To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Spike Lee's groundbreaking "Do the Right Thing" will return to theaters in a new, 4K version on Sunday. However, the movie's influential anthem "Fight the Power," from Roosevelt, N.Y.'s Public Enemy, has never really gone away, only growing in stature over the past three decades.
"Fight the Power" has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It helped the album "Fear of a Black Planet" enter the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry and helped Public Enemy get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first year of eligibility.
It hit No. 1 on Billboard's Rap Singles chart. The Village Voice called it the best song of 1989. Rolling Stone named it one of the Top 10 greatest hip-hop songs ever. VH1 viewers said it is the greatest.
