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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[SouljaAli810Flint]

Fight the Power = SOPA, NDAA, ROTHSCHILD ZIONIST, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

[Tackington]

What's with the hate for Caucasians? We're people just like you, right?

[Sykrex]

@XGONEWBSLAYER Last time I checked, us white people brought the black people to this country to be slaves only but now they want the same rights as us. That's perfectly fine, but I hate people who think it's "racist" to say anything bad about black people while they talk shit about us all the time without any consequences.

[XGONEWBSLAYER]

White's who put themselves above blacks are ignorant racists. Blacks who harbor hatred for oppressive whites and put themselves above because of it are stupid.

[enlightenment5]

' We can read your dreams!. We can make dreams for you! And we can fix your dreams!' the nefarious Caucasian pricks playing a one way_coward sadistic game on peoples in their beds!!! from their spyholes! Typical Caucasian bums coward hiding game.

[enlightenment5]

Guys!pick up a human physiology book!the greatest answer in the history of mankind lies there! Scour brain regions and the body sensory organs, and impact them with remote satellite ultramotion particle tracking mind and body technologies, you can amuse, abuse, extort and heist from a vulnerable body with no fire wall! A contraption by inferior lazy Caucasian culture, 6 decades in the making! Lazy rascals bums in their spyholes tinkering 24 hrs with other cultures hum zz.zz click..click THIEF!

[CheckM8King2]

@enlightenment5 That will never happen as long as blacks keep smokin' each other for a f**king pair of Jordan gym shoes!

[Godspart0n]

@GoatMaggot07 Correction: All people suck. (except for asians)

[shitonskyrim]

@TheCuljak Really you came here on a song about african americans fighting opresion just to be racist get a fucking life

[blakdog90]

@Tackington it's not about hatred of white people.........it's about maintaining our identity and legacy in a "strange" land.

[GoatMaggot07]

@GoatMaggot07 Actually neither of those since I looked up what pedantic means.

You can't deny that we suck.

[GoatMaggot07]

@asskickerone Yes, but still true.