Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World Season 1 Episode 2 - Under Siege

Airdate: 2023-Jan-21

Episode summary:

Chuck D, alongside a host of hip-hop luminaries and cultural commentators, explores the genre's exponential growth in the 1980s as groups like Public Enemy and NWA were formed. It charts how the art form was able to speak truth to power during a period in US history that saw Reaganomics flourish, crack cocaine obliterate inner city communities and the black male body become a symbol of mass incarceration and rising homicide rates.

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 >