Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
About Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Public Enemy’s Chuck D leads a cast of hip-hop icons and leading African-American and Latino cultural commentators as they chart the factors that led to the birth of the revolutionary art form of hip-hop in 1970s New York, as well as the creation of the seminal hit The Message. They evoke a picture of how, after the turbulence of the 60s and the civil rights struggles, desperate social conditions…
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World is a documentary series made for BBC Two. Chuck D leads the cast as Self, KRS-One as Self, Grandmaster Caz as Self, and Melle Mel as Self.
It reached one season of 4 episodes from January 2023.
Shelv files it under hip-hop, pop culture, and american culture. American members can watch it on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, Thirteen, and WETA+.
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