Black History Month on BBC 1Xtra

The Basement on 1Xtra www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/basement celebrates old skool black music that influences the sounds of today.

The show launches its free weekly download with the first of four shows celebrating the 20th anniversary of seminal 1988 hip hop albums.

This week it's Public Enemy's It Takes A Nations Of Millions to Hold Us Back.
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The show features an interview with Semtex www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/semtex from the 1Xtra Hip Hop Shows www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/ recorded with Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Hank and Keith Shocklee backstage at Brixton Academy earlier this year.

"It's the DNA of hip hop today…every artist has been influenced by it" - Semtex

"We always wanted to make records that you could listen to over and over again… We didn't think it would last 20 mins but it's lasted 20 years" - Hank Shocklee

"In order to be noticed you had to carve your own niche. You had to be bigger, faster, stronger and leave no stone unturned" - Chuck D

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Tracklisting:

Public Enemy - Countdown To Armageddon
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
Public Enemy - Don’t Believe The Hype
Public Enemy - Cold Lampin With Flavour
Public Enemy - Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic
Public Enemy - Louder Than A Bomb
Public Enemy - Caught Can We Get A Witness
Public Enemy - Show Em Watcha Got
Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Baseheads
Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero
Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
Public Enemy - Prophets Of Rage
Public Enemy - Party For Your Right To Fight

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