EndedBBC Two2023-01-21

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

Name: Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-01-21
Rating: 7
Cast: Chuck D, KRS-One, Grandmaster Caz, Melle Mel, Abiodun Oyewole

Documentary~59 min

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BBC Two

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First aired

2023-01-21

Last aired

2023-01-28

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Rating

7.0 / 10

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Synopsis and details

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.