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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

2023

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World” is an incredible narrative of struggle, triumph and resistance.

Through the four-part series, we take you on a journey of Hip Hop’s importance and impact from the 70s through the Black Lives Matter uprising, in 2020. The show draws a straight line between many of your favorite Hip Hop songs and the socioeconomic, police brutality, and social justice issues they address. Featuring new interviews with artists: Fat Joe, Krs-1, Eminem, LL Cool J, Lee Quinones, Killer Mike, Monie Love, Mc Lyte, Warren G, Melle Mel, and activists: Rosa Clemente, Nelson George, Co-Produced with BBC Studios and PBS.