The PBS documentary Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World with Chuck D is officially coming in 2023. According to a press release, the four-part series will arrive next January with commentary from Grandmaster Caz, Ice-T, Abiodun Oyewole (The Last Poets), Roxanne Shanté, Run-DMC, John Forté, will.i.am, MC Lyte, B-Real (Cypress Hill), Melle Mel, Fat Joe, Lupe Fiasco and more.
Developed by Chuck D and his producing partner Lorrie Boula, the series tells the story of Hip Hop as an “organic expression of experience that was unapologetic, fierce and empowering as it spoke truth to power and informed a nation through a different lens.”
The title itself, of course, is a reference to Public Enemy’s 1988 single “Fight The Power” from the group’s sophomore album It Takes A Nation of Millions … To Hold Us Back.
“The Hip Hop community has, from the start, been doing what the rest of media is only now catching up to,” Chuck D says. “Long before any conglomerate realized it was time to wake up, hip hop had been speaking out and telling truths.
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“Working with PBS and BBC is an opportunity to deliver these messages through new ways and help explain hip hop’s place in history and hopefully inspire us all to take it further.”
Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World will be available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video app, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO.
Chuck D is also preparing to release his first fine art book called Livin Loud in November. Check back with HipHopDX soon for a full interview with the Rhyme Animal in which he’ll discuss the book and more.
This is an error!!!….”Public Enemy’s 1988 single “Fight The Power” from the group’s sophomore album It Takes A Nation of Millions … To Hold Us Back.”……Please fix it!!!
****and we deleting people’s post pointing out flawed journalism??? smh
Sad, because hiphop nowadays is like “fight to keep them in power!” LOL. Prime example is Eminem… or rage against the machine. Em is everything he once made fun of. Rage against the machine is now rage WITH the machine.
The current state of hip hop is a complete joke all these artist are under the control of these corrupt record companies that promote nothing but negative images of black ppl being in a casket or prison.Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers said this years ago during Savior’s Day.
So sick off these old heads taking all the credit, they just started hiphop but 2pac made sure hiphop became international and changed the game and the world. Aint nobody talking about no fuucking Chuck D, ppl don’t know who these old moafuka is, he didn’t change SHIT! Thank you 2pac for everything!
So sick off these old heads taking all the credit, they just started hiphop but 2pac made sure hiphop became international and changed the game and the world. Aint nobody talking about no fuucking Chuck D, ppl don’t know who these old moafuka is, he didn’t change SHIT! Thank you 2pac for everything!
They took Pac under their wing they were doing concerts OVERSEAS how do you know nobody else knows about these great ppl.
Fight the Power is off Public Enemys third album Fear Of A Black Planet.