Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back creativity and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary

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Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back creativity and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversaryChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand