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"Fight the Power" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released as a single in the summer of 1989 on Motown Records. It was conceived at the request of film director Spike Lee , who sought a musical theme for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing .
Fight the Power" gave the brothers their first song to peak in the top 20 on three different charts. The success of the song also helped its album, The Heat Is On, reach number 1 on the pop chart. The song's lyric, "we gotta fight the powers that be", would be interpolated years later by rap group Public Enemy on their 1989 song of the same name.
Fight the Power may refer to: "Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)", a 1975 song by the Isley Brothers "Fight the Power" (Public Enemy song) (1989) Fight the Power... Live!, a 1989 music video compilation by Public Enemy; Fight the Power: Greatest Hits Live!, a 2007 live album by Public Enemy "Fight the Power", a 2008 eighth season episode of DeGrassi ...
Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World is a 2023 BBC Studios television documentary production in collaboration with PBS, presented by Chuck D of Public Enemy.It was broadcast as a four-part miniseries starting in late January 2023 on BBC Studios' BBC2, with a series run through Black History Month in February 2023. [2]
Fight the Power... Live! is a live video by Public Enemy released in 1989 on the VHS [1] and laserdisc [2] formats. A DVD edition was released in November 2014 as part of a deluxe reissue of the group's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. [3]
It included the singles "Welcome to the Terrordome", written after the band was criticized by Jews for Professor Griff's anti-semitic comments, "911 Is a Joke", which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community, and "Fight the Power". [17] "Fight the ...
Fight the Power: Greatest Hits Live! is a live album by Public Enemy. [1] Professional ratings; Review scores; Source Rating; Allmusic: link: Track listing
Fight the Power was a professional wrestling live event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on June 1, 1996. The event was held in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. [1] [2] Excerpts from Fight the Power aired on the June 4, June 11, and June 18 episodes of the syndicated television show ECW Hardcore TV.