★★★★★
It's hard to remain both strident and surprising: Usually one tendency erodes the other until you get predictable or go soft. Political radicals Dead Prez have, up to now, demonstrated a career-long instinct for landing clean hooks from unexpected angles. Do you have a song decrying the complacency of big-budget hip hop...
- pitchfork.com
2012-11-09
★★★★★
This album, delayed by troubles in getting it released, should be held up to anyone who says that hip-hop is all about bitches, brew and bling - this is protest music created by intelligent black men. Period. Both erudite and funky, it is perhaps the most effective way of spreading a message to the masses bumpin' hip-hop just for the bump: If you get the head bobbing rhythmically enough, the words will sink all the way in...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Dead Prez have put this "mixtape" out while their album, originally intended for Sony, is being shopped around...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
The first album of the aggressively political group Dead Prez was called "Let's Get Free," a title not only appropriate for the black power message, but also as a prophetic mantra for members M1 and stic.man. Shortly after the release of "Let's Get Free" Dead Prez bounced from its label, Relativity Records, and found greener pastures (so far) through indie-label Landspeed Records, releasing the warmly-received "Turn Off The Radio" last year...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Dead Prez has always enjoyed toying with the duality of their name. On one level, "Dead Presidents" are what every materialistic minded entertainer is trying to collect - green bills with faces like Abraham Lincoln's. It's a somewhat ironic nickname when you consider that Mr. "It's All About the Benjamins" Franklin is on the $100 bill, possibly the most popular of all, when he was never a President dead OR otherwise. And that's the flipside of their name, actually...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
A group with their eye on the political, the conscious sideof things more often than not, dead prez describe themselvesas "Somewhere between NWA and PE." While that's an aptstatement, I find them closer to a hybrid of Ice Cube andKRS-One, complete with all the incendiary statements, illmetaphors, unblinking honesty and forceful delivery thosetwo were renowned for...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Inclusive music trumps militant ideology ("Last Days Reloaded," "Window to My Soul")
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Pretty lively for socialist moralists with no sense of humor ("Mind Sex," "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
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