Album Info

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? (Audio Version)

Hip-Hop/Rap - 2007

Public Enemy always had more to say than rappers who glorify money, sex, drugs, and violence. Here, with fellow old-schooler... more

Tracklist

1

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

2:36 min
2

Black Is Back

2:42 min
3

Harder Than You Think

4:09 min
4

Between Hard In a Rock Place

0:59 min
5

Sex, Drugs and Violence (feat. KRS-ONE)

3:35 min
6

Amerikan Gangster (feat. E.infinite)

4:03 min
7

Can You Hear Me Now

3:58 min
8

Head Wide Shut

1:31 min
9

Flavor Man

3:44 min
10

The Enemy Battle Hymn of Public

3:23 min
11

Escapism

4:53 min
12

Frankenstar

3:23 min
13

Col-Leepin

3:58 min
14

Radiation of Radiotvmovie Nation

1:10 min
15

See Something, Say Something

3:46 min
16

Long and Whining Road

4:24 min
17

Bridge of Pain

3:07 min
18

Eve of Destruction

4:15 min
19

How to Sell Soul (Time Is God Refrain)

2:31 min
20

Harder Than You Think (Remix)

4:38 min

About How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? (Audio Version)

Public Enemy always had more to say than rappers who glorify money, sex, drugs, and violence. Here, with fellow old-schooler KRS-One, Public Enemy attacks with top-form verbal skills for—what else?—"Sex, Drugs & Violence." "Amerikan Gangster" with E.infinite goes even deeper into the soundfield, creating a pointed repudiation of where hip-hop sold its soul in the '90s. PE may have lost its cultural and commercial clout back in those dangerous days, but it never lost its artistic firepower. The 2007 set How You Sell Soul is as vibrant a hip-hop album as any by rappers half Chuck D's age. "Black Is Back" brings in Khari Wynn's guitar to do what AC/DC refused, delivering a perfect hard-rock/hip-hop mix. By the excellent "Long and Whining Road," Chuck D is finding space to quote obscure Bob Dylan songs. Flavor Flav, who'd made his way onto a VH-1 reality show, provides comic relief right on time with "Head Wide Shut" and "Flavor Man."