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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.

2023 |1 Season  | 59m |  Documentary

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Chuck D

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KRS-One

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Grandmaster Caz

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Melle Mel

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Abiodun Oyewole

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Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

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Lee Quiñones

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Michael Holman

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LL Cool J

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Fat Joe

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Sway Calloway

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Al Sharpton

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Killer Mike

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Ice-T

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Jody Armour

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Monie Love

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Eminem

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B-Real

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Warren G

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Creator

Chuck D

Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

BBC Two