The first of several acts assembled by the Shocklee brothers and Eric Sadler after Public Enemy, the Kings of Pressure were the result of a famed 1987 tryout in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. “Me and Chuck really didn’t have aspirations of doing PE: we thought we were good at managing and directing others,” recalls Hank Shocklee. “So we found the best rhymers in the area and tried to put them together. We’d sit these guys down and hold these sessions that were like classes and seminars on the business.