Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World - Season 1 - Eps 1: The Foundation
Discover the factors that led to the birth of Hip Hop and its first socially conscious hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982.
About Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Title: Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
First Air Date: 2023-01-21
Last Air Date: 2023-01-28
Status: Ended
Rating: 7/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 4
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: BBC Studios, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions
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.
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
