Dead will prez

Dead Prez ( The Dead Presidents ) is duet of rap alternate/rap undergound made of Stic.man and M-1. Their celebrity must with their engaged style striking and their texts, having for topics the Racisme, critical pedagogy, the Activisme against the hypocrisy of the governments States-uniens, and the tentacular control of the large companies on the media, in particular on the labels hip-hop. dead will prez gave a their opinion as of their first album, declaring on their-title headlight, I' m year African that the group was “some share between NWA and Public Enemy”. The group is also very close to the rappor Paris (rappor) of San Francisco.

Beginnings

In 1990, M-1 is with Tallahassee with the FAMU ( Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University ) where it meets stic.man and find common points in their love of the music and knowledge. “I bathed in the ideas of the Black Panthers” dixit M-1. “I learned their life, that helped me to form me. ”

stic.man: “I realized that there was a fight which I were to join”. This step carried out M-1 to be registered with the International Democratic People' S Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) in Chicago for three years while stic.man remained in Florida where it started to have various problems. Moved by work that it carried out there, M-1 decided that it was time to concentrate on the music and stic.man approved.

dead will prez transcrirent their political education in texts of rep. Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian discovered them with New York and helped them to sign a contract with Loud Records. But to be the small new ones of a label such as Loud, which produces inter alia the Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep was not easy. dead will prez was not the priority of Loud Records but that did not prevent them from quickly constituting a public of fans thanks to their outrageous performances (burning tickets and launching apples with the public, informant which they were to eat in a healthy way).

Exits

Their first album, Let' S Get Free leaves in 2000, where figure a small hit: Hip-hop already left the previous year. The reception of criticisms was good. The strong political diatribe is personified by the presence of the activist Omali Yeshitela ; Animal in Man - a new version of Animal Farm of George Orwell is also very significant. The instrumental version of their piece Hip-hop was used by Dave Chappelle like credits of its show on Comedy Central. In 2001 they leave Get Up , with The Coup, another group of activists hip-hop. In 2002, dead will prez leave their clean mix slap Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape vol. 1 , followed by the exit of Turn off Radio the: The Mixtape vol. 2: Get Free gold Die Tryin' in 2003. In 2004, their second album Revolutionary But Gangsta leaves. They appear in 2006 in film of Dave LaChapelle, Block party . In 2006 always, with the former assistants of 2Pac, Outlawz they leave an album entitled Can' T Sell Dopes Forever . The song Hell Yeah finds on the OST of film 2 fast 2 furious.

Discography

2000 : Let' S Get Free
2002: Turn Off the Radio operator vol. 1 (Mixtape-CD)
2003: Turn Off the Radio operator vol. 2: Get Free Gold Die Tryin´ (Mixtape-CD)
2004: Revolutionary Drank Gangsta
2006: dead will prez Presents: M-1 - Confidential
2006 : Can' T Sell Dopes Forever (Mixtape with Outlawz)

External bonds

Official site (Columbia Records)
Official site (Sony/Loud Records)

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