Dead Prez Tease Black Thought Collab As They Announce First Album In 11 Years

    dead prez have revealed that they’ll be teaming up with Black Thought on a forthcoming collab set to appear on their first new album in 11 years.

    On Wednesday (June 1), the New York-formed rap duo — comprising M-1 and stic.man — took to Instagram to announce the exciting news regarding their forthcoming album and The Roots frontman appearing on the project.

    All three rap contemporaries posed for a picture with each other. “Ya heard? Spread the word! New @deadprez x @blackthought on the way!,” dead prez captioned the photo.

    Check out the Instagram post below:

    The last project from dead prez was 2012’s Information Age which was released digitally first, then physically in 2013.

    Both men have been outspoken about preserving the true art form of Hip Hop for many years. After Pop Smoke’s death in 2020, stic.man took to IG and spoke about the negativity that has permeated Hip Hop, which has affected the music genre on a broader scale.

    “As a culture in Hip Hop, broadly speaking, we seem addicted to glorifying supporting perpetuating and celebrating negativity,” he began. “We support and celebrate misogyny, self hate, fratricide, homicide and genocide, and we do it with pure arrogance and ego, in almost everywhere you turn in mainstream and social media.

    “Rappers have become the joke of the culture, spitting out nonsense in flashy and catchy ways for the chance of fame and financial gain. Every major radio channel amplifies it.”

    He continued: “Men and Women accept and participate in the negative atmosphere. All in the name of money, notoriety and glorifying the cliches of the streets. We have watched the same cycle breed death and cause harm in numerous ways over and over and over and over again.

    “Your favorite rappers will speak out when a fellow rapper life is cut short due to the same nonsense mentalities that most of their own music perpetuates. It’s not that we don’t know better by now. It’s a choice.”

    Meanwhile, dead prez spoke to HipHopDX back in 2019 about an array of topics, including living holistically and being better men for their families. M-1, who has five daughters, said at the time that supporting women is essential to Hip Hop becoming greater as a whole.

    “I think more so than ever, it’s time for men to support women’s leadership,” he said. “To be a part of a truly transformative process is completely inspirational and revolutionary. Maybe one day that will make it to music, but I more think it’s about the action. To actually be present for women is the most important thing for me to do.”

    7 thoughts on “Dead Prez Tease Black Thought Collab As They Announce First Album In 11 Years

    1. Black thought is solid, but somewhat of a has been. I’ve been digging White Thought a lot lately (thats his albino brothers rap moniker)

      1. Cheat Codes came out last year and that was fire. This year he’s working on hip hop 50. Black Thought is not a has been at all. More like having his second run.

    2. Y’all journalism sucks soo bad on here. Stic is from Tallahassee FL and M.1 is from NC. They are in no way a New York group.

      1. Why don’t you Google dumbass. Where they from and what they rep are different. Go back to school idiot.

    3. Y’all journalism sucks soo bad on here. Stic is from Tallahassee FL and M.1 is from NC. They are in no way a New York group.

    4. Information Age was a great album. Overstand is a classic song. Some of the beats were not to my taste, considering that Let’s Get Free is one of my favorite albums of all time and Stic’s beats are flawless through out the whole project. He is one of the most slept on producers in my opinion. If they could some how capture that grimy classic New York sound they had on that album and put there more updated uplifting perspectives of life on it, it could potentially be the greatest Hip-Hop (Higher Infinite Power Healing Our People) album of all time considering where these two gentlemen’s mindsets are. Stic’s Workout albums are unbelievably motivating and I strongly recommend them as well as his book The 5 Principles. A Black Thought collab will be super Healthy! I cannot wait to hear what they cook up, I feel it will be exactly what the culture needs. Bless Up!

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