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 and the experience of countless dispossessed people of colour living in a city mired in crisis helped give birth to a new art form.

First Air Date: 2023-01-21

Rating: 7/10

Cast

Chuck D

KRS-One

Grandmaster Caz

Melle Mel

Abiodun Oyewole

Nelson George

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Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

Lee Quiñones

Michael Holman