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How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???

Public Enemy

2007 · Hip Hop

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How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? by Public Enemy

How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? is a Hip-Hop album by Public Enemy, originally released in 2007.

About

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 <i>How You Sell Soul</i> 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."

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Tracklist

Side CD

  1. CD-1How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?2:36
  2. CD-2Black Is Back2:42
  3. CD-3Harder Than You Think4:09
  4. CD-4Between Hard And A Rock Place0:59
  5. CD-5Sex, Drugs & Violence3:35
  6. CD-6Amerikan Gangster4:03
  7. CD-7Can You Hear Me Now3:58
  8. CD-8Head Wide Shut1:31
  9. CD-9Flavor Man3:44
  10. CD-10The Enemy Battle Hymn Of The Public3:23
  11. CD-11Escapism4:53
  12. CD-12Frankenstar3:23
  13. CD-13Col-Leepin3:58
  14. CD-14Radiation Of A RADIOTVMOVIE Nation1:10
  15. CD-15See Something, Say Something3:46
  16. CD-16Long And Whining Road4:26
  17. CD-17Bridge Of Pain3:07
  18. CD-18Eve Of Destruction4:15
  19. CD-19How You Sell Soul (Time Is God Refrain)2:31

Side DVD

  1. DVD-1Where's There's Smoke...53:46
  2. DVD-2PE20 TOUR58: Power Energy, Planet Earth, Public Enemy, The France Show49:51
  3. DVD-3Live @ BB King's Footage4:58
  4. DVD-4The Story Of The Public Enemy Comic Book8:34
  5. DVD-5Photo Gallery5:08
  6. DVD-6The Passion Of The Heist4:15
  7. DVD-7Why Am I So Funky?3:59
  8. DVD-8Circle Of Lies6:00
  9. DVD-9@ Last3:24
  10. DVD-10KC (It Goes Down)3:54
  11. DVD-11Almost Famous4:22
  12. DVD-12Lyrikal Tranzportashun3:48
  13. DVD-13Pressure3:43
  14. DVD-14Superman's Black In The Building3:47
  15. DVD-15Prophets Of Rage3:52
  16. DVD-16Revolution3:39
  17. DVD-17Who's Your Hero4:00
  18. DVD-18Hot 13:14
  19. DVD-19Ungabungabunga4:04
  20. DVD-20Electric Slave3:56
  21. DVD-21Bring That Beat Back3:52
  22. DVD-22Air Conditioning3:22
  23. DVD-23MKLVFKWR3:30
  24. DVD-24Revolverlution3:05
  25. DVD-25Gotta Give The Peeps What They Need3:41
  26. DVD-26Do You Wanna Go Our Way3:54
  27. DVD-27Son Of A Bush5:22
  28. DVD-28PE 20th Promo3:57

Sound DNA

  • Hip-Hop
  • East Coast
  • dense
  • defiant
  • political

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Tracks 9, 13 and 17 are directly taken from Flav Flav's previously released solo album "Hollywood".
Track 18 is a cover of the 1965 song "Eve Of Destruction" originally performed by Barry McGuire.
DVD contains a one hour behind the scenes video of Public Enemy on the Smoke'n Grooves tour from 1998, a 50 min live performance video of Public Enemy in France from 2007, a short 5 min clip of a Public Enemy live show at BB Kings in New York from May 6th 2006, an 8 min documentary video on the Public Enemy Comic book and a photo gallery.
Audio Setup:
- 2.0 Stereo
- 5.1 Surround

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Bernie LarsonGUITAR
  • Daddy GSAXOPHONE, WRITTEN-BY
  • E. InfiniteFEATURING
  • Khari WynnGUITAR
  • KRS-ONEFEATURING, WRITTEN-BY
  • LaAerial OwensBACKING VOCALS

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