Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World Season 1 Episode 1 - The Foundation

Airdate: 2023-Jan-21

Episode summary:

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.

About Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World series:

Chuck D of Public Enemy explores Hip Hop's political awakening over the last 50 years. With a host of rap stars and cultural commentators he t...Show more >