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While reading a Canadian magazine article about their first album which was titled "It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back" Chuck D and Hank Shocklee realised the power of the title and used it for their ground-breaking second album. You're blind baby, you're blind from the facts of who you are coz you're watching that garbage". At the begining of Flav's solo track, 'Cold Lampin With Flavor', there is a quote 'No more music by the suckers' Flav then goes on to say ' Yo! man what does he mean by suckers man? Yo, he only trying to put a black eye in the gang. While this was funny for me all those years ago listening to the album, it now apears that there was quite an interestind story behind it.

Album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Rebel Without a Pause Lyrics. rebel in his own mind Supporter of my rhyme Designed to scatter a line of suckers who claim I do crime They on my time ticket. Yo, Chuck-they think we takin' shorts! Show 'em this is cold medina.

The album charted for 49 weeks on the US Billboard 200, peaking at number 42. By August 1989, it was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of one million copies in the United States. The album was very well received by music critics, who hailed it for its production techniques and the socially and politically charged lyricism of lead MC Chuck D. It also appeared on many publications’ year-end top album lists for 1988 and was the runaway choice as the best album of 1988 in The Village Voice‘s Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, a poll. In 2003, the album was ranked number 48 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the highest ranking of all the Hip Hop albums on the list, and the only one acknowledged in the top hundred.

Nation found a way to expound on the explosive soundscapes of the debut without exhausting listeners or cluttering the mix. Chuck, Sadler, and the Shocklee brothers’ production as the Bomb Squad was as thick as its source material was diverse; it was rap, soul, rock, funk and musique concrète all at once. Critics warmed to Public Enemy in the wake of It Takes a Nation of Millions but remained suspicious of their political affiliations. If Farrakhan’s a prophet my dick’s bigger than Don Howland’s, Village Voice scribe Robert Christgau quipped in a year-end roundup, but that doesn’t make Nation of Millions anything less than the bravest and most righteous experimental pop of the decade. Others would be less warm as Professor Griff’s incendiary ethics began to strike sour notes.

When asked about the goal of the album, Public Enemy lead rapper Chuck D said, Our sole intention was to destroy music. Hank Shocklee is creator of Public Enemy’s production team, known as the Bomb Squad. Chuck D’s lyrics are pointed and rebellious, calling out political corruption and social injustices that still resonate 30 years later. As Chuck D puts it, That’s my obligation and duty, to use the medium that reaches out to the people to bring a certain point or issue that’s tucked to the back up for discussion.

The album was supposed to be released in late 1989, but was pushed back to April 1990. It was the most successful of any of their albums and, in 2005, was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. It included the singles "Welcome To The Terrordome", "911 Is a Joke", which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community, and "Fight the Power". Fight the Power" is regarded as one of the most popular and influential songs in hip hop history  . "Public Enemy Talks 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' on Its 30th Anniversary". Retrieved December 12, 2018.