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  Dead Prez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dead Prez are a critically acclaimed underground hip hop duo of alternative rappers stic.man and M-1.
dead prez wasn't always Loud's top priority but that didn't stop them from building 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).
Lyrics such as these indicate to critics that the members of dead prez are not, in fact, professional criminals, but merely posture as such.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Prez   (1009 words)

  
 Dead Prez RBG
Public Enemy, Paris, The Coup and X-Clan are often the groups Dead Prez is lumped into a category with.
Dead Prez have incorporated their politically charged lyrics into their daily works.
Dead Prez music is comprehensive of the struggle; of what we learned in and out of the movement.
www.thetalkingdrum.com /rbg.html   (2618 words)

  
 DEAD PREZ
Dead Prez is a Hip Hop group that has survived the popular culture modernization and commodification of Hip-Hop as an art form.
Dead Prez can be obscene and militantly violent at times in their music.
Dead Prez explores this issue through their song, “Education.” This song examines how the school system does not teach the children of America anything besides how to assimilate and be subservient to society and the political economy.
www.xula.edu /herald/issues/20020411/deadprez.html   (1349 words)

  
 The FlipSide: Dead Prez in Cape Town
The legendary Dead Prez arrived in Cape Town on Saturday night, professing to have 'returned home' to the land of their birth.
Dead Prez are about the expansion of the consciousness.
Dead Prez come from the perspective that violence begets violence, that turning the other cheek will get you nowhere.
www.hiphop.co.za /flipside/archive/columns/2000/dead_prez.html   (958 words)

  
 DEAD PREZ
Dead Prez's lyrical gift of gab plays like a soundtrack to the African experience in America; be it the daily hustle to survive in the midst of injustice or the search for unconditional love.
Dead Prez wasn't always Loud's priority but that didn't stop them from building a fan base around their over-the-top performances.
But despite their personal politics, Dead Prez doesn't feel that their music should be taken as preachiness or misconstrued by those who would attach labels to it.
www.loud.com /home/dead_prez_story_01.html   (760 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lets Get Free: Music: Dead Prez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dead Prez would rather defend free speech and poor communities than waste their Warholian 15 minutes obsessing over booze, blunts, and hos.
Dead Prez's lacerating lyrical stance is unapologetically socialist and pro-fl, recalling X-Clan and Paris.
dead prez maybe about their message first, but in no way does this music suffer from this - in fact, their music is ten times better because of it.
www.amazon.com /Lets-Get-Free-Dead-Prez/dp/B00004DRZS   (2116 words)

  
 GeoReview: dead prez, RBG
Columbia recently decided to release the RBG album and while dead prez isn't happy with the relationship with their company they get to show the world (those aware) the problems and frustrations of being a minority in this country.
The dead prez asks you are in it for the cause in “D.O.W.N. “ Many people and entities claim to be for the cause until the time to stand up arrives and they seem to move to the background.
The group dead prez is beacons of light, letting people know moves have to be made if we are all going to be equal and get ours.
geoclan.com /music/articles/reviews/04/rbg.htm   (1194 words)

  
 c h i c a g o I N N E R V I E W
For reasons that are not difficult to decipher, hip hop duo Dead Prez have been veritable media darlings since their 1997 inception.
"The primary philosophy of Dead Prez is to use the phenomenon of hip hop to articulate the general goals and objectives of our movement — the real movement, the in-the-streets movement by the people — for freedom, self-determination and liberation, ultimately.
Dead Prez is still going strong, and it remains to be seen how the fickle tides of critical praise and fandom will flow.
www.chicagoinnerview.com /archives/jun06_dead_prez.htm   (1233 words)

  
 Dead Prez & Outlawz - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Longtime rabble rousers Dead Prez join the Outlawz to inaugurate the new Affluent label with "Can't Sell Dope Forever," a record that preaches but is never preachy.
Outlawz and dead prez insist that there are ways to empower yourself beyond selling dope and glorifying the flash of the drug game.
dead prez and The Outlawz are some of the most explosive acts in the market today and we are very happy and proud to be able to launch Affluent with these world class acts."
music.download.com /deadprezoutlawz/3600-8538_32-100015787.html   (502 words)

  
 Dead Prez News
Some have called the politically charged hip-hop group Dead Prez a near-perfect incarnation of Public Enemy for the way it brings attention to the plight of the world's poor and those trapped in America's...
Now, dead prez will get their first televised concert special as Starz InBlack takes a bold step in spreading the group's fiery cultural perspective to the masses.
American rappers DEAD PREZ are heading to Britain later this month to headline The Bigger Than Hip-Hop Tour in a bid to promote equality and political awareness.
www.topix.net /who/dead-prez   (624 words)

  
 AWOL Artist Profile: Dead Prez. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dead Prez is a world-reknown hip hop group that needs no introduction.
Dead Prez have taken the art back to the vein of KRS-One and Poor Righteous Teachers, rather than that bling blinging shake yo ass sh*t that be blowin' up the radio.
Dead Prez are featured on the AWOL cd track # 15, their cut 'Cop Shot' proved to be too controversial for Loud Records to put out, so who was there to put it on?
awol.objector.org.cob-web.org:8888 /artistprofiles/deadprez.html   (88 words)

  
 Amazon.com: RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta: Music: Dead Prez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yep, this is Dead Prez's famously long-delayed album, finally surfacing after a string of label deals gone wonky, but no amount of red tape could've stopped the Red, Black, and Green movement--colors of the African Liberation flag--that is tirelessly championed here.
Dead Prez didn't really fall off in there talent, production, or message; they just didn't satisfy the army of people that were hungry for more.
But Dead Prez loses a lot of credibility when on the SAME ALBUM you say "turn off the radio" and 5 tracks later you collaberate on a song with Mr.
www.amazon.com /RBG-Revolutionary-Gangsta-Dead-Prez/dp/B0001MDPOK   (2024 words)

  
 village voice > news > Taking the Rap by Chisun Lee
M-1, half of the activist hip-hop duo dead prez, swigs a suspicious-looking liquid from a plastic container as he awaits his turn on the mike at the annual Black August hip-hop benefit concert.
They are convinced that the club's decision was political and claim that censorship dogs dead prez at major performance spaces throughout the city.
Dead prez's troubles remind supporters of the controversy that surrounded once political acts such as Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice-T—who in 1992 debuted "Cop Killer," which protests racial profiling—and N.W.A., whose 1998 "Fuck tha Police" prompted the FBI to warn off the record company.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0036/lee.shtml   (1377 words)

  
 'It’s bigger than hip hop' - Interview with Stic.Man of dead prez -Pt. 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A reward of $40,000 was once offered for the capture of Harriet Tubman based upon her labor in the cause of aiding over 300 men and women to escape the confines of chattel slavery.
In a modern context, freedom is an expression of hope that is being spread due to the efforts and sacrifice of those who continue to struggle despite what appears to be insurmountable adversity.
dead prez is a tandem of artists who are more than willing to shoulder some of that burden.
www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/article_2567.shtml   (1681 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dead Prez Presents M-1: Confidential: Music: M-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
You always know what to expect from the Dead Prez camp whenever they drop new material -- strong messages of upliftment and self sufficience over soulful, intense, almost tribal production, but this time the vibe is a lot more mellow.
M1 did a good job of setting himself apart from dead prez but at the same time keeping it str8 RBG....M1 is a soulful dude, you can tell by some of the production and melodies on the tracks.
The lyrics are some of the best from any of Dead Prez (essentially this album has a foot in the excellent Let's Get Free and also the hard Revolutionary But Gangsta).
www.amazon.com /Dead-Prez-Presents-M-1-Confidential/dp/B000E5KW9K   (1642 words)

  
 dead prez – Music at Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
dead prez is the pair of largely underground alternative rappers, Stic.Man and M-1.
They have become known largely for their hard-hitting style and politically-aware lyrics, focusing on racism, critical pedagogy, and activism against governmental hypocrisy, and corporate control over the media, especially...
dead prez might not be making music anymore, but if they are, you can help keep other users informed by adding new events when they're announced.
www.last.fm /music/dead+prez   (265 words)

  
 Dead Prez - Biography - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
Get Dead Prez biography information, download, listen and watch Dead Prez music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
music.aol.com /artist/dead-prez/357045/biography?albumid=0   (228 words)

  
 Dead Prez
They have become known largely for a hard-hitting style and politically-aware lyrics, focusing on racism, critical pedagogy, governmental hypocrisy and corporate control over media, especially in hip hop.
Some of Dead Prez's fan base have accused them of giving up on their revolutionary aspects in exchange for their 'Gangsta' side after "Revolutionary But Gangsta" was released.
Dead prez also released the independant mix tape turn off the radio, volume 1 in 2002.
www.artistopia.com /dead-prez   (291 words)

  
 Dead Prez
There's so much to be said about dead prez, that it's easy to dip into hyperbole.
The two comrades' growing sense of Black pride and political theory served as a common bond as they joined various community groups, eventually forming dead prez as a rap group and moving to New York.
But even before the release of the record, dead prez amassed a strong and loyal underground following through their explosive live shows, ardent community organizing and top notch unreleased material.
www.ejams.com /deadprez.htm   (1094 words)

  
 eBay - dead prez cds, CDs, Music items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
DEAD PREZ PRESENTS M-1 -The Beat RARE 7 Track DJ CD '06
Dead Prez - Rbg: Revolutionary But Gangsta CD NEW
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 PETAWorld>Celebrity Support>Dead Prez Takes On KFC
Through their politically charged lyrics, they’ve taken on everything from racism and poverty to world politics.
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 Dead Prez Music Video Codes (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
You can use your myspace login to directly embed your Dead Prez myspace music video code to your profile without copying and pasting the video code.
Enjoy your Dead Prez video on your profile and do not forget to tell your friends about our free myspace music videos.
All music videos are property of their respective owners and are strictly for educational use only.
www.videocure.com.cob-web.org:8888 /music-videos/d/096e7c47e900e983d92ab1a9edde119a.html   (174 words)

  
 CMT.com : Dead Prez : Biography
New group earn success with their debut single.
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.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/dead_prez/bio.jhtml   (215 words)

  
 Album Lets Get Free by Dead Prez - AOL Music
AOL members: For our full suite of interactive Message Boards, Chats, Polls, and member stories, go to keyword: Music Talk.
"Dead Prez speaks the "true-ism" we all need, one day the rest of the world will catch up to their thoughts.
Everything about the album 'Lets Get Free' by Dead Prez including album title, track listings, release dates, guest artists, record label info and user reviews on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/dead-prez/357045/album/lets-get-free/462604   (196 words)

  
 Dead Prez, Jurassic 5 & Hiero Set to Teach About Music B - Message Board - ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dead Prez, Jurassic 5 and Hiero Set to Teach About Music B - Message Board - ezboard.com
Dead Prez, Jurassic 5 and Hiero Set to Teach About Music B
Confirmed guests include Dead Prez, members from Jurassic 5, Domino from Hiero crew, Quannum Records, Radioactive, DJ Backside, Gorilla Pits, Native Guns and more!
p076.ezboard.com /fpoliticalpalacefrm16.showMessage?topicID=680.topic   (225 words)

  
 CMT.com : Dead Prez : Artist Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Florida-based political rap duo Dead Prez consists of Stic.man and M-1, a pair of rappers inspired by revolutionaries from...
Dead Prez Member Arrested For Bringing The Noise
Connect with other fans and discuss what's on your mind.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/dead_prez/artist.jhtml   (96 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Dead Prez tickets, dates
They immersed themselves in political and social studies as they forged their own style of hip-hop, which debuted on the Loud '97 Set Up tape "Food,...
We currently do not have any tickets on sale for Dead Prez.
Check out the following Dead Prez similar artists who are currently touring:
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 Dead Prez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dead Prez: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop (2006) (TV)....
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