With Drum & Bass being big in the charts in 2012 and being a Drum & Bass fan myself, it would have made sense for me to pick a Drum & Bass record for my record of the year. However whilst some of those records are alright, I asked the question are any of them better than "Hard Than You Think" by Public Enemy? to which I answered no.
The record itself is actually from 2007 but didn't chart until 2012 when it was used for the coverage of the Paralympics. It was the first Top 10 for Public Enemy and was their first UK Top 40 hit in 15 years.
In an era where many rappers had gone Electropop it was good to hear that proper Hip Hop was still being made by the likes of Public Enemy. That's what makes them so great, they haven't changed their sound to appeal to the masses unlike many other musicians across the spectrum do once they become successful.
The fact it gave them a Top 10 hit perhaps showed that there was still a lot of demand for proper Hip Hop for the masses and that you don't have to go down the Pitbull or Flo Rida route to sell lots of records.
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