Yo! Bum Rush the Show

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Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Studio album by Public Enemy
Released February 10, 1987
Recorded 1986
Spectrum City Studios
(Hempstead, New York)
Genre Hip hop,[1] political hip hop, East Coast hip hop,[1] hardcore hip hop [1]
Length 46:44
Label Def Jam, Columbia
Producer Rick Rubin (exec.), Bill Stephney, The Bomb Squad
Public Enemy chronology
Yo! Bum Rush the Show
(1987)		 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
(1988)
Singles from Yo! Bum Rush the Show[2]
  1. "Public Enemy No. 1 (Public Enemy song)"
    Released: March 1987
  2. "You're Gonna Get Yours"
    Released: May 1987

Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut studio album of American hip hop group Public Enemy. The album was released on February 10, 1987 under Def Jam Recordings.[2] The group's logo, a silhouette of a black man in a rifle's crosshairs, debuted on the album's cover.[3] Yo! Bum Rush the Show features a sample-heavy sound by production team The Bomb Squad.

The album peaked at number 125 on the U.S. Billboard Top LPs chart and at number 28 on the Top Black Albums chart.[4] NME magazine named it the best album of the year in its 1987 critics poll.[5] Along with the Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill (1986) and LL Cool J's Radio (1985), music writer Cheo H. Coker has cited Yo! Bum Rush the Show as one of three of the most influential albums in hip hop history.[6] In 1998, it was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. In 2003, the album was ranked number 497 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[7]

Composition

According to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, "From its first album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show in 1987, the group marketed itself as a distillation of black anger and resistance. It set out to be the voice of a community, not just one more posse of boasters".[3] Yo! Bum Rush the Show debuts The Bomb Squad's sample-heavy production style, which is prominent on the group's following work.[8] Joe Brown of The Washington Post described the album's music as "a more serious brand of inner-city aggression", in comparison to Licensed to Ill (1986) by Def Jam label-mates the Beastie Boys.[9] On its musical style, Brown wrote "Public Enemy's mean and minimalist rap is marked by an absolute absence of melody - the scary sound is just a throbbing pulse, hard drums and a designed-to-irritate electronic whine, like a dentist's drill or a persistent mosquito".[9] The album's sound is accented by the scratching of DJ Terminator X.[10] Chicago Tribune writer Daniel Brogan described Public Enemy's style on the album as "raw and confrontational", writing that the group "doesn't aim to -- or have a chance at -- crossing over".[11]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[12]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[13]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[14]
NME9/10[15]
Q[16]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[17]
Sputnikmusic5/5[18]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You're Gonna Get Yours"  Chuck D, Hank Shocklee4:04
2."Sophisticated Bitch"  Chuck D, Flav, Shocklee4:30
3."Miuzi Weighs a Ton"  Chuck D, Shocklee5:44
4."Timebomb"  Chuck D, Shocklee2:54
5."Too Much Posse"  Chuck D, Flav, Shocklee2:25
6."Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man)"  Chuck D, Shocklee3:48
7."Public Enemy No. 1"  Chuck D, Shocklee4:41
8."M.P.E."  Chuck D, Drayton, Flav, Shocklee3:07
9."Yo! Bum Rush the Show"  Chuck D, Flav, Shocklee4:25
10."Raise the Roof"  Chuck D, Eric Sadler, Shocklee5:18
11."Megablast"  Chuck D, Flav, Shocklee2:51
12."Terminator X Speaks with His Hands"  Chuck D, Flav, Sadler, Shocklee2:13
Total length:50:48

Personnel

  • Johnny "Juice" Rosado - rhythm scratch
  • Rick Rubin - executive producer
  • Bill Stephney - producer
  • Carl Ryder (Chuck D) - co-producer
  • Hank Shocklee - co-producer
  • Glen E. Friedman - photography
  • Bill Stephney - mixing
  • Steve Ett - mixing
  • Hank Shocklee - mixing
  • Rick Rubin - mixing

Sample credits

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The following lists some of the songs and sounds sampled on Yo! Bum Rush the Show.[19]

You're Gonna Get Yours

Sophisticated Bitch

Miuzi Weighs a Ton

Timebomb

Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man)

Public Enemy No. 1

Yo! Bum Rush the Show

  • "Shack Up" by Banbarra

Raise the Roof

Megablast

  • "All We Need is Another Chance" by The Escorts

Terminator X Speaks with His Hands

  • "Just Kissed My Baby" by The Meters

Charts

Chart (1987–88) Peak
position[4]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 125
U.S. Billboard Top Black Albums 28

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 http://www.allmusic.com/album/yo%21-bum-rush-the-show-mw0000194784
  2. 1 2 Strong (2004), p. 1226.
  3. 1 2 Pareles, Jon. Review: Apocalypse 91... the Enemy Strikes Black. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2009-12-06.
  4. 1 2 Billboard Albums: Revolverlution. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-01-08.
  5. ↑ Staff. Albums of the Year Critic Poll. NME. Retrieved on 2009-12-06.
  6. ↑ Coker, Cheo H. "What a Rush". Vibe: 86–90. December 1995.
  7. ↑ Staff. RS500: 497) Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2009-12-06.
  8. ↑ Columnist. Hip-Hop's Greatest Year: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2009-12-06.
  9. 1 2 Brown, Joe. "A Bestiary of Beastly Boys". The Washington Post: n.15. April 3, 1987.
  10. ↑ Jenkins, Mark. "Review: Yo! Bum Rush the Show". The Washington Post: d.07. July 1, 1987.
  11. ↑ Brogan, Daniel. "Review: Yo! Bum Rush the Show". Chicago Tribune: 48. April 3, 1987.
  12. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Yo! Bum Rush the Show – Public Enemy". AllMusic. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
  13. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Public Enemy". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 067973015X. Lay summary.
  14. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  15. ↑ "Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush the Show". NME: 47. July 15, 1995.
  16. ↑ "Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush the Show". Q (108): 132. September 1995.
  17. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 661–662. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  18. ↑ Hartwig, Andrew (January 16, 2005). "Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush the Show". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
  19. ↑ "Public Enemy on WhoSampled". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2015-11-03.

References

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