Brazilian metal band Sepultura and the rapper Sabotage covered the song.Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Ramone refused, as group member Professor Griff – despite not appearing in the video – had been reported making antisemitic remarks.
According to Bernstein, Public Enemy wanted Joey Ramone to play a prisoner. The official video was directed by Adam Bernstein. The music video was filmed in the abandoned cell blocks of the nationally landmarked old Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey. The lyric "anti-nigger machine" became the title of a song on the group's next album, Fear of a Black Planet. The lines in the scratch breaks – "Now they got me in a cell" and "Death Row/What a brother knows" – are samples from " Bring the Noise", another song on the same album. Aside from the aforementioned Hayes sample, the song samples " Little Green Apples" by The Escorts and " Living for the City" by Stevie Wonder. It features a slower, more melodic beat than other songs on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Flavor went to another room and called the studio to achieve this effect.
The vocals are mostly by lead rapper Chuck D, with sidekick Flavor Flav appearing between verses, seemingly speaking to Chuck over the phone. It is built on a high-pitched piano sample from Isaac Hayes' "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic", from 1969's Hot Buttered Soul. The song tells the story of a conscientious objector who makes a prison escape. Punishful is never the way, and we can’t strive it’s Yihweh who brings us through." Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" is a song on the American hip hop group Public Enemy's 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. I also took out yrics by Masta Killa - track outro,Ĭontrolled by Allah I’ll be the most humble But also punishful To those who are unlawful to righteousness I strive to stay alive and live this Given the nature of the subject the track, and the rest of the lyrics - I just felt this could go. That kidnaps hip hop tracks, beats in the game of rapĪ possible reference to Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow.
PUBLIC ENEMY BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS FREE
that way one is free on the inside, freedom on the outside follows. The other way is always faith in Elohim…. I decided to leave the track at the third verse, which doesn’t end like the prior two with ‘goin’ for the steel’, but rather - ‘lookin' for the fence.’ Our narrator has been put in an undue ‘legal’ and prison situation, and yet it’s by his giving in to anger that he becomes a part of the problem, joins in the madness, and therefore ends up deeper in the system, after he attempts a breakout (killing a lady prison guard in the process). 'Cause the steel was black, the attitude exactįifty-three brothers on the run, and we are gone Then they saw it was rougher than the average bluffer I took out the last verse which describes a prison breakout by the narrator, who’s shot at initially by guards from the prison tower, the last lyrics,Īnd to my surprise the water tower blew up (S1s refers to the S1Ws, who wear military style fatigues and carry plastic machine guns as part of Public Enemy’s live concerts etc). With Don’t Believe The Hype I took out some lyrics,īut the S1s will straighten it out quick fast and a hurry Is Your God a Dog - Eye For An Eye (Like spectators) I applied variating delay to all tracks (at low volume).Īlso played synth telecaster to the latter halves of Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos and, Is Your God a Dog, also a synth intro to Don’t Believe The Hype.įor the remist I titled the piece, Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos. Sometimes I apply some chamber and or hall reverb.Ī selection of tracks from It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, 1988Īnd also, He Got Game, 1998 (tracks 6 - 8) Some releases are hot to signal, but I'm looking for an inherent sound. My versions are sometimes lower in vol level than the originals. This is configured to colour, shape the sound. I import the audio files into the daw and then usually load one or more processors of some kind (vinyl, compressor, desk emulations etc) on the stereo master buss. Just felt I could give them a different kinda sound. I’ve decided to remaster some albums and tracks that have already been released.
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