Listening Post

Next year, this single -- one of the most powerful protest songs of my or any generation -- will turn 20 years old.

The first time I heard it, the sonic assault was like a kick to the chest -- and two decades later, it's lost none of its righteous fury. The damn song still gives me chills.

Long before hip-hop became little more than a goofy caricature, and long before Flavor Flav allowed himself to become the shameful cliché of undignified minstrelsy his bandmates once stood so strongly against, there was this:

The mighty Public Enemy, with Fight the Power.