Fight The Power: Remix 2020

Fight The Power: Remix 2020 (Explicit) - Public Enemy/Nas/Rapsody/Black Thought/Jahi/YG/Questlove

Lyrics by：Carlton Ridenhour/Eric T. Sadler/Hank Shocklee/Keith Shocklee

Composed by：Carlton Ridenhour/Eric T. Sadler/Hank Shocklee/Keith Shocklee

Chuck D：

This is revolution s**t

Uh yeah c'mon and get down

Uh yeah c'mon and get down

Uh yeah hey

The year is 2020 the number

Another summer get down

Sound of the funky drummer

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

Brothers and sisters

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

It'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 Tulsas have been burnt down

And once Central Park was a thrivin' black town

Yo Chuck I'm fightin' the power right now

Thanks to 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"

Chuck D/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

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"

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

Chuck D/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

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

Chuck D/Flava Flav：

Fight the power

Fight the power

Yo yo check this out man

Bring that beat back man

Bring that beat back

In two three four hit it

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 waver

But justice Breonna Taylor salute Chuck and Flava

Feel the same anger since Radio Raheem died

Black power to the people push forward pride

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 d**e 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 d**n about a negro

Pull the trigger kill a negro he's a hero

F**k 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

Chuck D/Flava Flav：

Fight the power

Fight the power

Fight the power we got to fight the powers that be

Yo yo

Elvis was a hero to most

But he never meant s**t 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

D**n 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