Warning: Contains coarse language and/or themes.

When Public Enemy's second album, 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,' was first released in 1988, "it completely upended the way records are made. It challenged the concept of reinvention in recorded music," writes The Roots' Amir 'Questove' Thompson in the booklet that is included in the deluxe two-CD/DVD reissue of the album on Def Jam.

Containing the original album, executive produced by Rick Rubin and produced by Hank Shocklee and Carl Ryder (aka Chuck D.), 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' features the hit tracks "Bring the Noise," "Don't Believe the Hype," "Louder Than a Bomb" and "Rebel Without a Pause."

The second disc includes 13 rare bonus mixes, among them the original "No Noise" version of "Bring the Noise," instrumental versions of "Rebel Without a Pause," "Night of the Living Baseheads" and "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," as well as the soundtrack version of "Fight the Power" from Spike Lee's groundbreaking Do the Right Thing movie.

The third disc is a DVD of the 1989 VHS release 'Fight the Power... Live,' directed by Hart Perry and long unavailable for sale. It includes the original videos for "Fight the Power," "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" and "Night of the Living Baseheads" along with several live performances.

Wax Poetics magazine editor-in-chief Andre Torres calls it, simply, "a magnum opus... the greatest hip-hop album ever made, and one of the most important recordings of the twentieth century... It changed the course of not only hip-hop, but much of popular music thereafter."