>Nation is very good but if you like De La or Eric B and
>Rakim, you just do.
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>
>And the main point is, Fear of a Black Planet is not usually
>mentioned when those various artists' album are mentioned -
>because Nation is so much better than Fear of a Black Planet.

Fear is mentioned with It Takes A Nation more than the artist you mentioned because it's so close to It Takes A Nation. So it's not a big gap between those PE albums but it is a big gap between all the other artists and those two albums.