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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World (2023)

First aired January 21, 202359m/ep1 season · 4 epsEnded
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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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Chuck D

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Chuck D

Chuck D

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KRS-One

KRS-One

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Grandmaster Caz

Grandmaster Caz

Self

Melle Mel

Melle Mel

Self

Abiodun Oyewole

Abiodun Oyewole

Self

Nelson George

Nelson George

Self

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Self

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

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Lee Quiñones

Lee Quiñones

Self

Michael Holman

Michael Holman

Self

Douglas Colón

Douglas Colón

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Rosa Alicia Clemente

Rosa Alicia Clemente

Self

LL Cool J

LL Cool J

Self

Fat Joe

Fat Joe

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Sway Calloway

Sway Calloway

Self

Leah Wright Rigeur

Leah Wright Rigeur

Self

Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

English

Type

Documentary

Last Air Date

January 28, 2023

Networks

BBC Two

Production

BBC StudiosBBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

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