Public Enemy are rubbish? If only more classic albums got this treatment …

Readers were outraged that NPR intern Austin Cooper had never heard Public Enemy. Surely such youthful individuality should be applauded?In the ceaseless scramble for page views that is online music journalism in 2012, NPR's strategy of tasking its interns to troll the internet is certainly paying off. First there was Emily White and her wide-eyed astonishment at the archaic idea of paying for music; now, it's the turn of young Austin Cooper – a 19-year-old whose self-described taste in hip-ho...

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