Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

Overview

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

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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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Nelson George

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Hasan Kwame Jeffries

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Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

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Lee Quiñones

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Michael Holman

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Douglas Colón

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Rosa Alicia Clemente

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LL Cool J

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Fat Joe

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Sway Calloway

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Leah Wright Rigeur

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John Forte

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Al Sharpton

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Kaye Whitehead

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Killer Mike

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