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‘Fight the Power’: The Story Behind Public Enemy’s Searing Classic

Summary by uDiscover Music
Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” may be the greatest second draft in the history of music. The anthem that anchored Spike Lee’s seminal Do The Right Thing, a film dedicated to racial animus on the hottest day in a Brooklyn summer, was originally supposed to be a Public Enemy-led jazz revamp of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Lee had composer Terrence Blanchard on deck, but Bomb Squad producer Hank Shocklee pushed back, in…
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uDiscover Music broke the news in on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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