#176 Public Enemy, 'Fear of a Black Planet' (1990)

This album is a collage of sounds. A complete mix of samples, that I couldn’t even begin to break them all down. One of the mostly tightly produced Hip Hop records that I’ve ever heard. To give you an idea, the first track proper, ‘Brothers Gonna Work It Out’ jumps from Prince’s ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ to George Clinton’s ‘Atomic Dog,’ with James Brown’s vocals injected in randomly and interspersed throughout the song, alongside Otis Redding, Sly and the Family Stone and even previous Public Enemy tracks. This doesn’t even scratch the surface.