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b'Forty years ago, Chuck D showed listeners how exciting, radical, and unpredictable hip-hop could be. His song \\u201cFight the Power\\u201d became a protest anthem for a generation, and a Greek chorus in Spike Lee\\u2019s film \\u201cDo the Right Thing.\\u201d The Public Enemy front man talks with the staff writer\\xa0Kelefa Sanneh\\xa0about his life in music. \\u201cI wanted to curate, present, navigate, teach, and lead the hip-hop art, making it something that people would revere,\\u201d he says. Now, at sixty-two, Chuck D is an elder statesman of his genre, and also a critic of it and some of its more commercial impulses. His latest project is a four-part documentary, \\u201cFight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World,\\u201d which is airing now on PBS. \\u201cI\\u2019ve been to one hundred sixteen countries over thirty-eight years, so I\\u2019ve seen the changes,\\u201d he says. \\u201cPeople have made their way to me to say, \\u2018Chuck, this is what this art form has meant to me,\\u2019 in all continents except for Antarctica.\\u201d'