"Welcome to the Terrordome" is a song by the American hip hop band

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, recorded for their 1990 album ''

Fear of a Black Planet ''Fear of a Black Planet'' is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy. It was released on April 10, 1990, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records, and produced by the group's production team The Bomb Squad, who expanded ...

''. It was released as a single in January 1990, according to the discographer Martin C. Strong.

Critical reception

In a retrospective review of the song for

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, John Bush said that the song was "arguably the production peak of the Bomb Squad and one of Chuck D.'s best rapping performances ever", and stated that "none of ublic Enemy'stracks were more musically incendiary than 'Welcome to the Terrordome'. British journalist Garry Mulholland included the song in his book ''This Is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco'', describing the song's music as being "based on a boiling, undulating bluesy shudder that isn't even recognizable as a riff" and the lyrics as "the best and most complex slew of metaphors and similes that Chuck ever wrote"

Charts

References

External links

* {{Discogs master, type=single, 51004 1990 songs Public Enemy (band) songs