{"id":3547291,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3547291/?format=json","airdate":"2025-08-31T19:44:57-07:00","show":64439,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64439/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/b1ec7150-bfd2-4dc2-b7c3-8a82826acc29/14823271238-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/b1ec7150-bfd2-4dc2-b7c3-8a82826acc29/14823271238-250.jpg","song":"Fight the Power","track_id":null,"recording_id":"3ea3f893-35ef-4f19-b183-26eddf1eb2ef","artist":"Public Enemy","artist_ids":["bf2e15d0-4b77-469e-bfb4-f8414415baca"],"album":"Fear of a Black Planet","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"13cf2244-c850-304d-bc46-b30e3f10e0cc","labels":["Def Jam Recordings"],"label_ids":["a92d1684-4edb-48aa-b913-30e9da213004"],"release_date":"1990-03-20","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"By request from Tony on the Big Island!\n\n“Fight the Power” is the twentieth track from Long Island, NY hip-hop group Public Enemy’s third studio album “Fear of a Black Planet”, released in 1990.\n\n“Fight the Power” comes from director Spike Lee approaching Public Enemy and asking them to create a song for one of his upcoming films: “Do the Right Thing”. The track was meant to be used as a leitmotif (a short constantly reoccurring musical phrase – usually associated with a person or place) in the film about racial tension in Brooklyn, New York. In an interview with Time magazine in 1990, Lee spoke about his decision to contact Public Enemy: “I wanted it to be defiant, I wanted it to be angry, I wanted it to be very rhythmic. I thought right away of Public Enemy”.\nhttps://bit.ly/2DqROWN","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}