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It Takes a Nation of Millions was the sign that hip-hop had exploded like a grenade. A rap record as abrasive, hardcore, and eloquent as a JFK speech, the 1988 disc is one classic track after another: tense, multilayered, harmonically wild music. Chuck D. declaims like a master preacher with foil Flavor Flav's voice darting around his. They've got the desperate energy of people fighting for their lives, and everything from their pumped-up rhetoric ("Prophets of Rage") to the group's quasi-paramilitary organization to the sirens and sax squeals in nearly every track declares how urgent their mission is. It's a hugely influential album, and it still sounds fresh and frightening after all these years. --Douglas Wolk

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
• Language : English
• Product Dimensions : 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 4.02 ounces
• Manufacturer : Def Jam
• Original Release Date : 1995
• Date First Available : December 7, 2006
• Label : Def Jam
• Country of Origin : USA
• Number of discs : 1