Dead Prez

Pressing down on issues from prisons to public schools to police brutality without ever getting preachy, Dead Prez’s bracing, eloquent discourse is unmatched since Public Enemy’s heyday. The industry has mostly slept on M-1 and Stic.man since their 2000 debut, Let’s Get Free, but what does that matter? As Dead Prez themselves famously mused, “It’s bigger than hip-hop.” While The Man continues to keep the duo’s third record, Information Age, in limbo, M-1 and Stic.man have maintained their hustle, with the former taking the Artist Scholar Residency at Philadelphia’s Haverford College, and the latter recording The Workout, a companion piece to his fitness blog, RBG Fit Club.

Updated 05/04/2012