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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

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  • Status: Ended
  • First Aired: January 21, 2023
  • Seasons: 1
  • Episodes: 4
  • Networks: BBC Two
  • Genres: Documentary
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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World(2023)

TMDB Rating: 7.0 (4 votes)

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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Season 1 Poster

Season 1

4 episodes • 2023

#EpisodeAir DateRating
1The FoundationJan 21, 20230.0
2Under SiegeJan 21, 20230.0
3Culture WarsJan 28, 20230.0
4Still FightingJan 28, 20230.0

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