Public Enemy "Fight the Power" 12" OOP Flavor Flav Chuck D NM in Shrink
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Public Enemy "Fight the Power" 12" Motown Records MOT-4647 (US)
Record is NM, Jacket is NM in shrink!
with Hype Sticker
Out of Print!
Original Press!
Track Listing:
AFight The Power (Extended Version) 6:45
B1
Fight The Power (Radio Edit) 3:33
B2
Fight The Power (Flavor Flav Meets Spike Lee) 4:36
"Fight the Power" is a single by American hip hop group Public Enemy. It was conceived at the request of film director Spike Lee, who sought a musical theme for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. First released on the film's 1989 soundtrack, a different version was released on Public Enemy's third studio album, Fear of a Black Planet (1990). The song incorporates various samples and allusions to African-American culture, including civil rights exhortations, black church services, and the music of James Brown.
As a single, it reached number one on Hot Rap Singles and number 20 on the Hot R&B Singles. "Fight the Power" was named the best single of 1989 by The Village Voice in their Pazz & Jop critics' poll. It has been accoladed as one of the greatest songs of all-time by critics and publications. In 2001, the song was ranked number 288 in the "Songs of the Century" list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 1988, film director Spike Lee approached Public Enemy, after the release of their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, with the proposition of making a song for one of his movies. Lee, who was directing his movie Do the Right Thing, sought to use the song as a leitmotif in a film about racial tension in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
On writing most of the song, Chuck D, the group's lead MC, later said, "I wanted to have sorta like the same theme as the original 'Fight the Power' by The Isley Brothers and fill it in with some kind of modernist views of what our surroundings were at that particular time". The group's bass player Brian Hardgroove has said of the song's message, "Law enforcement is necessary. As a species we haven’t evolved past needing that. Fight the Power is not about fighting authority—it’s not that at all. It’s about fighting abuse of power."
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