The meeting of rap and punk rock is pretty fun. Seven years after the song was originally written Rage Against The Machine performed it with Chuck D at a music festival, calling Chuck one of the “fathers of revolutionary music”. Ok not quite a “cover”, more like a live remix, but I’m counting it. Maybe another day we’ll delve into that scene. I am a really big fan of the Tricky-Martina-Massive-Attack era of British alt music so yes this one is my favorite. I got a raw deal, now I’m lookin’ for the steelīritish-Jamaican trip-hop master Tricky made a cover with his legendary partner, and on-and-off girlfriend, Martina Topley Bird. They could not understand that I’m a black man To criticize me some crime, never the less Public enemy servin’ time, they drew the line y’all I gotta get out, but that thought was thought beforeīut a brother like me begun, to be another one I wasn’t wit’ it, but just that very minute The song never became a mainstream hit like many of the other songs I’ve covered in this series, but its clearly had an impact on international black artists. The video matches the lyrics pretty exactly, with the notable difference being it implies his escape failed and he was hanged by the warden. The song is a story narrated by Chuck D about a wrongly imprisoned black man who’s been given the opportunity to join the military but refuses and plots his escape instead. Your military buddies would probably not be happy about it. In 1989 rap group Public Enemy released a protest song about the treatment of blacks in America and the prison industrial complex. Punishful is never the way, and we can’t strive it’s Yihweh who brings us through.An American anti-racist rap anthem lives on in punk, trip hop, and Brazilian death metal 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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