Dead Prez
Background information
Origin	Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Genre(s)	Underground hip-hop Political rap
Years active	2000 - present
Website	www.deadprez.com
Members
stic.man M-1

Dead Prez is a critically acclaimed underground hip-hop duo of alternative rappers stic.man and M-1. They are largely known for their hard-hitting style combined with Socialist and pan-Africanist lyrics, focusing on revolution, institutional racism, critical pedagogy, police, capitalism, education in the United States, prison systems, religion, activism against governmental repression, and corporate control over the media, especially hip-hop record labels. Dead prez made their stance clear on their first album, declaring on the lead song, "I'm a African" that the group is "somewhere between N.W.A. and P.E." Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 581 pixelsFull resolution (921 × 669 pixel, file size: 530 KB, MIME type: image/png) This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License v. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternative hip hop (Bohemian hip hop) is a style of hip hop distinguished by socio-political lyrics, sparse beats that sample few and/or unusual sources (see jazz rap) and uniquely positive rhymes. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... stic. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternative hip hop (Bohemian hip hop) is a style of hip hop distinguished by socio-political lyrics, sparse beats that sample few and/or unusual sources (see jazz rap) and uniquely positive rhymes. ... stic. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... Pan-Africanism literally means all Africanism. It is a sociopolitical world-view, as well as a movement, which seeks to unify and uplift blacks on the African continent and in the African diaspora as part of a global African community. As originally conceived by Trinidadian Henry Sylvester Williams, pan-Africanism... For other uses, see Revolution (disambiguation). ... Institutional racism (or structural racism or systemic racism) refers to a form of racism which occurs specifically in institutions such as public bodies, corporations, and universities. ... Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. ... For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ... Educational oversight Secretary Deputy Secretary U.S. Department of Education Margaret Spellings Raymond Simon National education budget $862 billion(public and private, all levels)[1] (2004) Primary language(s) English Federal, state, private system Established Activated Literacy ()  â€¢ Men  â€¢ Women % 97 (citation)% 97 (citation)% Enrollment  â€¢ Primary  â€¢ Secondary  â€¢ Post-secondary 76. ... This article is about the institution. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action or inaction to bring about social or political change. ... Political repression is the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of society. ... Historically, corporatism or corporativism (Italian: corporativismo) refers to a political or economic system in which power is given to civic assemblies that represent economic, industrial, agrarian, social, cultural, and professional groups. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... This article is about the hip-hop group. ... Public Enemy, also known as PE, is a hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for their politically charged lyrics, criticism of the media, and active interest in the concerns of the African American community. ...

History

In 1990, M-1 headed to Tallahassee to attend FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) where he and stic.man met and connected due to their mutual love of music and knowledge. "I was soaking up the Black Panther Party as a whole," M-1 remembers. "I learned about their lives and it helped mold me."^{[citation needed]} Tallahassee is the capital of Florida, a state of the United States of America. ... Name Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Address Town Tallahassee, FL 32307 Established 1887 Community Type Public coeducational Classification Historically black Agricultural and mechanical Religion Secular Enrollment Faculty President Dr. Castell V. Bryant Accreditation Nickname Rattlers Mascot Rattler Colors Orange and light green Motto Head, heart, hand, field Newspaper The Famuan... The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American organization founded to promote civil rights and self-defense. ...

"I realized there's a struggle already going on, and I have to try to help ride it out," interjects stic.man. M-1's quest for insight led him to join the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) in Chicago for three years while stic.man remained behind in Florida and started getting into trouble. Burned out by the arduous labor of Uhuru, M-1 decided it was time to focus on music and stic.man agreed. For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). ...

Dead prez transcribed the political education they acquired into lyrical poetry. Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar discovered them in New York and helped them sign a deal with Loud Records. But being new on a powerhouse label like Loud (home to the Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep) was not easy. Although dead prez was not always Loud's top priority, they built a fan base around their over-the-top performances (they've been known to ignite dollar bills and toss apples into the audiences, declaring that they must eat healthily). This article is about the art form. ... Brand Nubian is a hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, consisting of three MCs; Grand Puba (born Maxwell Dixon, March 4, 1966), Sadat X (formerly Derek X, born Derek Murphy) and Lord Jamar (born Lorenzo Dechalus, on September 17, 1968), and two DJs, DJ Alamo and DJ Sincere. ... Lord Jamar (born Lorenzo Dechalus, September 17, 1968 in New Rochelle, New York) is a rapper and actor. ... This article is about the state. ... Loud Records is a subsidiary of Arista Records See also List of record labels Categories: Record label stubs | Record labels ... Wu-Tang redirects here. ... Mobb Deep are a hip hop duo which consists of rappers Havoc and Prodigy. ... A dollar bill can be of various kinds of currency: United States one-dollar bill Federal Reserve note of some particular denomination (modern U.S. currency) United States note (historic U.S. currency) Silver certificate (historic U.S. currency) Gold certificate (historic U.S. currency) Other countries, including Canada, Australia... For other uses, see Apple (disambiguation). ...

Valentine's Day Riot

Immediately following a Dead Prez performance at The Evergreen State College on Valentine's Day 2008, a fight broke out and a campus police officer arrested a suspect for a misdemeanor assault. When the suspect was taken into custody, audience members had warned the band of the arrest. Still on stage, they reportedly encouraged the audience to "find out the officers badge number and pursue the arrest and do something about it" but did not tell the audience to start a riot. A crowd of roughly 200 people then surrounded the officer's car, demanding the police to let the suspect go. Eye witnesses claim that a majority of the estimated 200 people were bystanders watching the riot. An hour prior to the actual riot starting the campus officer had attempted to leave the scene and was verbally harassed by various individuals that were standing outside the venue. The officer that made the arrest felt threatened by the small crowd of angry fans and then called for back up. The officers that responded to the scene attempted to disperse the crowd and used pepper spray. Several bystanders were caught in the dispersed pepper spray. The Olympia deputies responded and removed the campus officer and her car and released the suspect after taking down his information. The Evergreen signature clock tower The Evergreen State College is an accredited public liberal arts college and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. ... Coordinates: , Country State County Thurston Incorporated January 28, 1859 Government  - Mayor Mark Foutch Area  - Total 18. ...

When a Thurston County deputy's car wouldn't start, the crowd overturned it, broke out the windows and sprayed graffiti on it. The deputy's laptop computer and a radar gun were stolen. No weapons were removed from the vehicle. Three other patrol cars had graffiti on them, and suffered minimal damage. The riot was estimated to have caused up to $50,000 dollars in damage. Multiple officers were assaulted with rocks, glass bottles and trash cans in response to the attack on the crowd. There were no serious injuries reported.^[1]

Music

Releases

The duo's debut album was 2000's Let's Get Free, which featured a minor hit with the song "Hip Hop" from the year before. The album was critically well-received, and included intense political diatribes featuring prominent black activist Omali Yeshitela, as well as "Animal in Man" - a retelling of George Orwell's Animal Farm. The instrumental version of their song "Hip Hop" was used as Dave Chappelle's entrance music for his show on Comedy Central, and can be heard on every episode. The popular video game SKATE also features the song "Hip Hop" in their sound track. In 2001 they collaborated with The Coup, another politically active hip-hop outfit, to release Get Up. In 2002, dead prez released the independent mix tape Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1, followed by the release of Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 2: Get Free or Die Tryin' in 2003. Also in 2003, their song "Hell Yeah" was featured in the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack. In 2004, Columbia Records finally released Revolutionary But Gangsta. They were featured performers on the film Dave Chappelle's Block Party, recorded in 2004 and released in 2006. In 2006, they and former 2Pac collaborators, the Outlawz, jointly released an album titled Can't Sell Dope Forever. In 2006, M1 also recorded a solo album titled "Confidential". From the album, the song "'Til We Get There" was on the EA Sports video game NBA Live 2007. In 2007, stic.man released his own solo album titled "Manhood" with Boss Up Inc. / Traffic records. Lets Get Free is the debut album by the alternative hip hop duo dead prez, released on February 8, 2000 (see 2000 in music) on Loud Records. ... For the music genre, see Pop music. ... Omali Yeshitela Omali Yeshitela is a longtime civil rights activist from St. ... George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950) who was an English writer and journalist well-noted as a novelist, critic, and commentator on politics and culture. ... For other uses, see Animal Farm (disambiguation). ... David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, satirist and actor. ... The Coup is a hip-hop group based in Oakland, California. ... The compact audio cassette brought homemade mixes of pop songs within the reach of the casual music fan. ... 2 Fast 2 Furious is the 2003 sequel to The Fast and the Furious. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Revolutionary But Gangsta is an album dropped by Hip-Hop duo Dead Prez in 2004. ... Dave Chappelles Block Party (aka Block Party) is a documentary film hosted and written by comedian Dave Chappelle, and directed by Michel Gondry. ... Years after his death, Tupac Shakur is still considered one of the most influential hip hop artists of all time. ... This article is about the American rap group. ... Cant Sell Dope Forever is the title of an upcoming collaboration project between Hip Hop groups dead prez and Tha Outlawz, set for release on July 25, 2006. ... current EA Sports logo EA Sports is a brand name used by Electronic Arts since 1993 to distribute games based on sports. ...

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Documentary

In June 2006, the cable movie network Starz InBlack began airing an original documentary called dead prez: It's Bigger Than Hip Hop directed by John Threat. The hour-long documentary featured live footage and interviews with dead prez. It also featured interviews from Kamel Bell, owner of Ankh Marketing and son of incarcerated Black Panther Herman Bell; Fred Hampton Jr., son of Black Panther Chief of Staff and Spokesman Fred Hampton; Bay-area rapper and poet Ise Lyfe, and hip hop activist and radio personality Davey D. Among the topics discussed in the documentary are the inadequacies of the public education system, minority entrepreneurship, and social revolution. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... John Threat (John Lee) at a movie premiere John Lee, a. ... The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary Black nationalist organization in the United States that formed in the late 1960s and grew to national prominence before falling apart due to factional rivalries stirred up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... Fred Hampton, Jr. ... Fred Hampton Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). ...

M1 stated, "we've never had the opportunity to express ourselves on this level of magnitude. Starz InBlack taking a chance on us lets us know that the work we are doing is not in vain. That our message is penetrating, it's getting through."^[2]

Discography

Albums

• Let's Get Free
  • Released: March 14, 2000
  • U.S. sales: 300,000 [March 2000]^[3][4]
  • Chart positions: 73 U.S.^[5]
  • Singles: "Hip Hop", "They' Schools", "Police State", "I'm a African"/"The Pistol", "Mind Sex"/"Happiness"

• Revolutionary But Gangsta
  • Released: March 30, 2004
  • U.S. sales : 21,000 (first week)^[6]
  • Chart positions: 60 U.S.^[5]
  • Singles: "Radio Freq", "Hell Yeah (Pimp the System)", "Hell Yeah (Pimp the System) (remix)"

• Information Age
  • Release Date: November, 2008

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Mixtapes

• Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1
  • Released: November 19, 2002
  • Billboard 200 chart position: -
  • Singles: "Turn off the Radio"/"We Need a Revolution"

• Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 2: Get Free or Die Tryin'
  • Released: October 21, 2003
  • Chart position: 144 U.S.
  • Singles: "Fuck the Law"/"When Mamma Cries"

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M-1 solo albums

• Confidential
  • Released: March 21, 2006
  • Chart positions: -
  • Singles: "Early"/"Comrade's Call", "'Til We Get There"/"The Beat"

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stic.man solo albums

• Manhood
  • Released: October 23, 2007
  • Chart positions: -
  • Singles: -

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Collaboration albums

• Can't Sell Dope Forever (dead prez and Outlawz)
  • Released: July 25, 2006
  • U.S. sales : 113,297 copies ^[7]
  • Chart positions: -
  • Singles: "1Nation"

• Soldier 2 Soldier (Stic.man and Young Noble)
  • Released: October 03, 2006
  • Chart positions: -
  • Singles: "Runaway Slave"

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References

1. ^ Pawloski, Jeremy; Hill, Christian. "Crowd destroys deputy's cruiser", The Olympian, 2008-02-15. Retrieved on 2008-02-16. 
2. ^ The 'revolution will be televised' as Starz InBlack presents 'Dead Prez: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop. Frost Illustrated. Retrieved through web archive on December 6, 2007.
3. ^ Lizz Mendez Berry (August 31, 2000), Dead reckoning: Dead prez subvert the same old song and dance. Eye Weekly. Retrieved through web archive on December 6, 2007.
4. ^ Sista Fayemi, dead prez: Plantation Life. Allhiphop.com. Retrieved through web archive on December 6, 2007.
5. ^ ^{a b} Billboard albums. Allmusic.com. Retrieved on December 6, 2007.
6. ^ Andrew Dansby (April 7, 2004), Usher Holds Off Janet: R&B star hangs on to Number One for second week. Retrieved on December 6, 2007.
7. ^ UKMIX - Forums - View topic - US Billboard Charts (26/08/2006)

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External links

• Official Website (Columbia Records)
• Official Website (Sony / Loud Records)
• M-1's MySpace.com page
• stic.man's MySpace.com page
• YouTube video of "Valentines Day Riot" (Part 1)
• YouTube video of "Valentines Day Riot" (Part 2)
• The Truth Behind the Evergreen Uprising