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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

2023 · 1 season

An invigorating, archive-rich history lesson that pulses with the music and politics of its subject.

Created by
Chuck D
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Chuck D, KRS-One, Grandmaster Caz
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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Created by
Chuck D
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Chuck D, KRS-One, Grandmaster Caz
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • race
  • politics
  • class
  • art
  • music
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
Chuck D
Starring
Chuck D, KRS-One, Grandmaster Caz, Melle Mel, Abiodun Oyewole, Nelson George, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels
Music
Thomas Farnon
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 59 min each
Network
BBC Two
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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