Public Enemy - Fight The Power

"Fight the power" single by Public Enemy from the album 'Do the Right Thing and Fear of a Black Planet' [1989]


1989 the number another summer (get down)
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got sould
(Brothers and sisters, hey)
Listen if you're missin' y'all
Swingin' while I'm singin'
Givin' whatcha gettin'
Knowin' what I know
While the Black bands sweatin'
And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
Got to give us what we want
Gotta give us what we need
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power

Chorus

As the rhythm designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that you've realized the prides arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
It's a start, a work of art
To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange
People, people we are the same
No we're not the same
Cause we don't know the game
What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
You say what is this?
My beloved lets get down to business
Mental self defensive fitness
(Yo) bum rush the show
You gotta go for what you know
Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say...
Fight the Power

Chorus

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother fuck him and John Wayne
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
(Get it) lets get this party started right
Right on, c'mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be

(Fight the Power)

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[AllColorsRbeautiful]

Peace to the world , but FIGHT THE POWER

[hammypoopsagain]

Saw Public Enemy last night on HBO at the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Damn those guys are still kicking ass!

[ConnorTod]

To be fair, at the time, I think revolting against the white man was necessary, considering the circumstances.

Were you even alive during the 80's?

[Eve jepsen]

aw shut up don't you have some sort of life other than replying to my comments? you are ignorant n and yourself unfamiliar with sarcasm, so don't preach to me about irony Bo...

[Eve jepsen]

you are an ignorant bastard. so i's really preferred if you just shut up-

[Rainbolt Asians]

Agreed

[Rainbolt Asians]

Oh my.. no wonder that comment got spammed. First off, I never said "it doesn't matter what happened in the past." Never. Of course it matters, we need to learn about history to make sure it never happens again. However, we should not be living in the past. You can't blame me for what other white people did in the past. It's not every white person's fault that slavery existed. And just to clarify, white people DO NOT have the "upper hand." It's more like the other way around, these days.

[Rainbolt Asians]

I do know what Dr. King said. I clearly knew more than what he was saying than some of the people commenting on this video. Martin Luther King Jr. was a conservative Christian (like me), therefore I agreed with what he stood for. I agreed with his values and beliefs.. unlike most people, who only like him because.. well I think you already know.

[Rainbolt Asians]

"don't make me kill you whitey".. well, there you go. A person who would say something like that, would love this video. A person who is completely oblivious to the real meaning of racism. You clearly can't see the irony of what you just wrote, so there is no point in even trying to explain how idiotic that comment was..

[vladimir ilich ulianov]

Respect to Public Enemy from Spain.

[MrMtdav]

public enemy are the fukin dons of the old school with wu tang :)