Nod to The Legend · The producers · 1988
The Bomb Squad
Hank Shocklee and Public Enemy
On It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Shocklee's team layered dozens of samples, sirens and noise into dense walls of sound.
Still heard: Maximal layering and noise as rhythm still drive hard hip-hop.
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