Dead Prez

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Styles: Hardcore Rap, Underground Rap, Political Rap, Alternative Rap
Group Members: M-1, Stic.man
Biography: The Florida-based political rap duo Dead Prez consists of Stic.man and M-1, a pair of rappers inspired by revolutionaries from Malcolm X to Public Enemy. They immersed themselves in political and social studies as they forged their own style of hip-hop. They went on to work with Big Punisher on his 1998 ...Read full biography
Lets Get Free
Released: 2000
Label: Relativity
Critics' Rating:
Signed to a label (Loud) notorious for its astute thug philosophers (Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Big Pun), Dead Prez's empowering debut, Lets Get Free, seems like a misplaced oddity. Yet the disputatious duo ...Read full review
RBG: revolutionary but gangsta
Released: 2004
Label: SONY URBAN MUSIC/COLUMBIA
Critics' Rating:
Though their methods aren't subtle, Dead Prez are as intelligent and philosophical a group of social activists as Public Enemy or Boogie Down Productions -- it's just that their philosophies stray more ...Read full review
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