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Released
  
August 7, 2007

Release date
  
7 August 2007

Producers
  
Gary G-Wiz, Flavor Flav

Artist
  
Public Enemy

Label
  
SLAMjamz Records

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Recorded
  
2003–2007 The Mountain (Anaheim, California)

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? (2007)
  
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Genres
  
Hip hop music, East Coast hip hop, Political hip hop, Hardcore hip hop

Similar
  
Public Enemy albums, Political hip hop albums, Other albums

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? is the tenth studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released August 7, 2007 on Slam Jamz Recordings in the United States. Its release coincided with the 20th anniversary of their career. The album debuted at number 49 on Independent Albums chart, and it received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 71/100 from Metacritic. Music critic Robert Christgau named How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? his second favorite album that didn't make Rolling Stone's Top 50 albums of 2007.

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Reception

  • Alternative Press (p. 176) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Public Enemy remain fiercely independent and definitely seem revitalized."
  • The Wire (p. 75) - "[T]his is PE's tenth studio album in their 20th year and their blunt anti-artiste, anti-materialist stance carries serious weight."

    • Track listing

    1. "How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???" – 2:36
    2. "Black Is Back" – 2:42
    3. "Harder Than You Think" – 4:09
    4. "Between Hard and a Rock Place" – 0:59
    5. "Sex, Drugs & Violence" (feat. KRS-One) – 3:35
    6. "Amerikan Gangster" (feat. E.Infinite) – 4:03
    7. "Can You Hear Me Now" – 3:58
    8. "Head Wide Shut" – 1:31
    9. "Flavor Man" – 3:44
    10. "The Enemy Battle Hymn of the Public" – 3:24
    11. "Escapism" – 4:53
    12. "Frankenstar" – 3:23
    13. "Col-Leepin" – 3:58
    14. "Radiation of a RADIOTVMOVIE Nation" – 1:10
    15. "See Something, Say Something" – 3:46
    16. "Long and Whining Road" – 4:24
    17. "Bridge of Pain" – 3:07
    18. "Eve of Destruction" – 4:15
    19. "How You Sell Soul (Time Is God Refrain)" – 2:31

    Personnel

    Credits adapted from Allmusic.

  • James Bomb (S1W) – group member
  • Chuck D – executive producer, group member, vocals
  • Flavor Flav - group member, vocals
  • Bernie Larsen – guitar
  • Khari Wynn – guitar
  • Michael Faulkner – drums
  • Pop Diesel (S1W) – group member
  • La Aerial Owens – vocals (background)
  • E. Infinite – choir, chorus
  • Gene Barge – saxophone
  • Gebre Waddell - engineer
  • Vincent Arbelet – photography
  • Le Bijoutier – photography
  • Mathieu Cavaliere – photography
  • Derek Welte – photography
  • Gary G-Wiz – Producer
  • Mike "mGee" Gregoire – package design
  • Earle Holder – mastering
  • Walter Leapheart – liner notes
  • Amani K. Smith – associate producer, mixing, producer
  • Paul Stone – cover illustration
  • Andrew Williams – sound technician
  • Ron Wynn – liner notes

    • Songs

    1How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?2:37
    2Black Is Back2:42
    3Harder Than You Think4:09

    References

    How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? Wikipedia
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