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i don't like them much. what about you?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

classic, whitey.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ha! ok that first post was a bit trite. i love "i'm a african" - the beats in that one are great. but that album goes downhill very swiftly indeed. should i persevere with it?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's Get Free = Classic. "Hip Hop", "Police State", "Psychology" & "The Pistol" are all Classic tracks. I'm wondering if they get stick for daring to be explicitly political.

Not heard Revolutionary But Gangsta yet, but from what I've read about it I'm worried they've pandered to the "Politics is Boring" crowd.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

noodle, try to get your hands on the RBG that was floating around the internet for about a year. much better than the retail version, about 6 more tracks, i believe...

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

only Dead Prez I've heard was on The Coup's album. I liked his voice and all, but I felt he was out of place and his lyrics weren't the strongest on that appearance.

HOWEVER, I've heard nothing but good things about him, and I am interested in checking him out, because I feel it was probably just a fluke.

where would I want to start?

― uh, Monday, 26 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

dead prez is NOT a person, ok?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus fuck, ok.

god forbid I didn't know something about an artist I've not fucking heard outside a guest spot before, dicklick.

HENCE WHY I WAS ASKING.

― uh, Monday, 26 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Prez have more than one song?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

As David Quantick said, many years ago, all Great bands have only 1 song. Mediocre bands have 2.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yea if you listen to Casey Kasem.

― uh, Monday, 26 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

More classic than dud, but both albums are kind of uneven (the HIGHS are really high though.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

alex OTM

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

but the lows are very low. That mind sex song is seriously the worst rap song ever.

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the song about healthy food?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I don't know the veganism song is pretty silly too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i think the lentils song justifies their existence

― robin (robin), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

but what is it called? "the lentils song"?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Be Healthy"

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks! :-D

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: Prez "Be Healthy" vs. Tribe "Ham and eggs"?

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Be Healthy" is pretty funny in a "I can't believe someone who I am actually listening to is releasing a song about this" way.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

classssssssssss

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

We eat fish, tossed salads and make rap ballads

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i feel like they are speaking to me personally when i hear "be healthy"

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Wolves, but come now, Mind Sex?
Worst. Rap song. Ever.

― tessa, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I think "Bigger Than Hip-Hop" is indisputable classic and Alex/SF is OTM pretty much.

The new album is dece. The remix w/ Jay-Z is excellent, and "W-4s" is great.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe I can still think of most of the chorus to that mind sex song off the top of my head: "it's time for some mind sex/ we don't have to take our clothes off yet/ we can burn the incense and just chat/ relax and feel the good vibrations/ before we make love let's have some good conversation."

and later he rhymes "game of chess on the futon" with "fresh bed of lettuce with crutons" or something like that. God you're right that is totally bad, I don't know why I never really noticed that before. It's along the same lines as "lemonade was a popular drink and it still is".

I like that health food song though. It's like Weird Al for Yuppie Black Panthers.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lemonade..." is totally classic.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The new album needs "Cop Shot" and to lose at least one "Hell Yeah" remix. Also "The Twenty" is the best track (although "Walk Like a Warrior" is also really good.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

W-4s!!!

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad somebody is with me on The Twenty. I haven't really listened to the album that much since I got it, but I've put that song on several tapes.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

I'm putting "Twenty" on the Hut tonight.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Fuck! Let's Get Free forever! It's a primer on this shit
the manifesto

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

"Let's Get Free" was indeed great, and I even like "Mind Sex". With all the sexist stuff there is, isn't it nice to hear male rappers coming from a different direction, even if they are a bit of hippies? And "Be Healthy" was nice too, can't rappers talk about health issues? Especially when they are tied to class?

"RBG" was a big disappointment though, only a handful of good tracks on it ("Walk Like a Warrior", "W-4s", "Hell Yeah") and lots of pointless filler. You shouldn't have lengthy intros and outros and three remixes of the same tune on a 40-minute album. I think both of the mixtapes were better than it, especially the first one which I like almost as much as the first LP.

Where the hell is The Coup these days, by the way? It's been over four years since "Party Music".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Those who like the Dead Prez should check out "Homecoming", the solo album by their co-producer Tahir. He isn't as good a rapper as the DPz (so thankfully there are a lot of guest MC's, including M1 and Stic), but the beats on that record are the shit. Also, it has a ridiculous, 13-minute track called "The Ranks", which features the whole fucking People's Army - about 30 different rappers.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I love Dead Prez, and I think "Let's Get Free" is one of the best first albums of all time, loads of strong tracks on, that lovely Jazz track "You'll Find A Way" with the trumpet, fucking the only time i've heard Orwell's Animal Farm turned into a rap song ("Animal In Man") and "Hip hop" is a classic no doubt.

Fantastic lyrics perhaps blighted somewhat by slightly dodgey subject matter, this is one of the most emotional rap albums in my opinion, and we're not talking like Tupac emotion, these guys are furious, and that helps to make lines like "i'll go against a tank with a shank for my dreams, and thats my fucking word" far more powerful, at least to me anyway.

RBG was shit though. Agreed.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Dud. I love righteous indignation as much as the next hip-hop fan but Let's Get Free was one of the most tortuously boring CDs I've ever heard. That single was good, though.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

'm not a hunter but i am told,
that, uh, in places like in the arctic,
where indiginous people sometimes might, might, hunt a wolf,
they'll take a double edged blade,
and they'll put blood on the blade,
and they'll melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice,
so that only the blade is protruding,
and that a wolf will smell the blood and wants to eat,
and it will come and lick the blade trying to eat,
and what happens is when the wolf licks the blade,
of course, he cuts his tongue, and he bleeds,
and he thinks he's really having a good thing,
and he drinks and he licks and he licks,
and of course he is drinking his own blood and he kills himself,
thats what the Imperialists did with us with crack cocaine,
you have these young brothers out there who think they are getting something
they gonna make a living with,
they is getting something they can buy a car,
like the white people have cars, why can't i have a car?
they getting something they can get a piece of gold,
white people have gold, why can't i have gold?
they getting something to get a house,
white people have a house, why can't i have a house?
and they actually think that theres something thats bringing resources to them,
but they're killing themsleves just like the wolf was licking the blade,
and they're slowly dying without knowing it.
thats whats happening to the community, you with me on that?
thats exactly, precisely what happens to the community,
and instead of blaming the hunter who put the damn handle and blade in the ice
for the wolf,
that what happens is the wolf gets the blame, gets the blame for trying to live,
thats what happens in our community,
you don't blame the person, the victim,
you blame the oppressor, Imperialism, white power is the enemy,
was the enemy when it first came to Africa,
and snatched up the first African brothers here against our will,
isss the enemy today,
and thats the thing that we have to understand.

(Clapping)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

RBG was amazing, you people suck

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

dead prez: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop concert/interviews on Starz in Black right now.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

This is awesome. The concert is in SF. I love it when they cut to a corny indie fuX0r singing along earnestly: "Tellin' me white man lies! Straight bullshit!" Also spotted white girl in Rasta hat.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh, NOOOO....they are playing "Mind Sex". Ugh Ugh Ugh, and I was just about to post how great it was that they just played "Fuck The Law".

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

They School = classic.
Mind Sex = dudder than dud.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, exactly. Don't let the fact that they played "Mind Sex" put you off watching this. They did most of their best songs: I'm A African, Hip-Hop, W-4, 'They' Schools, Fuck The Law, Hell Yeah, Walk Like A Warrior, etc.
The interview segments were ok. They mostly talked about the Bay Area, Black Panthers, mainstream radio not playing dead prez cuz they're too subversive or something...it's about what you would expect.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 10 June 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

I like the idea of a white girl in a rasta hat earnestly singing "[...] Straight bullshit!" at a Dead Prez concert as a symbol for some of the cultural battles going on in America.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Performed at Intonation. Had Fred Hampton Jr. come on stage and advocate for the naming of Fred Hampton Way near Monroe. It was a great performance.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

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