Fight the Power [Do the Right Thing]
Public Enemy

1989 the number another summer (get down)
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got soul
(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
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power

Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power

Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
We've got to fight the powers that be

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

Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power

Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power

Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
We've got to fight the powers that be

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant, to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother, 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 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) 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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  ...And No One Broadcasted Louder Than..(Intro)   ...Everything   \   1 ( PEace )   1 Million Bottlebags   2 ( resPEct)   31 flavors   41: 19   41:19   54321 Boom   54321...Boom   66.6 Strikes Again   911 Is a Joke   A Letter to the New York Post   A Letter To The NY Post   Ain'tnuttin Buttersong   Aintnuttin Buttersong   Air Conditioning   Air Conditioning Listen Listen   Air Conditioning (Revisited)   Air Hoodlum   Ali Rap Theme   And No One Broadcasted Louder Than... (Intro)   Anti - Nigger Machine   Anti-Nigger Machine   As Long As The People Got Somethin’ To Say   As Long as the People Got Something to Say   B Side Wins Again   B Side Wins Again [Scattershot Remix]   Bedlam 13: 13   Bedlam 13:13   Beyond Trayvon   Black Is Back   Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos   Black steel in the hourdo you wanna go our way   Bring Tha Noise   Bring tha Noise [Version]   Bring tha Noize   Bring Tha Noize (with Anthrax)   Bring That Beat Back   Bring That Beat Back [Back to the Breakbeats Mixx]   Bring The Noise   Bring the Noise [Acappella]   Bring the Noise [Pump-Kin Instrumental] [Remix][In...   Bring the Noise Remix [Instrumental]   Bring the Noise Remix [Instrumental]   Bring The Noise(Anthrax)   Broke Diva   Brothers Gonna Work It Out   Burn Hollywood Burn   By the Time I Get to Arizona   By the Time I Get to Arizona [Album Version]   By the Time I Get to Arizona [the Moleman Mix]   By the Time I Get to Arizona [The Moleman Mixx]   Can You Hear Me Now   Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man   Can't Truss It   Cant Truss It   Catch The Thrown   Caught, Can I Get A Witness   Caught, Can We Get a Witness   Caught, Can We Get a Witness?   Check What You're Listening To   Check What You’re Listening To   Cold Lampin With Flavor   Cold Lampin' With Flavor   Contract On The World Love Jam   Contract on the World Love Jam [Instrumental]   Corplantationopoly   Countdown To Armageddon   Countdown to Armageddon [*]   Countdown to Armageddon [DVD]   Crash   Crayola   Dark Side Of The Wall 2000   Dark Side of the Wall: 2000   Death Of A Carjacka   Do You Wanna Go Our Way   Do You Wanna Go Our Way?   Do You Wanna Go Our Way???   Do You Wanna Go Our Way??? (Live At The Fillmore 2...   Don't Believe The Hype   Don't Believe The Hype   Dont Give Up The Fight   Donu2019t Believe the Hype   Earthizen   Either We Together Or We Ain’t   Either You Get It By Now Or You Don’t   Electric Slave   Escapism   Eve of Destruction   Everything   Fame   FassFood   Fear Of A Black Planet   Field Nigga Boogie (XLR8R Remix)   Fight The Power   Fight The Power - Live   Fight the Power (Soul Power u2013 Who Stole This S...   Fight The Power (Soundtrack Version)   Fight the Power [Album Version][Edit]   Fight the Power [DVD]   Fight the Power [Edited Album Version][Version]   Fight the Power [Extended Version][*]   Fight the Power [Flavor Flav Meets Spike Lee]   Fight the Power [Live Winterthur, Switzerland]   Fight the Power [Powersax][*]   Fight the Power [Soundtrack Version]   Fight the power soul power u2013 who stole this so...   Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Da   Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Da...   Final Count of the Collison Between Us and the Dam...   First The Sheep Next The Shepherd   First The Sheep Next The Shepherd?   Flavor Flav Cold Lampin'   Frankenstar   Game Face   Game Face   Get it In   Get Off My Back   Get the F... 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P. E.   M.P.E.   Make It Hardcore   Makes You Blind   Man Plans God Laughs   Me To We   Meet The G That Killed Me   Megablast   Megablast (The Madd Skillz Bass Pipe Gett Off Remi...   Mind Deep [#][Instrumental]   Mind Terrorist   Mine Again   Miuzi Weighs A Ton   Miuzi Weighs a Ton [Live]   MKLVFKWR   MKLVFKWR (“Make Love, Fuck War”)   MKLVFKWR (Put Your Hands In The Air)   More News at 11   More News at 11 [Extended Gary G-Wiz Mega Bomb]   Most of My Heroes Still..   Move!   New Whirl Odor   Night of the Living Baseheads   Nighttrain   Nighttrain [Album Version]   Nighttrain [Instrumental]   Nighttrain [Instrumental]   Nighttrain [Peter Rock String Isalnd Mt. Vernon Me...   No Sympathy from the Devil   Notice (Know This)   Now A Daze   Paid   Party for Your Right to Fight   Party for Your Right to Fight (Blak Wax Metromixx)   Pesa #1   Pesa #2   Plastic Nation   Politics of the Sneaker Pimps   Pollywanacraka   Power To The People   Praise The Loud   Preachin' to the Quiet   Preaching To The Quiet   Prophets Of Rage   Public Enemy #1   Public Enemy No. 1   Public Enemy No. 1 [Jeronimo Punx Redu]   Public Enemy No.1   Pump The Music, Pump The Sound   Pump The MusicPump The Sound   Put It Up   Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)   Race Against Time   Rage Against Time   Raise The Roof   Raw Shit   Rebel Without a Pause   Rebel Without a Pause [*]   Rebel Without a Pause [DVD][Live]   Rebel Without a Pause [Live]   Rebel Without a Pause [Vocal Version]   Rebirth   Rebirth Of A Nation (eaturing Professor Griff   Reggie Jax   Resurrection   Revelation 33 1/3 Revolutions   Revolution   Revolutionary Generation   Revolverlution   Rightstarter   Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man)   Riotstarted   Rise   Rise   RLTK   Run Til Its Dark   Say It Like It Really Is   See Something, Say Something   Sex, Drugs & Violence   Shake Yo Booty   Shake Your Booty   She Watch Channel Zero?!   Show ‘Em Watcha Got   Show em whatcha got   Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely   Shut Em Down   Shut Em Down (Live in the UK)   Shut Em Down (Pete Rock) Remix   Shut Em Down (remix)   Shut Em Down [Album Version]   Shut Em Down [DVD]   Shut Em Down [Pete Rock Mix]   Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version]   So Whatcha Gone Do Now?   Son of a Bush   Sophisticated Bitch   Stop In The Name...   Sudden Death (Interlude)   Super Agent   Super Agent   Super Agent... 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