Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987)

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Title: Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Artist: Public Enemy
Genre: Hip-Hop
Released: 1987

Tracks:
1 - You're Gonna Get Yours - 4:04
2 - Sophisticated Bitch - 4:30
3 - Miuzi Weighs a Ton - 5:44
4 - Timebomb - 2:54
5 - Too Much Posse - 2:25
6 - Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man) - 3:48
7 - Public Enemy No. 1 - 4:41
8 - M.P.E. - 3:44
9 - Yo! Bum Rush the Show - 4:25
10 - Raise the Roof - 5:18
11 - Megablast - 2:51
12 - Terminator X Speaks With His Hands - 2:13

Overview:
Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut album of American hip hop group Public Enemy, released in April 1987 on Def Jam Recordings. The group's logo, a silhouette of a black man in a rifle's crosshairs, is debuted on the album's cover. 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. NME magazine named it the best album of the year in its 1987 critics poll. 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. 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.
Music information in first post provided by The AudioDB
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