Hip hop icon Chuck D celebrates 35 years of Public Enemy’s ‘Yo! Bum Rush the Show’.

It wasn’t going to work for individuals, and even to this day I feel that individual efforts have been a downside for rap music and hip-hop. It was basically how we as a collective all bum-rushed into the music industry – that’s what ‘Yo! Bum Rush the Show’ was saying.

In 1987, Public Enemy released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show to massive success and critical acclaim. Yet Yo! is perhaps often overshadowed by its successor It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and the gargantuan Fear of a Black Planet.

To celebrate its 35th anniversary, this 18-page feature, with co-founder and frontman Chuck D, looks back on a hip hop album that was both innovative and controversial, reminding us why Yo! Bum Rush the Show is still regarded as one of the genre’s greatest and most influential records.

A selection of stunning photography accompanies the article, including unpublished images.

Issue 05 is available here.

Above image by Press.

Chuck D revisits Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush the Show for issue 05.

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Hip hop icon Chuck D celebrates 35 years of Public Enemy’s ‘Yo! Bum Rush the Show’.

It wasn’t going to work for individuals, and even to this day I feel that individual efforts have been a downside for rap music and hip-hop. It was basically how we as a collective all bum-rushed into the music industry – that’s what ‘Yo! Bum Rush the Show’ was saying.

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