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Fight The Power (From "Do The Right Thing" Soundtrack)
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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Public Enemy
Public Enemy
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Eric Sadler
Eric Sadler
Composer
Carlton Ridenhour
Carlton Ridenhour
Composer
Keith Shocklee
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Composer

Lyrics

W-E-L-O-V-E 108 FM
1989
'89 the number, another summer
Get down
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hitting your heart 'cause I know you got soul
Brothers and sisters
Hey
Listen if you're missing, y'all
Swinging while I'm singing, giving whatcha getting
Hey
Knowing what I knowing while the black band's sweating
And the rhythm rhyme
Rolling
Gotta give us what we want (Uh)
Gotta give us what we need (Hey)
Our freedom of speech is freedom of death
We got to fight the powers that be (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
We got to fight the powers that be
As the rhythm's designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes designed to fill your mind
Now that you realize the pride's arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make you tough
From the heart, it's a start, a work of art
To revolutionize, make a change, nothing's strange
People, people
We all 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, let's get down to business
Mental self-defensive fitness
Bum rush the show
You got to go for what you know
To make everybody
See
In order to
Fight the powers that be
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
We gotta fight the powers that be
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)
Fight the power
We gotta fight the powers that be
Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me
As he's straight out racist, the sucker was simple and plain
Mother fuck him and John Wayne
'Cause I'm black and I'm proud
And I'm ready, I'm hyped, plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamp
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
Let's get this party started right
Right on
Come on
What we got to say? (Yeah)
Power to the people
No delay
Make everybody see in order to
Fight the powers that be
Fight the power (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all)
Fight the power (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all)
Fight the power (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all)
Fight the power (Yes, yes)
We gotta fight the powers that be
Written by: Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, Eric T. Sadler, Keith M. Boxley, James Henry Boxley

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