Fight the Power : Rolling Stone

Written by: Chuck D, Eric Sadler, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee
Produced by: Sadler, Hank Shocklee
Released: June '89 on Def Jam
Charts: Did not chart

The opening credits of Spike Lee's 1989 Do the Right Thing feature a masterpiece from the Bomb Squad production team: a dissonant call to revolution, with a title borrowed from an Isley Brothers funk hit and a groove lifted from the JB's' 1972 B side "Hot Pants Road." Public Enemy direct their rage at Elvis Presley, John Wayne and, er, Bobby McFerrin.

Appears on: Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam)

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