I started listening to Will Smith’s podcast miniseries Class of ‘88 about all the great hip hop that came out that year, including #PublicEnemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Their publicist got them a gig playing New York’s Rikers Penitentiary. The night before, a reporter from Rolling Stone called the warden and brought up the song Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, about a prison break. The warden didn’t actually know PE’s music and shut down the show. 2/x