How the Bomb Squad Made Public Enemy Sound Like War
Before rap got polished, Public Enemy and their production team the Bomb Squad built the densest, angriest, most overwhelming sound of the Golden Age. This is how they weaponized noise.
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Public Enemy: 9 Reasons They Changed Hip Hop Forever
In 1988, the FBI’s Assistant Director, Milt Ahlerich, sent a letter to N.W.A.’s record label complaining about a song. The letter is famous — every rap fan knows about it. What gets forgotten is that the rap group whose actual catalog scared federal agents the most was Public Enemy, and Chuck D had been telling…
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Walk This Way: How Run-DMC and Aerosmith Changed Music Forever
On a humid August night in 1973, a teenage DJ named Clive Campbell looped a drum break in a Bronx rec room — and accidentally invented a sound that would swallow the planet.
