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Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
Coming two years after the ground-breaking It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy's third album should have been a victory lap. But "Welcome to the Terrordome" ignited charges of anti-Semitism. The lyrical flap couldn't overwhelm PE's widescreen vision of hip-hop, which included the righteous noise of "Fight the Power," the uplifting sentiment of "Brothers Gonna Work It Out," the chiding soul of "Pollywanacraka" and the agit-funk of "911 is a Joke."
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