Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

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.

Cast

Chuck D

Self

KRS-One

Self

Grandmaster Caz

Self

Melle Mel

Self

Abiodun Oyewole

Self

Nelson George

Self

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Self

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

Self [RUN-D.M.C]

Lee Quiñones

Self

Michael Holman

Self

Douglas Colón

Self

Rosa Alicia Clemente

Self

LL Cool J

Self

Fat Joe

Self

Sway Calloway

Self

Leah Wright Rigeur

Self

John Forte

Self

Al Sharpton

Self

Kaye Whitehead

Self

Killer Mike

Self

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