Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
7.6
2023
Documentary
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.
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- Cast：
- Chuck D , KRS-One , Grandmaster Caz , Melle Mel , Abiodun Oyewole , Darryl McDaniels , Lee Quiñones , Michael Holman , LL Cool J , Fat Joe
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EP1 - The Foundation
January. 21,2023
Discover the factors that led to the birth of Hip Hop and its first socially conscious hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982.
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EP2 - Under Siege
January. 21,2023
Explore the 1980s and the birth of Hip Hop as social commentary in the Reagan Era with the emergence of artists like Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice-T, and NWA.
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