• Q magazine  (9/95, p.132) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...a stunning opening...just the first, in retrospect almost shy, step on a remarkable journey...a hard, droning extension of the basic drum`n'scratch Def Jam template that had served LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys so well."

• Melody Maker
  Melody Maker
  Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
  
  (7/22/95, p.35) - Recommended - "It wasn't just a new sound, a discovery. It was like being struck by a meteor."

• NME
  NME
  The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
  
  (9/25/93, p.19) - Ranked #49 in NME's list of The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s.

• NME
  NME
  The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
  
  (7/15/95, p.47) - 9 (out of 10) - "Yo! Bum Rush The Show announced a hip-hop group who smouldered beneath dark, sparse beats like no other, introduced us to the coolest vocal double act ever...and featured as striking a statement of intent as you could wish for in `Public Enemy Number 1'....brilliant."

Track listing

1. "You're Gonna Get Yours
   You're Gonna Get Yours
   "You're Gonna Get Yours" is a 1987 single by hip hop group Public Enemy from their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show . Chuck D references the Oldsmobile 98 automobile in the song's lyrics. It peaked at number 88 on the UK Singles Chart.M|A|R|R|S sampled the song on their 1987 song "Pump Up the...
   
   " (Chuck D, Hank Shocklee) - 4:04
2. "Sophisticated Bitch" featuring Vernon Reid
   Vernon Reid
   Vernon Reid is an English-born American guitarist, songwriter, composer, and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.Critic Steve Huey writes, "[Reid's]...
   
    of Living Colour
   Living Colour
   Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...
   
    (Chuck D, William Drayton, Flavor Flav, Shocklee) - 4:30
3. "Miuzi Weighs a Ton" (Chuck D, Shocklee) - 5:44
4. "Timebomb" (Chuck D, Shocklee) - 2:54
5. "Too Much Posse" (Chuck D, Drayton, Flav, Shocklee) - 2:25
6. "Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man)" (Chuck D, Shocklee) - 3:48
7. "Public Enemy No. 1" (Chuck D, Shocklee) - 4:41
8. "M.P.E." (Chuck D, Drayton, Flav, Shocklee) - 3:44
9. "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" (Chuck D, Drayton, Shocklee) - 4:25
10. "Raise the Roof" (Chuck D, Eric Sadler, Shocklee) - 5:18
11. "Megablast" (Chuck D, Drayton, Flav, Shocklee) 2:51
12. "Terminator X Speaks With His Hands" (Chuck D, Drayton, Sadler, Shocklee) - 2:13

Personnel

• Chuck D
  Chuck D
  Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.- Early life :Ridenhour was born in Queens, New York...
  
   - vocals
• Flavor Flav
  Flavor Flav
  William Jonathan Drayton, Jr. , better known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American rapper and television personality who rose to prominence as a member of the rap group Public Enemy...
  
   - vocals
• Hank Shocklee - drum programming
• Eric Sadler - drum programming
• Terminator X
  Terminator X
  Norman Rogers is a retired American DJ, best known for his work with rap group Public Enemy, which he left in 1999...
  
   - lead scratch
• Hank Shocklee - minimal synth programming
• Eric Sadler - minimal synth programming
• Stephen Linsley - bass, recording & mixing
• Bill Stephney - bass
• Vernon Reid
  Vernon Reid
  Vernon Reid is an English-born American guitarist, songwriter, composer, and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.Critic Steve Huey writes, "[Reid's]...
  
   - guitars
• Bill Stephney - guitars

• Johnny "Juice" Rosado - Rhythm scratch
• Rick Rubin
  Rick Rubin
  Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an American record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin was the co-founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings...
  
   - executive producer
• Bill Stephney - producer
• Carl Ryder - co-producer
• Hank Shocklee - co-producer
• Glen E. Friedman
  Glen E. Friedman
  Glen E. Friedman is an American photographer and artist.Coming to prominence in the 1980s with his photography of skateboarders and musicians, Friedman is considered one of the most important photographers of his generation.He is perhaps best known for his work promoting rebellious artists such as...
  
   - photography
• Bill Stephney - mixing
• Steve Ett - mixing
• Hank Shocklee - mixing
• Rick Rubin - mixing

Sample credits

• "Super Sporm" by Captain Skyy
• "Getting it On" by Dennis Coffey
  Dennis Coffey
  Dennis Coffey is an American guitarist. He was a studio musician for many soul and R&B recordings.-Biography:Coffey learned to play guitar at the age of thirteen, in the Michigan Upper Peninsula town of Copper City...
  
  
• "Funky Drummer
  Funky drummer
  "Funky Drummer" is a funk song recorded by James Brown and his band. The recording's drum break, performed by drummer Clyde Stubblefield, is one of the most frequently sampled rhythmic breaks in hip hop and popular music; indeed, it lays a strong claim to being the most sampled recording ever,...
  
  " by James Brown

• "Friends" by Whodini
  Whodini
  Whodini is a hip hop group that was formed in 1981. The Brooklyn, New York-based trio consisted of vocalist and main lyricist Jalil Hutchins; co-vocalist John Fletcher, aka Ecstasy ; and turntable artist DJ Drew Carter, aka Grandmaster Dee.-Early years:Whodini was among the first hip-hop groups to...
  
  
• "Groove Line" by Heatwave
  Heatwave (band)
  Heatwave was an international funk/disco musical band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton , Swiss Mario Mantese , Czechoslovak Ernest "Bilbo" Berger , Jamaican Eric Johns and Briton Roy Carter .They were known for their successful...
  
  

• "Rock Steady" by Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• "Different Strokes" by Syl Johnson
  Syl Johnson
  Syl Johnson is an American blues and soul singer and record producer.-Biography:Born Sylvester Thompson in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf in the 1950s, before recording with Jimmy Reed...
  
  
• "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow
  Kurtis Blow
  Kurt Walker , better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper and record producer. He is one of the first commercially successful rappers and the first to sign with a major record label...
  
  
• "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss

• "Just Kissed My Baby" by The Meters
  The Meters
  The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977...
  
  

• "Grip It" by Trouble Funk
  Trouble Funk
  Trouble Funk is an American R&B and funk band from Washington, DC. It helped to popularize that area's local funk subgenre known as go-go. Among the band's well-known songs are the go-go anthem "Hey, Fellas." They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, Live,...
  
  
• "Blow Your Head" by The J.B.'s
  The J.B.'s
  The J.B.'s were James Brown's band during the first half of the 1970s. On record the J.B.'s were sometimes billed under various alternate names such as The James Brown Soul Train, Maceo and the Macks, A.A.B.B., The First Family and The Last Word...
  
  
• "Here We Go" (Live) by Run-D.M.C.
  Run-D.M.C.
  Run–D.M.C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, the group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.Run–D.M.C...
  
  

• "AJ Scratch" by Kurtis Blow
• "Feel the Heartbeat" by Treacherous Three
  Treacherous Three
  The Treacherous Three was a pioneering hip hop group that was formed in 1978 and consisted of DJ Easy Lee, Kool Moe Dee, L.A. Sunshine, Special K and Spoonie Gee , with occasional contributions from DJ Dano B, DJ Reggie Reg and DJ Crazy Eddie...
  
  
• "Blow Your Head" by Fred Wesley
  Fred Wesley
  Fred Wesley is an American jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
   and The JBs

• "Shack Up" by Banbarra

• "Assembly Line" by The Commodores
• "Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie" by Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five
• "Suicide's An Alternative / You'll Be Sorry" by Suicidal Tendencies
  Suicidal Tendencies
  Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
  
  

• "All We Need is Another Chance" by The Escorts

• "Just Kissed My Baby" by The Meters

Chart history

External links

• Yo! Bum Rush the Show at Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
  
  
• Album Review at OhWord