Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality - Tapa dura

The leader of the rap band, Public Enemy, and a pioneer of the musical genre offers his views on such subjects as self-empowerment in the African-American community, the effect of rap lyrics on youth, and Hollywood's images of blacks. Tour.

His lyrics are a lesson in history.
His songs are a movement in groove theory.
His book is a light out of the dark that will change the way you think about America and the world as a whole.

From Rap to Hip-Hop, Gangsta to Trip-Hop, Chuck D, his Bomb Squad, and his monumental band, Public Enemy, have been a sonic, singular, and transcendental force in modern music.  As a poet and philosopher, Chuck D has been the hard rhymer, rolling anthems off his tongue in an era of apathy, tapping into the youth culture of the world for more than a decade.

Fight the Power, his first book, part memoir, part treatise, part State of the Union Address, is a testament to his nearly twenty years in the music business and his experiences around the world.  Here is a history of one of the most important and controversial musical movements of our century, its impact on modern culture, and the heroes and victims it has created in its wake.

Chuck D has never been just a rapper.  He's an artist, a rock 'n' roll star who's shared the spotlight with everyone from U2 to Anthrax.  He's fought to bridge the gap between musical genres and cultural differences.  He is truly the voice of a generation.

Startling, gripping, and uncompromising, Fight the Power is most of all the story of one man's struggle to bring about change in this difficult world at all costs.  It is certain to take its place among the classics of African American experience.