Public Enemy — Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age

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A long-misunderstood entry in Public Enemy’s decades-spanning catalogue, <i>Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age</i> captures the band’s brilliant hybridisation of organic instruments and hip-hop production. The result? A groove machine that rages like a raised fist, but funks like the Mothership. Chuck D and Flavor Flav are at their confrontational best on the back-to-back shot of “What Side You On?” and “Bedlam 13:13” (“Good enough to know no indo/Threw it out the window along with the Super Nintendo”). But the real stars are the gang vocals—equal parts Panther party and house party—and the propulsive, heavy-footed live drums of Nathaniel Townsley III. “Hitler Day”, a scathing takedown of the Columbus holiday, is a rap-rock rager that emerged right at the dawn of nu metal, while “Give It Up”—built off a shimmering piece of 1960s Stax soul—became the band’s first and only Top 40 pop hit. But the real pleasure of <i>Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age</i> is hearing Public Enemy getting loose and almost <i>jammy</i> at times—this is the album that finds the hardest working punk band in hip-hop getting closer to the funk breaks they once sampled. “What Kind of Power We Got?” is a long and strong hip-hop remake of James Brown’s “Soul Power”, with Chuck D playing Bobby Byrd to the always irrepressible Flavor Flav. And “Live and Undrugged, Pt. 1 & 2” takes the form of one of Brown’s own 45s: The first three-and-half minutes consist of hard rhyming before the track turns into a dizzying swarm of ad-libs, vamps and Terminator X scratch flurries. The sounds on <i>Mess Age</i> predicted the success of “alternative hip-hop” groups like the Fugees and the Black Eyed Peas. And its bold anti-gangsta-rap stance—as evidence by songs like “So Whatcha Gone Do Now?”—would later be picked up by true-school-minded underground rappers of the late 1990s. <i>Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age</i> was panned in its day by music critics expecting more scattergun samples and hard-nosed fury, but time has revealed what the P.E. faithful have known all along: The funkiest Public Enemy record is a slept-on classic.

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  1. Whole Lotta Love Goin On In the Middle of Hell 3:11
  2. Theatrical Parts 0:28
  3. Give It Up 4:31
  4. What Side You On? 4:07
  5. Bedlam 13:13 4:06
  6. Stop In the Name... 1:21
  7. What Kind Of Power We Got? 5:30
  8. So Whatcha Gone Do Now? 4:41
  9. White Heaven/Black Hell 1:06
  10. Race Against Time 3:20
  11. They Used To Call It Dope 0:29
  12. Aintnuttin Buttersong 4:23
  13. Live and Undrugged, Pt. 1 & 2 5:54
  14. Thin Line Between Law & Rape 4:45
  15. I Ain't Mad At All 3:24
  16. Death of a Carjacka 2:00
  17. I Stand Accused 3:56
  18. Godd Complexx 3:40
  19. Hitler Day 4:27
  20. Harry Allen's Interactive Super Highway Phone Call To Chuck D 2:52
  21. Living In a Zoo 3:38