How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?

Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Appropriately for the only hip-hop group that's been active for 20 years, cutting records and touring during that entire time, Public Enemy has a long memory. Long enough to be self-referential, as the title of their 2006 Paris collaboration Rebirth of a Nation suggested, but 2007's How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? bubbles over with references to their past: the title alone is an elliptical throwback to "Who Sold the Soul" on Fear of a Black Planet, but there are scores of musical nods to their past here, from the heavy metal shred on "Black Is Back" to how "Between Hard and Rock Place" plays like one of the bridges on Fear of a Black Planet, or the It Takes a …  » Read more

Tracks

Disc 1

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		How You Sell Soul to a Souless People Who Sold Their Soul?	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	2:36
		2		Black Is Back	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	2:42
		3		Harder Than You Think	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	4:09
		4		Between Hard and a Rock Place	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	0:59
		5		Sex, Drugs & Violence	Drayton, G Wiz, KRS One, Ridenhour	3:35
		6		Amerikan Gangster	G Wiz, Ridenhour, Smalls	4:03
		7		Can You Hear Me Now	Noble, Ridenhour	3:58
		8		Head Wide Shut	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	1:31
		9		Flavor Man	Drayton	3:44
		10		The Enemy Battle Hymn of the Public	G Wiz, Ridenhour	3:23
		11		Escapism	Barge, Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	4:53
		12		Frankenstar	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	3:23
		13		Col-Leepin	Drayton	3:58
		14		Radiation of a Radiotvmovie Nation	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	1:10
		15		See Something, Say Something	G Wiz, Ridenhour	3:46
		16		Long and Whining Road	Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	4:24
		17		Bridge of Pain	Drayton	3:07
		18		Eve of Destruction	Barri, Sloan	4:15
		19		How You Sell Soul (Time Is God Refrain)	Allen, Drayton, G Wiz, Ridenhour	2:31

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