dead prez a sound track for revolutionising the street.
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US and European ships invade Somali water space without welcome, many times even dumping nuclear waste in their waters and then have the nerve to call the Somalians "pirates". Tell the TRUTH and SHAME the devil. Two musicians - Stic.man and M-1 - make up Dead Prez. In 1990 M-1 signed up at FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) and that's where he met Stic.man. They became friends immediately. M-1 found out about the Black Panthers movement there and enthusiastically joined up. He stopped studying and spent the next three years as a militant. Stic.man carried on studying agricultural engineering at university and thanks to a lot of confrontations in the street learnt a lot about law and rights. M-1 got burnt out after 3 years as a militant and so he got in touch with stic.man to make him a proposal. He suggested they start a project combining the music they loved so much and political and social militancy. That's how Dead Prez was formed.
In terms of musical style, they do crude hip-hop and dirty underground. Racism, social critique, government hypocrisy, media manipulation and the frivolity of the hip-hop world stand out in their lyrics. Lyrically, they're Malcolm X and the Black Panthers' poor grandchildren. In musical terms they're the children of Public Enemy, although their arrangements are special and original, probably because they work with other musicians on a regular basis.
Their first long work was Let's Get Free (2000). David Chapelle used their song Hip Hop as his tv show's theme tune and it was a huge success. In 2001 they brought out Get Up in collaboration with The Coup. A year later they brought out Turn Off The Radio Volume 1 and then Get Free Or Die Tryin Mixtape Volume 2. In 2004 the controversial Revolutionary But Gangsta came out. As their record titles say, up to now they're criticised dirty gansta without stopping being revolutionaries. They didn't bring anything new out until they got together with Outlawz to record Can't Sell Dope Forever (2006). And now, once more, they've shown that they like to work with other artists. They've brought out Pulse Of The People" Turn Off The Volume Vol 3 with DJ Green Lantern. We've had the chance to listen to an advance on the Internet and, in spite of the title, their creativity is still a long way from turning itself off.
US and European ships invade Somali water space without welcome, many times even dumping nuclear waste in their waters and then have the nerve to call the Somalians "pirates". Tell the TRUTH and SHAME the devil. Two musicians - Stic.man and M-1 - make up Dead Prez. In 1990 M-1 signed up at FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) and that's where he met Stic.man. They became friends immediately. M-1 found out about the Black Panthers movement there and enthusiastically joined up. He stopped studying and spent the next three years as a militant. Stic.man carried on studying agricultural engineering at university and thanks to a lot of confrontations in the street learnt a lot about law and rights. M-1 got burnt out after 3 years as a militant and so he got in touch with stic.man to make him a proposal. He suggested they start a project combining the music they loved so much and political and social militancy. That's how Dead Prez was formed.
In terms of musical style, they do crude hip-hop and dirty underground. Racism, social critique, government hypocrisy, media manipulation and the frivolity of the hip-hop world stand out in their lyrics. Lyrically, they're Malcolm X and the Black Panthers' poor grandchildren. In musical terms they're the children of Public Enemy, although their arrangements are special and original, probably because they work with other musicians on a regular basis.
Their first long work was Let's Get Free (2000). David Chapelle used their song Hip Hop as his tv show's theme tune and it was a huge success. In 2001 they brought out Get Up in collaboration with The Coup. A year later they brought out Turn Off The Radio Volume 1 and then Get Free Or Die Tryin Mixtape Volume 2. In 2004 the controversial Revolutionary But Gangsta came out. As their record titles say, up to now they're criticised dirty gansta without stopping being revolutionaries. They didn't bring anything new out until they got together with Outlawz to record Can't Sell Dope Forever (2006). And now, once more, they've shown that they like to work with other artists. They've brought out Pulse Of The People" Turn Off The Volume Vol 3 with DJ Green Lantern. We've had the chance to listen to an advance on the Internet and, in spite of the title, their creativity is still a long way from turning itself off.
