There's a Poison Goin' On is the seventh studio album

Studio album

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 by American hip hop

Hip hop music

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 group Public Enemy, released July 20, 1999 on Atomic Pop Records in the United States. Its title is adapted from the title of Sly & the Family Stone

Sly & the Family Stone

Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music...

's album There's a Riot Goin' On

There's a Riot Goin' On

There's a Riot Goin' On is the fifth studio album by American funk and soul band Sly & the Family Stone, released November 20, 1971 on Epic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place primarily throughout 1970 to 1971 at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California...

(1971). The album was originally made available through the Internet

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 on May 18, 1999, via the now defunct Atomic Pop website.

Reception

• Rolling Stone
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  (8/5/99, p. 64) - 3½ 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
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  (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
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  (8/99, p. 84) - 5 stars (out of 5) - "...defiant, provocative and reassuringly abrasive music....this album is a treat....Poison 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."

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

Bonus tracks
The album was reissued in 2004 via Koch with 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 Vietnam Forida Mix] - 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

External links

• There's a Poison Goin' On at Discogs
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• Public Enemy Makes Friends Online at Entertainment Weekly
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