gast!’s HipHop Classics – The Devil Made Me Do It
April 30th, 2008 by gast!
Two years after Public Enemy’s groundbreaking and militant album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” was released Paris (real name Oscar Jackson) dropped his overwhelming debutalbum “The Devil Made Me Do It” for the second time, this time via Tommy Boy records. Combining the rage of (early) Ice Cube with the social consciousness of Public Enemy, the lyrics were sure to grab the attention of the (then socially aware) HipHop audience. The title song’s video was banned from MTV and a legend was born. (Paris hasn’t changed a bit as you can see on the site of his own label “Guerrila Funk” where the discussion on black awareness continues till date.)
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