{"lc_classifications": ["ML3531 .D2 1997"], "title": "Fight the power", "subject_times": ["20th century"], "covers": [239212], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The 1990s have been filled with Black men being systematically ripped down and overexposed in the media like we're the worst criminals on the planet."}, "subject_places": ["United States"], "first_publish_date": "1997", "key": "/works/OL2682696W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL391721A"}}], "dewey_number": ["782.421649"], "subjects": ["Rap (Music)", "Race relations", "Popular culture", "History and criticism", "Hip-hop", "History", "Rap", "Popular culture, united states"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The 1990s have been filled with Black men being systematically ripped down and overexposed in the media like we're the worst criminals on the planet."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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.\n\nFight 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 our culture, and the heroes and victims it has created in its wake."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:13:18.769523"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-12T06:55:27.627569"}}