Monday, September 28, 2020

Public Enemy - Fight The Power (2020 Remix) feat. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG & QuestLove (video, information, & lyrics)



Channel Zero, August 28, 2020

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about and a YouTube video of the 2020 remix of  Public Enemy's 1989 Hip Hop track "Fight The Power".

Lyrics for Public Enemy's "Fight The Power (2020 remix) " are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Public Enemy for their musical legacy. Thanks also to all the recording artists and musicians who are featured in this track and in this video. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/09/public-enemy-1989-hip-hop-track-fight.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Public Enemy - 1989 Hip Hop Track "Fight The Power" (video, information, lyrics, & comments)".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-isley-brothers-1975-song-fight.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "The Isley Brothers' 1975 Song - "Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 2" (with information, lyrics, & comments)"
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Pancocojams Editor's Note:
Because pancocojams is a family friendly blog, I usually don't showcase songs that include profanity. However, I've made an exception for this song because of its cultural significance. Although two curse words can still be heard in this embedded video, I've used amended spelling for those words in the lyrics that are given below.

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INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLIC ENEMY'S "FIGHT THE POWER" (2020 remix)
From https://genius.com/Public-enemy-fight-the-power-remix-2020-lyrics
"How was the remix first previewed?

On June 28, 2020, at the 2020 BET Awards, the remix of “Fight the Power” was fully teased as a video performance, featuring an acapella rendition of Keedron Bryant’s “I Just Wanna Live” as introduction.

[..]

Album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?

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Label: Def Jam Recordings & Enemy Records

Release Date: August 28, 2020

Samples: Fight the Power by Public Enemy

Interpolates: Changes by 2Pac (Ft. Talent)

I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To by The Soul Children (Ft. Jesse Jackson)

Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2) by The Isley Brothers"...


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LYRICS FOR FIGHT THE POWER (2020 remix) 

(written by Hank Shocklee, Eric Sadler, Keith Shocklee & Chuck D)

[Intro: Chuck D]

This is revolution sh&t*

Uh, yeah, c'mon and get down

Uh, yeah, c'mon and get down

Uh, yeah, hey

The year is 2020, the number

A little somethin' to get down

Sound of the funky drummer

Music hitting' the heart 'cause I know you got soul

Brothers and sisters

 

[Verse 1: Nas]

The Information Age

Got 'em seein' what's really wrong with these racist days

I honor the strong and pity the weak

Your thoughts run your life, be careful what you think

Haiti beat France, a century, seventeen

Salute Toussaint and Dessalines

And I do love France, know what I mean?

t's the system I'm talkin', nobody's agreein'

They say, "Suicide," when dead bodies are swingin'

Cowards are huntin' black men, that's what I'm seein'

How many toasters have been burnt down?

And once Central Park was a thrivin' black town

Yo, Chuck, I'm fightin' the power right now

Thank you, Flav and P-E, puttin' it down

Puttin' your life on the line so I could rap now

The next generation still singin', "Fight the Power"

 

[Chorus: Chuck D with Flava Flav]

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power, we got to fight the powers that be

 

[Verse 2: Rapsody]

Police think they reign 6ix9ine over the law (Yeah)

When they give us short sticks but we really need a long

To the boys in the hood, duckin' bullets and batons

From boys in the hood, triple Ks on they arm

Four fingers on my palm screamin', "Fight"

Change the policy, before I buy back our property

You love Black Panther but not Fred Hampton

Word to the Howards and the Aggies and the Hamptons

They book us, won't book us, I'm Booker

T. Washington, George killed, for twenty

Think about it (Think), that's two thousand pennies

The value of black life the cost of goin' to Wendy's

For a four-quarter burger, ended in murder

Fight for Breonna and the pain of her mother, gotta

 

[Chorus: Chuck D with Flava Flav]

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power, we got to fight the powers that be

[Verse 3: Black Thought]

Yeah, generations just how long we been at war

The revolution on all platforms

You break a man's mind in his back

Yo, solidarity is what I'm wearin' all black for

For comrades who done fought without me

It's not to try and change y'all thoughts about me

Or to redirect your reports about me

Dear white people, you should take a course about me

'Cause, is it the long ding-a-ling? Four-finger ring?

The sciences and the arts, the songs we can sing?

I really wanna know why y'all so scared

Prolly 'cause the promised land, we almost there

But look, I think of images that fuel my youth

Been influenced by Craig Hodges and Abdul-Rauf

Examples like Olympic, Black Power salutes

To Panther troops, I saw as I pursued my truth

If racism is the cancer, black thought's the answer

Gotta get up off the back porch, emancipate your minds

Get your bodies back from ransom (C'mon)

And all black hands up for the anthem

 

[Chorus: Chuck D with Flava Flav]

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power, we got to fight the powers that be

Yo, yo, check this out, man

Bring that beat back, man (Bring that beat back)

In two, three, four, hit it

 

[Verse 4: Jahi]

People, people, stronger than this evil

Smashin' your power structure, melanin royal, regal

System designed to kill and unprotect

Worldwide, hit the streets just to get some respect

Our fight and our rights for freedom will never wane

But justice Breonna Taylor, salute Chuck and Flava

Feel the same anger since Radio Raheem died

Black power to the people, push forward, pride

[Verse 5: YG]

Fight power like it's the opp, though

Born to fight, I made it off the block though

Thought he had a gun and he was black, that's the combo

The police killed George havin' a convo (George)

They killed Malcolm X, they killed Doctor King (Doctor King)

They gave us guns and dope, they wanna stop our kings

They tryna erase our history, stop and think

History class ain't tell us 'bout Juneteeth

Cops don't give a damn about a negro

Pull the trigger, kill a negro, he's a hero

Fuck livin' life on welfare, the last one who cared was Obamacare

Round twelve, nose kinda bloody, gotta keep fightin'

Trump flew to North Korea, they respect violence

If you ain't tryna have your city on fire

Put some respect on our name, we come from gold and diamonds

[Chorus: Chuck D with Flava Flav]

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Fight the power, we got to fight the powers that be

Yo, yo


[Verse 6: Chuck D]

Elvis was a hero to most

But he never meant shit to me you see

Straight up racist that sucker was

Simple and plain

Motherf--k him and John Wayne

'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud

I'm ready, I'm 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 four hundred 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) Let's get this party started right

Right on, c'mon

What we got to say

Power to the people no delay

Make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be


Online Source:  https://genius.com/Public-enemy-fight-the-power-remix-2020-lyrics

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