Fear Of A Black Planet
by Public Enemy
Listen & Collect
Complete your collection or upgrade your listening experience.
Public Enemy bestography
Fear Of A Black Planet is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by Public Enemy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Public Enemy is It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back which is ranked number 236 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,672.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
Listen to Fear Of A Black Planet on YouTube
Fear Of A Black Planet track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Fear Of A Black Planet rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
Purplepash
pedro1976
Romanelli
covecove
imacgill
AAL2014
cestuneblagueFear Of A Black Planet collection
Showing latest 20 members who have this album in their collection | Show all 230 members
Fear Of A Black Planet ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 515 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/09/2026 06:24 | cicadelic | 13,635 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 03:00 | Proto | 4,241 | 33/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 01:11 | xhitmanx | 1,572 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/26/2026 08:26 | spinout | 3,472 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2026 04:12 | RockingRoll666 | 1,682 | 73/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.0/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.0.
Fear Of A Black Planet favourites
Showing latest 20 members who have added this album as a favourite | Show all 88 members
Fear Of A Black Planet comments
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First | Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
This is another one that only clicked with me on second listen. The strong and mesmerizing beats ground the music, allowing them to go in weird directions with the music, sound collages and rapping and it works. It's really edgy, I want to hear it again. (Edited)
A political hip-hop classic that spoke to its time -- while, sadly remaining timeless. (Edited)
Message on point, repetitive after a while, but makes you feel like you're on a protest. Production is hit or miss, but I prefer this sample heavy than the raw 80s production on their previous.
Jboy56 02/24/2022 17:56 | #281878
This album does not sound very good. (Edited)
Lyrically awesome. Seems to be a voice to empower black Gen-Xers. Production is quite poor by today's standards though, severely diminishing the quality of the album. Would have loved to hear Fear Of A Black Planet if it was produced by Dre, for example.
planetneutral 11/30/2020 00:25 | #261659
I had to listen to this twice to realize how refreshingly anti-misogynistic it is.
Timestarter 08/31/2020 11:46 | #257620
Fav. Tracks: Brothers Gonna Work It Out, 911 Is A Joke, Welcome To The Terrordrome, Who Stole The Soul?, Fear Of A Black Planet, Fight The Power.
teague 07/13/2020 20:01 | #255528
Some of the production choices are a bit iffy, but the messages they purvey are incredibly important, and remain so even today. The personalities on Fear of a Black Planet are strong and attention grabbing.
Public Enemy came out swinging again for there third release its full of The Bomb Squad with Chuck D preaching truth and Flav kicking his own style
Like a bomb ass three legged table, if any individual leg were to break the entire structure would keel over. Its remarkable how Terminator X, Chuck, and Flava flav elevate and uplift one another's talents, each accenting the others perfectly
Your feedback for Fear Of A Black Planet
The top-voted comments get featured on our charts, Album of the Day, and the site newsletter.
