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Public Enemy - Fight The Power [1990] (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ignore my brief pedantry: "90s??? I mean, it literally starts with them shouting 1989!" 😁

My first experience with this song was going to the cinema to watch Do the Right Thing and being blasted into my seat by Rosie Pérez shaking it to this track as the opening title sequence.

Here it is (turn up the volume, go full screen): https://youtu.be/739XYgoA-x8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The album Fear Of A Black Planet from which this single comes, was released in 1990. The single, and obviously the recording were from. 1989.

The sidebar in this /c specifically states:

Submissions must be from the 90s (1990 - 1999) based on either recorded or release date. e.g. if it was recorded in 1999 but released in 2000, we’re not going to split hairs over that;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Footnotes version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5VGDEab0_0

Talking about the music video concept and direction by Spike Lee, and some background for the movie Do The Right Thing for which this was the opening theme.