Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

The read

The series ran 1 season across 4 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Thomas FarnonOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Chuck DSelf
• KRS-OneSelf
• Grandmaster CazSelf
• Melle MelSelf
• Abiodun OyewoleSelf
• Nelson GeorgeSelf
• Hasan Kwame JeffriesSelf
• Darryl 'DMC' McDanielsSelf [RUN-D.M.C]
• Lee QuiñonesSelf
• Michael HolmanSelf
• Douglas ColónSelf
• Rosa Alicia ClementeSelf

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