Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits

Artist	Public Enemy
Producer	Cerwin Depper, J.B.L., Stuart Robertz, Carl Ryder, Keith Shocklee, Hank Shocklee, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, D.R. Period, Bill Stephney, Gary G Wiz, Imperial Grand Ministers Of Funk
Label Name	Def Jam
Song List	1: You're Gonna Get Yours (4:05) 2: Public Enemy No. 1 (4:41) 3: Rebel Without a Pause (4:18) 4: Bring the Noise (3:47) 5: Don't Believe the Hype (5:19) 6: Prophets of Rage (3:20) 7: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos [Single Edit] (3:43) 8: Fight the Power (4:36) 9: Welcome to the Terrordome (5:26) 10: 911 Is a Joke (3:17) 11: Brothers Gonna Work It Out (5:08) 12: Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man [Clean Edit] (2:47) 13: Can't Truss It (4:52) 14: Shut Em Down (4:19) 15: By the Time I Get to Arizona (4:00) 16: Hazy Shade of Criminal (4:50) 17: Give It Up (4:43) 18: He Got Game [Radio Edit] (4:45)
Format	CD
Release Date	2005 08 02
Genre	Rap
Style.Categories	Golden Age, Political Rap, Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap, Hip-Hop

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Apart from their 2001 installment in Universal's ongoing 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series, Public Enemy had not been given a career compilation prior to 2005's Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits. The 2001 comp overlooked such major cuts as "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," plus it was sequenced in a non-chronological order. Power to the People rights those two wrongs by including all of PE's major songs from 1987-1998 -- which doesn't mean it's all their best music, of course -- presented in a chronological fashion, beginning with "You're Gonna Get Yours" and ending with "He Got Game." As such, it provides not only a useful summary of their groundbreaking work, it's also a bracing, exciting listen in its own right. Of course, each individual Public Enemy release recorded during these ten years is worth hearing -- especially 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and 1990's Fear of a Black Planet, which are two of the great works of art of the 20th century -- but for those who want a quick introduction to the greatest hip-hop group of all time, this fits the bill perfectly. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide