Public Enemy - Fight The Power (2020 Remix) feat. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG & QuestLove

What this video is

Released during the summer of 2020, at the height of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, this video functions as a direct-action media artifact. Public Enemy's original 1989 anthem — itself born from Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the era of Rodney King, crack-era policing, and rap's political awakening — is deliberately…

Why it matters

A landmark document of 2020-era protest rap, this remix demonstrates the genre's capacity for recursive political relevance — reactivating canonical material with new verses and contemporary protest imagery. It represents a defining moment where hip-hop's oldest political voices merged with its…