2020 BET Awards Open With Fiery ‘Fight the Power’ Remix
Chuck D, Nas, Black Thought & Rapsody -"Fight the Power" during the 2020 BET Awards.
With a long-overdue national reckoning over police brutality against Black Americans dominating the national conversation, the 2020 BET Awards opened on Sunday with a fiery, all-star 2020 remix of Public Enemy's classic anthem of outrage and activism,"Fight the Power." First, 12-year-old Keedron Bryant appeared in a solemn, affecting cold open to sing his viral"I Just Wanna Live" song a cappella. Then, the opening salvo of Public Enemy's iconictrack kicked in. Appearing separately given the coronavirus pandemic, PE's Chuck D and Flavor Flav rapped a smattering of iconic lines from"Fight the Power" in addition to opening it up for relevant, thought-provoking verses from Nas, Rapsody , Black Thought, PE 2.0's Jahi and YG.
"How many Tulsas have been burned down?" Nas asked in his verse, referring to the 1921 Tulsa race massacre scrubbed from plenty of history books."Once Central Park was a vibrant Black town," he continued, referring to the fact that the Manhattan park was built upon what was once known as Seneca Village, the first community founded by free Black Americans in New York City.
"Fight for Breonna Taylor and the pain of her mother," Rapsody demanded."Racism is a cancer, black thought is the answer," said the Roots' MC Black Thought in his verse Public Enemy's Chuck D joins forces with rappers Nas, Black Thought and Rapsody to perform the iconic anthem "Fight the Power."
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