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Public Enemy

Fight the Power

1989 · via Public Enemy

Public Enemy’s 1989 recording of “Fight the Power” is the earliest release on file. Chuck D, Eric Sadler and Keith Shocklee are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Barenaked Ladies (released 1991), Prince (released 2000) and Vanilla Ice (released 2008), among 50 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Public Enemy – Fight the Power
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Chuck D, Eric Sadler and Keith Shocklee wrote it as Public Enemy's own fight song, and by 2000 Prince had stepped up to the mic with it too. Play the source, then hear what he made of it.

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Credited writers: Chuck D, Eric Sadler and Keith Shocklee.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1989.

Other recordings on file · first release year

50 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Chuck D wrote Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" with Eric Sadler and Keith Shocklee. Which artist later cut his own recording of it?Prince
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