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Follow the evolution of Hip Hop as its artists turn into multimillionaires and successful entrepreneurs. As a cultural phenomenon, Hip Hop continues to change history and is adopted as the voice of protest around the world.
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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World | Still Fighting
In the series finale, Chuck D and star rappers share how a powerful Hip Hop industry leveraged its muscle in the new millennium. KRS-One points out that, despite the immense riches of the new ‘bling’ era artists, African American communities were still largely disenfranchised. The 9/11 attacks and America’s invasion of Iraq jolt the world order, and Will.i.am recalls how The Black Eyed Peas’ song ‘Where Is the Love’ called out the devastating impact of the war.
In 2005 the devastation of Hurricane Katrina saw Hip Hop artists provide help after woeful inaction by Bush’s government. They step in again in 2008, supporting Presidential candidate Barak Obama. As Killer Mike puts it, having Puff Daddy and Jay-Z backing Obama was comparable to having the Beatles campaigning for you.
The shine of Obama as the first Black President fades with a series of tragic killings of African Americans, which launches the explosive rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Hip Hop becomes the soundtrack to the struggle with Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Alright’ becoming a stirring anthem. After Donald Trump won the 45th Presidency, Fat Joe and Eminem recall how Hip Hop responds to divisiveness and Eminem risks it all to write his searing condemnation “The Storm”.
The shocking murder of George Floyd propels BLM protests onto a global stage. Hip Hop artists voice their feelings, including Chuck himself, with a re-working of his iconic Fight the Power.
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Tampa Florida in this bih !!!
50 years of hip hop !!!
Grammy performance was well done !!!
Sound Field Sent me: 🎵🎶🎵
Also, yall should make a playlist of the songs used in the Fight The Power series!🐈⬛🐾🐾🐾
The worst emergency room I ever been to was in the Bronx, they push all the poor people in NYC to the Bronx.
Where is the Love classic track
52:30 🧢🧢🧢 and a shameless plug. Lil Baby – Bigger Picture was the hip hop theme of BLM at that time
50:54 no that's not true. Occupy Wall Street did it first and was larger and for a longer period of time. BLM turned out to be just grandstanding and posturing with little substantive to show for it
43:37 1)Eminem fandom took a drastic decline after this which shows what they value more 2)people like to have trump as the bad guy to point a finger at when the problem is systemic racism white supremacy, which has existed long before and since him. He was just one of the latest iterations of many
39:56 these were the same folks who were waiting in the wings since the Tea Party movement. Folks just weren't paying attention
And JayZ was backing Hillary so he showed himself still stuck on the left-right paradigm
36:44 we gon be alright is just a remix of " hope for change you can believe in"
But hope without works is just a wish
All them rappers did during Obama's presidency was take selfies at the White House
33:43 even before then Obama shut down the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2012
Bernie Sanders warned us 🇺🇸
This is a must see for all fans of Hip Hop………
Quality content! Thank you 🙏🏽
This mumble rap of today is of code to the founders of hip hop…There's no message in it to be understood just pure ignorance.
If Obama would have done what he knew was right for us #FBA=FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS TRUMP would not have came into power.Becsuse those few black folks that vote for him took him over the top.But if Obama would have gave us reparations we would have been financially able to put our own FBA candidate into office
Obama was what they gave us the real powers that be,but as a black man who is of #FBA=FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN ANCESTRY he was not what we needed,so the next black man has to be of our FDA ancestry.And he must be on code with our fight for reparations and once we get our reparations, then and only then will America become great…
Uncle Ruckus's presence on the scene and his vocal interaction with George Floyd, emboldened the police. He spent the entire time essentially telling George "that's what you get," as if compliance as he knew it would have saved George's life that day.
"Obama scares me." You're lucky we didn't turn out for Sharpton in 2004!
This series is phenomenal
Unfortunately, Donald Trump was the first Hip-Hop President but that's a different story 🤣
George Floyd Was My Homeboy From Thirdward Houston Texas Before He Move To Minnesota He Was Doing Security At This Club Call Diallos We Was Talking I Just Got Back From Akron Ohio So We Was Talking He Told Me He Moving To Minnesota I Told Him He Shouldn't Move There It's To Cold There He Said Getting Outta Houston Texas Back In 2018 😢😢 I Been Knowing George Floyd Since 1998 Rest In Peace George Floyd
The Government Blow Them Building Up In New York September 11 2001
Dead pres real cool down to earth Brothas
Great documentary. Thank you for this wisdom and knowledge I have a great understanding of.
With the deepest appreciation and respect for those who made this truth to power. Plutocracy and oligarchy are what we have now. Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., " I have a dream."
May we all understand and continue his dream with non-violence plans of strategic actions and with a moral compass
24:30 the naivety of Chuck D to not know Obama was selected long before he was elected; that's why he was invited to Bilderberg in 2007
22:30 the old black political naivety. Sway using people of color and black interchangeably. Puffy focusing on color and not policy; all skinfolk not kinfolk. Obama doesn't come from the legacy of America that is to say a descendant of formerly enslaved foundational Blacks. And lastly he did not for Black people except put on a facade meanwhile rappers like Diddy and Sway made no demands of his administration just a bunch of photo ops
16:03 nah eminem has never really accurately addressed the pathologies of white culture and systemic racism white supremacy
11:41 disagree with William take on defining racism, tribalism or ethnocentrism perhaps but definitely not racism
42:45 I liked that old school Em line where he said "Hillary Clinton tried to slap me and call me a pervert, I ripped her f***in' tonsils out and fed her sherbert." That was funny.
Where are the Episodes about Hip Hop influences in foreign countries (Brazil, UK, South Africa, Jamaica, France, etc.)? Don't leave us hanging. Hip Hop has had as much impact in these countries as it did in the US.
Thank you PBS. Nice to be reminded of this history. There is one aspect of hip hop missed, hence there should be a 5th episode which would more fully cover 'How Hip Hop Changed the World'. How hip hop (another unique music form from America like Jazz, Blues, R&B, Country) has been taken up in other countries (Africa, India, Asia, Latin America, Europe). What does it sound like and how those countries utilize hip hop – for entertainment or political purposes.
I remember passing through N.O. during Katrina, and in Atlanta, Richard Prior was on TV., people putting couches on buses, kanye cracking voice “Bush don’t care about black people” soft, like it was forced, not a man’s voice. Obama, so disappointed, then I learned Castro wouldn’t even meet with him, now I understand.
And looking out for your own people is not the core of racism, it’s hating peoples who look different for no sensible reason. Period.
Having a black president brought out all the racist trolls, absolutely sickening. Tupac's "I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto" from the 90s still rung true in 2012 and now in 2023. Sad..
Thank you!
Yet nothing has changed.
Rich still boning the poor.
But dang if this isnt a dope documentary.
“Take the fact that he was a black and man out of it and understood that this can happen to any United States citizen once another citizen is given power by the state and a uniform 47:30.” – Killer Mike
Well curated, historical, political documentary. Long live PBS!
Wenomechainsama
Salute!!!
I have a healthy critique. This has been well done as tour through black life from the perceptive of hip hop culture from its inception to now. One issue is every win is framed as “hip hop did it” and every struggle as “hip hop got us through it” as if none of these regular black folk we’re seeing in montage ever listened to any r&b, jazz, reggae, club music, blues, funk, rock, even country, or ESPECIALLY gospel. I can assure you the common genre among the black folks that played the major difference in voting in Obama was gospel, not quite hip hop. Same thing with Biden. Even then, we can’t say “gospel music did this” and “gospel music did that.” Black Americans did it, in all of our diverse, non-monolithic flavors.
This series was so well done, I couldn't be more proud of of PBS than I am right now. Thank you.
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