It seems I've just landed in a lot of rap and metal of late, and neither I'm a huge fan of. I even had Anthrax mixed into Public Enemy's last song on this album, "Bring Tha Noize." I guess what this album seems to me though is that while the content of rap has changed a bit there is still a lot of angry tones that drive it. Except it seems in the early 90's they were dealing with topics that mattered more like racism, the media, etc. It didn't seem to be about only money and sex for the majority of the content. These guys also seem to have taken some inspiration from Ice Cube and included content that makes the songs pop with more realism by making it sound as if the horrors are being broadcast while listening.
History: With the album garnering a lot of critical acclaim and reaching number four on the Billboard Charts, it was a huge hit in 1991 during it's release. The album's title was obviously a play with words regarding The Empire Strikes Back. The album also did cover some popular events at the time in it's video for single, in which they murdered the governor of Arizona because at the time he had refused to recognize Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday.
