Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (Def Jam) ****1/2
Mat Snow, Sounds, 16 July 1988
RICK RUBIN is white, Jewish and, on Public Enemy's second album here under scrutiny, steel-reinforces his reputation as today's greatest producer of rebel rock.
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