{{Infobox album | name = Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black | type = studio | artist = Public Enemy | cover = PublicEnemyApocalypse91.jpg | alt = | released = October 1, 1991 | recorded = | venue = | studio = The Music Palace in Long Island, New York | genre = Hardcore hip hop political rap | length = 51:54 | label = | producer = Gary G-Wiz The Bomb Squad (exec.), The Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk | prev_title = Fear of a Black Planet | prev_year = 1990 | next_title = Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age | next_year = 1994 | misc = {{Singles | name = Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black | type = studio | single1 = Bring the Noise | single1date = June 4, 1991 | single2 = Can't Truss It | single2date = September 24, 1991 | single3 = Shut 'Em Down | single3date = January 3, 1992 | single4 = Nighttrain | single4date = March 3, 1992 }} }}Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on October 1, 1991, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. The album received critical acclaim, ranking at No. 2 in The Village Voices 1991 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Recording and productionApocalypse 91 was recorded at The Mix Palace in Long Island, New York and produced by The Bomb Squad and The Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk, which consisted of producers Stuart Robertz (fictional), Cerwin "C-Dawg" Depper (fictional), Gary "G-Wiz" Rinaldo, and The JBL. The album title is an allusion to the titles of the films Apocalypse Now and The Empire Strikes Back. The group would take a new direction with their sound, partly out of necessity. According to Hank Shocklee, around this time, the disks for every track they had been working on for the past four to five years had been stolen. As a result, they had to rush to re-create their music and to put out their album in a timely manner. Shocklee admitted that it was impossible to completely recover what they had lost, saying "once you lose all your data, it's very difficult to get that data back...you may get some of it back, but you'll never get the complete set. You won't even know what the complete set is, because there's data in there you didn't really