In the summer of 1988, weeks before the release of their sophomore album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy put out the LP’s second promotional single “Don’t Believe the Hype.” Being the provocative, political duo that they were, evident with songs like “Fight the Power,” Chuck D and Flavor […]
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