Comment by Random0532 The achievement requires you to kill the following rares: Maniacal MadgardThis big brute will use Maniacal, which means he'll attack random people (even healers). "[9], On August 24, 2014, Chuck D posted a photo on his Twitter profile of a cassette tape from the Green St. studio. March 9, 2014. Fight the Power: Greatest Hits Live!, a 2007 live album by Public Enemy "Fight the Power", a 2008 episode of DeGrassi: The Next Generation from its eighth season; ECW Fight the Power, a 1996 professional wrestling event. In 1988, shortly after the release of their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy were preparing for the European leg of the Run's House tour with RunD.M.C. Fight the power! "Fight the Power" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released as a single in the summer of 1989 on Motown Records. 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