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“Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)“ is a 1975 protest funk song by The Isley Brothers, released on their T-Neck imprint. The anti-establishment song was originally thought of by Ernie Isley while the group was recording for another socially conscious song, “Harvest for the World”. Co-written with music by Ernie, baby brother Marvin and in-law Chris Jasper, when brought to the older Isleys, including lead singer Ronald, the frontman decided to change up the lyric in the bridge of the song where Ernie wrote And I roll with the punches/got knocked down on the ground by all this bullshit going down. It was actually Ronald who injected “bullshit” to the lyric while Ernie had originally written nonsense. When asked why he changed it, Ronald said “because that’s what everyone needed... Read on...