How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul (Slam Jamz) Some two decades after making their first appearance, the onetime kings of rap flip through old scrapbooks with the latest in their bid for the nostalgia market. Reuniting with Gary G-Wiz of the Bomb Squad, Public Enemy brings the 1990 noise by recording 19 new tracks that embrace the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink aesthetic of their classic "Fear of a Black Planet." The results are surprisingly encouraging. Flavor Flav, having been turned by VH1 into even more of a caricature (if possible) than he already was, reminds PE fans that he is still a competent and efficient hypeman, and Chuck D sounds angrier and rawer than he has in years. Still fuming about hip-hop getting hijacked by wannabe-gangsters, Public Enemy joins forces with KRS-One for the bitter anti-gangsta rant "Sex, Drugs, and Violence." "Long and Whining Road," in contrast, is a four-and-a-half-minute trip down the band's memory lane, with a tearjerking acoustic guitar running underneath reminiscences of tours and albums past. For a group that released its first album when Ronald Reagan was president, the men Public Enemy still have that fire in their bellies, even while taking a moment to glance backward. [Saul Austerlitz]