Label: Def Jam
Reissued 11/24/14, originally 1990
Fear of a Black Planet, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2015, finished #300 on Rolling Stone's list of the '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' and was added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2005. The album is certified platinum by the RIAA for more than one million shipped, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. Writes Wax Poetics editor-in-chief Torres in the liner notes, 'Though it sits in the shadow of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, Fear of a Black Planet is a formidable contender for one of the finest hip-hop albums ever recorded.'
Track Listing:
- Contract on the World Love Jam (Instrumental)
- Brothers Gonna Work It Out
- 911 Is a Joke
- Incident at 66.6 FM [Instrumental]
- Welcome to the Terrordome
- Meet the G That Killed Me
- Pollywanacraka
- Anti-Nigger Machine
- Burn Hollywood Burn (Featuring Ice Cube)
- Power to the People
- Who Stole the Soul?
- Fear of a Black Planet
- Revolutionary Generation
- Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya, Man!
- Reggie Jax
- Leave This Off Your Fu*Kin Charts (Instrumental)
- B Side Wins Again
- War at 33 1/3
- Final Count of the Collision Between Us and the Damned (Instrumental)
- Fight the Power