Anyone else digging the #FightThePower jam playing during the #Oscars credits? pic.twitter.com/rpUFTt72UV — SheKnows (@SheKnows) February 29, 2016 Public Enemy Sounds Off On The Use Of “Fight The Power” At The Oscars According to TMZ , Public Enemy isn’t too keen on The Academy using their legendary protest song “Fight The Power” as Chris Rock’s intro music . Group member Professor Griff tells us he thinks the Academy was just paying lip service to black protesters and will go right back to business as usual. Griff says Public Enemy is all about change — radical change — and the Academy’s efforts fly in the face of that. He adds, “The show can’t claim the blackness of Public Enemy’s message.” Chuck D also weighed in with a series of tweets, but he doesn’t seem as upset about it as Griff #EverybodyDoesntHateChris pic.twitter.com/gKTyuoABIM — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 He did add however… The song FightThe Power is beyond me & the crew.The point of the song is a call to making change eventually not just applauding the thought — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 I dont wanna hear about Oscars being white. Oscar been white. We have need black communities to support our ARTS as much as we do sports IMO — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 We protested the grammies in 1989 because they HAD zero catagory for the genre. A 10 yr music at the time. It was for the entire artform-duh — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 Art speaking. Fight The Power. Make change.Demand respect. Do your own awards RIGHT & give indie artists & actors a chance to make a LIVING — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 People spend more time talkin about StacyDash while NOT even knowing who JulieDash IS when they can look her up in their attached phones-smh — Chuck D (@MrChuckD) February 29, 2016 Sadly, Public Enemy doesn’t even own the rights to license their song, so there’s nothing they can really do about it anyway. Image via Twitter
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Fight The Power: Public Enemy Not Feeling The Academy’s Use Of Their Protest Song At The Oscar
