dead prez
From their debut classic album Let’s Get Free, to their Turn Off the Radio mixtape series, all the way forward to M1’s forthcoming international project AP2P and stic.man’s current ground breaking “fit hop” album The Workout, dead prez’s RBG movement continues to evolve and represent Hip Hop culture authentically in this Age of Information.
Since its groundbreaking debut album, 2000’s Lets Get Free, dead prez has used music as a platform to rail against societal injustice. Individually and collectively, Stic and M-1 have been involved in political and community activism, pushing for progressive education for all people, teaching the merits of fitness and eating healthily and illustrating changes needed in American society and throughout the world.
The group were branded and viewed themselves as revolutionary. But unlike others with the label, dead prez seek change for the better in themselves, the status quo and those who challenge the status quo. Even though music was moving away from dead prez’s brand of edutainment at the turn of the century, Stic and M-1 provided a valuable service.
“We are one of the people’s voices,” M-1 says. “We are a product of a community with high expectations and revolutionary aspirations who have been able to bear the brunt of an industry that does not want or does not need for this particular phenomenon to exist – the phenomenon of the people’s voice. We are the voice of self-reflection in hip-hop, the challenge of growth and development in hip-hop. We have gladly taken on that responsibility.”
dead prez remains active with a string of solo albums, mixtapes and outside production with Nas, Erykah Badu and others. Both Stic and M-1 also wrote and are writing books and are in-demand speakers.
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