Public Enemy

...was that it was a combination of two powerful influences of the 1980s and my formative years. It was when Spike Lee met Public Enemy on a movie set. The film spoke about pain, rage and sex, it was an extraordinary collision of everything I...

In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Pizza, New York, Jim Jarmusch, Brooklyn, NYU, Clive Owen, and Inside Man

...to conjure the specter of Radio Raheem. Raheem is the character in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing who walks around with a boombox constantly blasting Public Enemy's unfuckwithable "Fight the Power." Quite understandably, there are no songs...

In this article: Rising Down, The Roots, Radio Raheem, Fight the Power, Slant Magazine, Capitalism, Chrisette Michele, Talib Kweli, and Kanye West

...Ruby Dee as Da Mayor and Mother Sister, John Turturro as Pino -- and memorable music, a mix of jazz penned by Lee's father, Bill, and the Public Enemy song "Fight the Power." But perhaps the real reason people talk about "Do the Right Thing"...

In this article: Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, New York City, Roger Ebert, She's Gotta Have It, and Italian pizza

...June 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM When Do the Right Thing was released 20 years ago, a generation of black writers and intellectuals became instantly radicalized by Spike Lee and Public Enemy's vision of black America. Their fist-pumping black...

In this article: Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, Pizza, Father's Day, Chicago Tribune, Radio Raheem, Fight the Power, and Rodney King

...actually cuts into it, because they needed to keep the pizza intact for another day.) Public Enemy's Chuck D, who came up with the film's immortal anthem Fight the Power, talks about the pressure he felt when Lee assigned him to compose a...

In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Joaquin Phoenix, Blu-ray, Ernest Dickerson, DVD, Pizza, Cannes Film Festival, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, and James Gray

...this month. Spike Lee and Public Enemy (with the Fruit of Islam guards in tow) walked the streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with what seems like a thousand black youth walking alongside them and hanging out of apartment windows. The scene was...

In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Fight the Power, Rosie Perez, Brooklyn, New York City, Ivy League, Fruit of Islam, Lycra, and National Review

...were not welcome - not that year. The song for the summer of ' 89 for many young blacks was "Fight the Power," by Public Enemy, a hip-hop group known for politically charged lyrics of black empowerment. "Fight the Power" was the theme song...

In this article: Virginia Beach, Fight the Power, and Norfolk State University

Fight the Power "Fight the Power" is a 1989 song by hip hop group Public Enemy . First released on the soundtrack for the film Do the Right Thing (Rosie Perez dances to the song over the opening credits), an extended version was released in...

In this article: Fight the Power, VH1, Tito Ortiz, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Hip Hop, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

...Thing" films. The subplot involving a hooker played by Milla Jovovich is random, but the basketball parts are compelling - and the decision to use both Public Enemy and Aaron Copland in the soundtrack is so crazy that it works. (1998)

In this article: Rick Pitino, The Longest Yard, Sebastian Telfair, Michael J. Fox, Bull Durham, Western University, University of Louisville, ESPN, and William Gates