Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A |
| Entertainment Weekly | A+ |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The New York Times | favorable |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Rolling Stone | 1991 |
| Rolling Stone | 2004 |
| Sputnikmusic | 5/5 |
| The Washington Post | favorable |
- Rolling Stone (10/3/91) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...attempts nothing short of setting a sociopolitical agenda for the black community... Apocalypse '91 needs to be watched."
- Q magazine (9/95, p. 132) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...fine by any but their own Olympian standards...showed Public Enemy ploughing old furrows..."
- New York Times (9/29/91) - "...hip-hop's prophets of rage...with songs that mix political, personal and promotional statements in quick-cutting, often oblique language..."
- NME (7/15/95, p. 47) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a more soulful, funkier stew than previously served but there were a couple of fillers....Good, but not as indispensable as its predecessors..."
- Spin - Ranked #7 in Spin's list of the 20 Best Albums of 1991.
- Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #21 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991.
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