Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back

Ranked #12 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey.
Ranked #48 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Loud, obnoxious, funky, avant-garde, political, uncompromising, hilarious..."
Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics - "...In any context, a revolutionary work..."
"...NATION OF MILLIONS lived up to its hype and then some..."
Ranked #47 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"
5 Stars - Indispensable - "...the greatest rap album of all time, a landmark and classic...."
4 stars out of 5 - "Packed full of loud, obnoxious classics....You really should own this by now."
Included in AP's "10 Essential Political-Revolution Albums"
Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums".
Ranked #6 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...After IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK, rap couldn't just be stupid and boom and yelp--it had to have production values and 'relevance'..."
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Ranked #1 in Vibe's "Top 10 rap albums".
Bloody Essential - "...I hadn't believed it could get harder [than YO! BUM RUSH THE SHOW]. Or better....It was like being beaten over the head in four/four time with a skip..."
"...Responsible for the angriest polemic since The Last Poets....[They] revolutionized the music, using up to 80 backing tracks in the sonic assault....to these ears PE sound like the greatest rock'n'roll band in history."
Ranked #5 in NME's list of The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s - "...[IT TAKES A NATION...] drags punk, rock, and hip-hop screaming towards the end of the century....Definitive..."
Ranked #9 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
10 (out of 10) - "...the greatest hip-hop album ever....this wasn't merely a sonic triumph. This was also where Chuck wrote a fistful of lyrics that promoted him to the position of foremost commentator/documentor of life in the underbelly of the USA...."
Pitchfork (Website) - "The early Public Enemy masterpieces remain unique and inimitable now, relics of a world irreparably changed though in a few notable ways, very much the same."