>Nation is very good but if you like De La or Eric B and >Rakim, you just do. > > >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.