
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
TV-142023–2023·Ended·1 Seasons·4 Episodes·60 min·BBC Two·Saturday · 21:00
Studio: BBC Studios, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions
TMDb7.0
🇬🇧DOCUMENTARY
UK
English · Documentary
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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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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Keywords
hip-hoppop cultureamerican culture
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Added: 5/14/2026Updated: 6/2/2026









