WRBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta on the Radio with dead prez

Abstract

In true “Fuck tha Police” tradition, dead prez is suing the infamous NYPD (while other profiled “rappers” are now rocking NYPD caps). No “star-spangled slaves” here! An underground DJ conducted this interview with M1 and stic.man live. Really, really live. Driving the white wartime censors at a certain station out of their colonzing little minds. It was a month or so before the slated release of RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta, dead prez’s major-label follow-up to their debut album, Let’s Get Free (2000). But then “hood news” had it that the Columbia Records plantation dropped the duo, abruptly terminating their contract, and shelving their much-anticipated album whose live-ass title was already on our tongues. Rumors raged that these “free agents” would be wrapped up by everybody from Bad Boy to Def Jam as they aim to “pimp the system.” Get Free or Die Tryin’ (2003), dpz’s second “mixtape” independent release, amped us in the meantime.