Artist Dead Prez
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Dead Prez
One of the most charged hip-hop albums ever, Dead Prez’s 2000 debut, Let’s Get Free, tore into general hypocrisy with a deft mix of anger and compassion. Pressing down on issues from prisons to public schools to police brutality without ever getting preachy, M-1 and Stic.man’s bracing, eloquent discourse is unmatched since Public Enemy’s heyday. The industry mostly slept on Dead Prez since then—though it’s kept up its profile through Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, mixtapes with Outlawz and DJ Green Lantern, and various solo albums—but what does that matter? As Dead Prez themselves famously mused, “It’s bigger than hip-hop.” The duo appears here behind a still-in-progress third studio album, Information Age.
Updated 10/08/2009
Related Reviews
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Dead Prez: RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta
April 12, 2004
- dead prez: Let's Get Free March 29, 2002
