Public Enemy, Nation and the clock
November 1988: Chuck D sits for a television interview while Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is still rewriting what a hip-hop record can carry. He talks Nation politics, the clock Flavor Flav wears as a joke that is not a joke, and the urgency of putting Black news on wax at album volume.
The cadence is preacher-clear and producer-hard. No soft sell: the group is a newsroom with sirens.
