| PUBLIC ENEMY He Got Game |
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| Reviews - Sounds like |
| Written by Keith Kirchner |
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For example, the album's first track, "Resurrection," outlines the importance of the group's comeback by saying that PE is engaging in "a battle for your mind like Israel and Palestine" and telling listeners that their return is "good news in some fucking hard-ass times/No more disses/repeated hook lines and choruses." And when Chuck spits out "white man's burden be a black man's dream" in the scorchingly-hot "Go Cat Go," he's bound to send a hip-hop nation of lyrical analysts back to the history books to see what he's so pissed about. The Bomb Squad have had years of influences since the last release, and the result is a new sound for the group which sways from the acid-rock grunge of "Is Your God A Dog" to the excellent, Wu-flavored funk of "Unstoppable," a track that features a remarkably subdued, yet still effective, appearance by KRS-One. Many of the songs here are a lot slower-paced than we are accustomed to hearing from PE, but the slow-burning anger on such songs as "Game Face" and "Politics of the Sneaker Pimps" more than makes up for it. There is no song here that threatens to blast off into the stratosphere like such PE classics as "Night Of The Living Baseheads," "Bring The Noise," "Fight The Power" and "Can't Truss It," and that's the only thing that keeps this offering from exploding. |

