You're Gonna Get Yours

Produced by the Bomb Squad — comprising Hank Shocklee, Carl Ryder (Chuck D), Bill Stephney, and Eric Sadler — and recorded in New York in 1987, the track was built around a dense collage of samples including a prominent Cadillac-themed lyrical hook, and appeared on Public Enemy's debut album 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show'. Released in 1987 on Def Jam Records as part of 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'You're Gonna Get Yours' was one of the earliest demonstrations of the Bomb Squad's layered, confrontational production style and Chuck D's authoritative lyricism, establishing the sonic blueprint that would define Public Enemy's work through the late 1980s. The track is recognised as a foundational document of the Bomb Squad production aesthetic and a precursor to the maximalist, sample-dense sound the group perfected on 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' in 1988; it has been studied extensively in accounts of hip-hop production history as an early example of politically inflected, densely constructed rap music.