High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fear of a Black Planet is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released April 10, 1990, on Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. Production for the album was handled by the group`s production team The Bomb Squad, who expanded on the dense, sample-layered sound of the group`s previous album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). They constructed elaborate sound collages for the album`s music, incorporating varying rhythms, numerous samples, media sound bites, and eccentric music loops, which reflected the content`s confrontational tone. Fear of a Black Planet contains themes concerning organization and empowerment within the African-American community, while presenting criticism of social issues affecting African Americans at the time of the album`s conception.