet..."
NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #20 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'
NME (Magazine) (8/27/94, p.39) - "...only slightly mellower and less chaotic than the past...no-one sounds like this..."

Public Enemy includes: Flavor Flav (rap vocals, keyboards, bass); Chuck D. (rap vocals); Terminator X (scratches); The Security Of The First World, The Interrogators.

Additional personnel: Tom Costello, Paul Reisch (various instruments); Gerry Comito (guitar); Darryl Dixon, David Watson, Bill Mobley (horns); Kerwin "Sleek" Young (bass); Nathaniel Townsley III (drums); John B. Smooth (congas); Keith Shocklee (programming, background vocals); Kamron, Kevin Boone (scratches); Tet, Norma Jean Wright, Paulette McWilliams, Bemshi, Carl DeHaney, The Punk Barbarians, Grandell Thompson, Jamel Bazemore, Sean Chaplin, Victor Brownlee, Harry Allen, Errol Nazareth, Jesse Smith, Andre Guilty, Mike Williams, Akilah Watkins, Raymond Mattry, Sheila Cabllero, Jeanette Harrod, Prince Yellordy, Jean Victor (background vocals).

Producers: Gary G-Wiz, Carl Ryder, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, Flavor Flav.

Engineers include: Nick Sansano, Gerry Comito, Jimmy O'Neil.

Includes liner notes by Chuck D.

MUSE SICK N HOUR MESS AGE arrives at hip-hop's doorstep during a very fragile period in that music's relatively short existence. While its commercial pull seems to be at an all-time high, scrutiny of rap's social content--especially during this, the genre's post-gangsta period--is too. And without a new style to push it through G-Funk's lyrical (and philosophical) wasteland, rap's new school seems hopelessly stuck in a downward spiral of "ho's," "blunts" and "GATTs."

As the title of the album clearly suggests, Public Enemy is quite aware of the situation. Yet rather than pick at these divisive wounds, lyricist/rapper Chuck D. seems more interested in wading through hip-hop's less charted territories. Sure, he still won't pass up a chance to espouse his opinion on gangsta-isms--particularly on "Give It Up," the album's ultra-catchy first single--but he seems far more crisp when kicking an eco-educational rap like "Bedlam 13:13," or backing Flavor Flav with JB-style gruff-voiced call-outs on "What Kind Of Power We Got?" On these and other tracks Chuck commands a lead-by-example urgency in his rhymes, something few of today's rappers are capable of.

Such lyrical and stylistic innovations--augmenting the Bomb Squad and Gary G-Wiz production with live instrumentation is a masterstroke that updates the classic PE sound--should be enough to give MUSE SICK a purposeful existence. Yet, the album's most important new contribution to today's hip-hop just might be medicinal: inferring the music with post-gangsta objectives.

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