While in school he amassed awards for his visual art, but later developed an obsession with hip hop music after hearing his older brother play the classic Public Enemy album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
The Nation | Back to the Future | Navajo Nation | Back to the Bible | The Hold Steady | VNV Nation | Nation | Texas hold 'em | The Empire Strikes Back | Nation of Islam | Taking Back Sunday | nation | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation | The Birth of a Nation | Osage Nation | Crow Nation | Cherokee Nation | Back Bay | Alien Nation | Welcome Back, Kotter | Talk of the Nation | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | It Takes Two | Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma | back | The Savage Nation | Oneida Indian Nation | I Want You Back | Hip-Hop Nation | Brewster's Millions |
The title of the album is a reference to the 1915 white supremacist film The Birth of a Nation as well as one of the group's prior albums, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
#"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" (Single Edit) (C. Ridenhour, H. Shocklee, E. Sadler, W. Drayton) (from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back) – 3:43