dead prez

[bunk]

Just bought get free or die tryin yesterday and no doubt there still great rappers who talk about real stuff but since let's get free they have become i think racist to white people. Perhaps when they made let's get free they were young and afterwards when they realised no revolution was imminent and they had to carry on living there normal lives they saw living as a G as the best way until a revolution and white people as the immediate enemy instead of capitalism. They should realise that capitalism is not just run by white people.
I enjoy there music even though i'm white but if i went to see them they wouldn't let me in??

[guerrillaradio]

Eh?? Since when were DP anti-white?? Don't believe the lies...

[The Sloth]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2004, 11:38 PM
Eh?? Since when were DP anti-white?? Don't believe the lies...
Not necessarily anti-white, but if a song like "Paper, Paper" starts out with "slap a whiteboy up", then you get to thinking... :rolleyes:

[Kaan]

i have both lets get free and the third album (dont recall the name). Lets Get Free was brilliant, but the third album disappointed me a little, they seemed less militant and the music just wasn't on par with the first album. The song that saved it was the one with onyx on it (love onyx).

[dsmtuner]

Yeah, i have get free or die tryin', let's get free, and rbg. rbg kicked ass, one of my favourite albums made.

[bunk]

RBG sucked compared to let's get free.

[percept¡on]

This could be portrayed as anti-white; probably more anti-black because they portray poor black folks as violent, out of control animals (looks like "Rise of a Nation" or something out of a KKK propaganda film). After watching this I could never listen to them the same again. Which is fukked up cuz they were my favorite group and I've spent countless hours arguing that they aren't racist, just misunderstood.

Watch for yourself:

http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_HellYeah_VidFull.ram

http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_Hel...VidFull_ref.mov (http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_HellYeah_VidFull_ref.mov)

http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_Hel..._VidFull_56.asx (http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_HellYeah_VidFull_56.asx)

http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_Hel...VidFull_300.asx (http://www.deadprez.com/video/DeadPrez_HellYeah_VidFull_300.asx)

[dsmtuner]

crossfire, how did it suck compred to lets get free? do u listen to hip hop or just the political stuff?

[bunk]

I listen to most hip hop apart from Chingy and Nelly crap.
Let's get free was a complete album with much better songs police state, hip hop, propaganda, they schools, we want freedom, pistol plus personal songs like mind sex and discipline. There were lot's of songs unlike RBG (mostly made up of three versions of hell yeah). RBG had watered down beats and lyrics dominated by gangster rubbish, the album has nothing to make it stand out from the thousands of other albums. Get free or die tryin is better than RBG.

[bunk]

why the fuck did they do a duo with jay-z, that tells you where dead prez are going.

[dsmtuner]

Why not get Jay-Z on the record? It's gonna attract more people and get more attention,(if the song's hot it's hot, his verse was pretty good too, not as good as the other remix of hell yeah but...) why do u think they signed to a major record label? And i don't think dead prez are going anywhere other than in the right direction.

[bunk]

you haven't answered my other post so i assume you agree with me now that let's get free is the better album.
Cause there supposed to be socialists, it's a bit hypocritical signing on jay-z.

[dsmtuner]

Cause there supposed to be socialists, it's a bit hypocritical signing on jay-z

Why?

To the "other" post: How were they better songs? "gangster rubbish?" What's this? Just because it has a bit different style it makes it not good? IT's a very good album with basically the same kind of lyrics.

[Hampton]

VIBE Online: I see you got Erykah Badu and Krayzie Bone on this album, and a "Hell Yeah" remix with Jay-Z. Do you think collaborations with artists like these will make dead prez mainstream or open y'all up to a wider audience in some way? Does that even matter to dead prez?

M-1: Does it matter? That's not the focus at all. I think we 're gonna make kinships, you know, comrades. We all get down in the same 'hood. I think it's definitely important to work with artists like Badu, Krayzie, and Jay-Z 'cause their audience might not know exactly what we are.

stic.man: To me, I just want a wider audience. We're trying to touch the world everywhere we at. People like Jay-Z, Krayzie Bone, and Badu? Obviously, I'm a fan of their talent, but just as far as their outreach or whatever, it's a beautiful thing. None of those people charged us, number one. So it's like a blessing just to work with them, and for them to bring us into a relationship?

Link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:PYStb_sJ1-kJ:www.vibe.com/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%26name%3DNews%26file%3D article%26sid%3D229+dead+prez+jay+z&hl=en)

[bunk]

ok fine. Dmstuner i don't know how u can think rbg is better let's get free is much better and is a complete album. The songs had better beats, better lyrics.................

[Colombia]

On the album Get Free or Die Trying, track 11 they mention that people have used chemical warfare on African colonized people.Any truth to this?

[Eastside Revolt]

Originally posted by Brooklyn-[email protected] 25 2004, 02:04 AM
Not necessarily anti-white, but if a song like "Paper, Paper" starts out with "slap a whiteboy up", then you get to thinking... :rolleyes:
I totally hear ya, I got a little choked when I first heard that.

I also didn't like that line "everywhere the white man goes he fucked it up". It's not asif I'm in denial of the genocide caused by european imperialists, however it still annoys me. It's not like everywhere the Japanese went they bought peace and love, and it's not like there haven't been black imperialists in Africa.

However I think they still spit the most progressive lyrics of any rappers including KRS. My favorite line by them is: "I say we all rush the pentagon, pull out guns and grab the intercom. My first words would be, I believe man created god out of ignorance and fear, if god made man then why the hell whould he put us here". :D

[pandora]

I've seen Dead Prez before, they kept us waiting all night a crowd of poor people for their egos while they got high
We had to entertain ourselves with breakdancing all night
They finally came out did a few cool songs but were kind of stuck on themselves
and advocated beating up white men in suits and stealing their shit which sucks from a Buddhist perspective just brings bad karma
Wu Tang Clan would not approve