After watching him work his magic with Nas’ Nigger Mixtape & participating in that project, dead prez have linked up with DJ Green Lantern for Pulse of The People, a new LP and third installment of their independent series, Turn Off The Radio Vol.3. Assuming this is the first track, I’ll hope for better because this simply lacks energy. While it leaves plenty of room for the duo to wax economic poetics, the beat is too minimal & too slow. Still, I’m not counting them or Green out by any means because he did well working with Nas & made stic sound like a hungry emcee again on “Association.”
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Pulse Of The People will be released on 6.23.09 through Green Lantern’s new label, Invasion Music Group/Boss up Inc.
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94k for Ms. Hilson … did much better than I expected
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5307NV20090401
Capo No. 9 with 43K … are we really in a recession?
Here’s something genuine, D-Nice’s latest true hip hop stories. The Homeless Emcee…
http://vimeo.com/3482042
Baby Paw,
DNice is a smart cat… one of the few real art-st/documentarians left in the culture. I can only imagine what he’d do with some actually resources and some distribution for his interviews. He’s a good photographer, too.
43K cracking the Top 10? Numbers like that used to get A&Rs fired. Forget “re—” We in an undercession! 43K… that’s like Charles Hamilton + Capadonna digits.
I like Keri Hilson but i’m struggling to see 94K… even with all the promo copies they threw in to boost her figures (no hetero).
As much as I like DP, anyone think they’re a harder sell in the age of Obama? I mean, we “won” right. All this economic stuff is just life… should we just suck it up and get over it?
Just askin’…
With all that said, this joint’s serious… I’m coppin’ vol 3. Date circled.
@Canseco, yep D-Nice is a great photographer and documentary maker indeed. I really enjoy his True Hip Hop stories series. I would envisage he does have the resources, isn’t he some type of multi media wiz and is connected with Chris Lighty and Violator Management? Either way, hope he keeps on doing what he is doing, the photography work during his interview with Masta Ace was amazing!
As for Dead Prez, take or leave for me, they get a bit over zealous sometimes, I tend to think of them as an updated version of Lakim Shabazz with a bit of X-Clan and Poor Righteous Teachers thrown in for good measure.
As much as I like DP, anyone think they’re a harder sell in the age of Obama? I mean, we “won” right. All this economic stuff is just life… should we just suck it up and get over it?
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Harder sell if they continue down this route. Track is buns.
Dead Prez
represent me (hiphop)
See Gotty, I like this track… or do i like the idea of this track more? hmmm…
Baby Paw dusted off a Lakim reference… wow. Now that’s a cat who knows his culture.
Yeah, DP can get a little over the top, but I’ve seen them at enough random community org events just talking and actually working for free that i think, at least for a time, they were true believers…
But they sorta missed the jiggy/flossy phases of the game, so what else can they do but keep it movin?
Maybe the DPG crew can come up with their own dance…
*Run in place, throw a black fist in they face… do The Militant!!!*
What if is the hardest song out there right now. Say it ain’t. [sandman voice] CHALLANGE [/sandman voice}
When was stic not hungry? Song is sick.