There's a Poison Goin' On

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There's a POISON Goin' On...
Studio album by Public Enemy
Released	20 July 1999
Recorded	1998-1999
Genre	East Coast hip hop, Hardcore hip hop, Political hip hop
Length	51:45
Label	Play It Again Sam, Atomic Pop
Producer	Tom E. Hawk Flavor Flav
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link RapReviews.com link Rolling Stone link
Public Enemy chronology
He Got Game (soundtrack) (1998) There's a Poison Goin' On (1999) Revolverlution (2002)

There's a Poison Goin' On is Public Enemy's 1999 album, which contained the controversial track "Swindler's Lust," an obvious parody of Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List.

Contents 1 Album information 2 Reception 3 Track listing 4 The reissue

[edit] Album information

Less provocatively, the album's title was a take on Sly and the Family Stone's 1971 classic, There's a Riot Goin' On. Many (if not most) fans and critics consider this PE's finest release since 1991.

The album was released on-line on May 18, 1999, through the now defunct Atomic Pop website. The CD version was released on July 20.

[edit] Reception

Professional reviews:

• Rolling Stone (8/5/99, p.64) - 3 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...there is some jigginess on this record....the emphasis is on sparser, more spacious mixes- less claustrophobic and dizzying...but still gripping..."

• Alternative Press (11/99, p.119) - 4 out of 5 - "...the still-strident PE are back....best as an eyes-closed, headphones on high-volume experience. It takes extremely seriously the idea that hip hop should be consciousness-altering music..."

• The Wire (8/99, p.55) - "Public Enemy are back and this time it's personal....Everyone...finds themselves caught in Chuck's rhetorical crosshairs and no one survives intact....this is the loudest, noisest Public Enemy album in nine years."

• Muzik (8/99, p.84) - 5 stars (out of 5) - "...defiant, provocative and reassuringly abrasive music....this album is a treat....Posion is vintage PE, all the more welcome at a time when there had seemed to be no one left who was prepared to make rational, thoughtful, incisive hip-hop."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Dark Side Of The Wall: 2000" - 1:36
2. "Do You Wanna Go Our Way???" - 3:56
3. "LSD" - 3:30
4. "Here I Go" - 3:05
5. "41:19" - 3:57
6. "Crash" - 3:48
7. "Crayola" - 3:30
8. "First The Sheep Next The Shepherd?" - 3:17
9. "World Tour Sessions" - 4:27
10. "Last Mass Of The Caballeros" - 3:56
11. "I" - 4:30
12. "What What" - 5:02
13. "Kevorkian" - 2:37
14. "Swindlers Lust" - 5:23

[edit] The reissue

The album was reissued in 2004 via Koch with these bonus tracks.

1. "Do You Wanna Go Our Way???" [Nextmen UK Mixx] - 4:18
2. "Here I Go" [Commissioned Mixx DJ Johnny Juice Vacation in Viet] - 3:20
3. "World Tour Sessions" [G Wiz Black Planet Tour Mix] - 3:35
4. "I" [Eye for an Eye Mixx] - 5:43
5. "Kill Em" Live - 3:25

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