Fight The Power Lyrics - Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

1989 the number another summer (get down) 

Sound of the funky drummer 

Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got soul 

(Brothers and sisters, hey) 

Listen if you're missin' y'all 

Swingin' while I'm singin' 

Givin' whatcha gettin' 

Knowin' what I know 

While the Black bands sweatin' 

And the rhythm rhymes rollin' 

Got to give us what we want 

Gotta give us what we need 

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death 

We got to fight the powers that be 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

We've got to fight the powers that be 

As the rhythm designed to bounce 

What counts is that the rhymes 

Designed to fill your mind 

Now that you've realized the prides arrived 

We got to pump the stuff to make us tough 

From the heart 

It's a start, a work of art 

To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange 

People, people we are 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 lets get down to business 

Mental self defensive fitness 

(Yo) bum rush the show 

You gotta go for what you know 

Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the Power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

Lemme hear you say 

Fight the power 

We've got to fight the powers that be 

Elvis was a hero to most 

But he never meant, to me you see 

Straight up racist that sucker was 

Simple and plain 

Mother, him and John Wayne 

'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud 

I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped 

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps 

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) lets get this party started right 

Right on, c'mon 

What we got to say 

Power to the people no delay 

To make everybody see 

In order to fight the powers that be 

(Fight the power)