so one way to look at public enemy and fight the power as though they're speaking with the ancestors, james brown, and through sampling, they're bringing the ancestors to a new generation of african-americans. >> so here was this group in 1989 at a moment where african-americans are under assault again. saying, we've got the blueprint for how to fight this. and that bloublueprint is what happened in the '50s and 1960s. you've fought to fight power. we've got to stand up. we've got to present our bodies. >> part of the black freedom struggle has always been about thinking of this larger kind of redemption that was waiting for us. that we need to be ready, that we need to be prepared, and that we also need to make that change. >> every time change has come,