It made the entire hip-hop community recognize its power. The Bomb Squad's Hank Shocklee told Rolling Stone in 2014: "I think it was Public Enemy's and Spike Lee's defining moment because it had awoken the Black community to a revolution that was akin to the Sixties revolution, where you had Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. It is part of the soundtrack of Spike Lee's iconic 1989 film "Do The Right Thing" and it is now considered the second greatest song ever created. "Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps," it told audiences, calling Elvis Presley "a hero to most" who "never meant s*** to me." "Fight the Power" is defiant, angry and rhythmic.
Songs like that come out in five minutes if I work on them more than, say, 20 minutes, they’re probably not going to work.In 2021, the song was ranked number 2 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list after ranking 322 in 2004."Fight the Power" became an anthem for an intellectual youth when it was released in 1989.Critics and publications have also praised "Fight the Power" as one of the greatest songs of all time. As soon as you start, you get that magic feeling, an extra feeling. It’s how a basketball player must feel when he starts hitting every shot, when you’re in that zone.
When I’m writing a song that I know is going to work, it’s a feeling of euphoria. That song had everything - different melodies, opera, R&B, rock - and it explored all of those different genres in an authentic way, where it felt natural. A great song has all the key elements - melody emotion a strong statement that becomes part of the lexicon and great production. It takes the emotions of a moment and holds it for years to come. When you hear a great song, you can think of where you were when you first heard it, the sounds, the smells. Click here for the new, updated 500 Greatest Songs list from 2021Ī great song doesn’t attempt to be anything - it just is.
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