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Mickey Z
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Elvis was a hero to most...
I stole this little item from Peter (the other): What song was #1 (in the U.S.) on the day you were born?
On my b’day, it was “Stuck on You” by Elvis the Pelvis. This factoid inspired me to post the following excerpt from 50AR:
“Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant shit to me
A straight up racist, that sucker was/Simple and plain
Mother#### him and John Wayne”
—“Fight the Power,” Public Enemy, 1989
“Although it never cracked the Top 40, Public Enemy’s ‘Fight the Power’ became the soundtrack to 1989’s summer of rage” writes Johnny Black in the Blender. “That year, director Spike Lee released Do the Right Thing, a movie he wrote to portray the violence of the time — particularly the often fatal clashes between African-Americans and the New York Police Department.”
The opening credits rolled, Rosie Perez danced, “Fight the Power" blared, and political hip-hop was now in everyone’s face. “I didn’t want to rap about ‘I’m this or I’m that’ all the time,” explains PE’s Chuck D. “My focus was not on boasting about myself or battling brothers on the microphone. I wanted to rap about battling institutions, and bringing the condition of black people worldwide to a respectable level.”
(To read the complete excerpt, click on “more” below)
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