Loud, obnoxious, funky, avant-garde, political, hilarious – Public Enemy's brilliant second album is all of these things, all at once. Chuck D booms intricate. Find a Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back first pressing or reissue. Complete your Public Enemy collection. Shop Vinyl and CDs. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the sophomore studio album by New York hip hop group Public Enemy, released on June 28, 1988 through Def Jam Recordings. Album Sales: 1,000,000+ First Release Date: April 1988 The second studio album from Public Enemy. It is considered one of their most commercially successful albums as. I wanted to try to make a Hip-Hop version of Marvin Gaye's What's Goin On, says the leader of Public Enemy, Chuck D. Something that was there, something that was a. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Def Jam Recordings, 1988. 1 - Countdown to Armageddon - 00.00 2 - Bring the Noise - 1.41 3. The 50 Greatest Rap Albums of the '80s. By Rob Kenner, Al Shipley. Yo! Bum Rush the Show was an invigorating record, but it looks like child's play compared to its monumental sequel, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, a. Chuck D, The Bomb Squad, and others bum-rush memory lane to give us an in-depth look at the building blocks that shaped Public Enemy's classic LP, It Takes. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the second studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on June 28, 1988 by Def Jam Recordings.