M-1 of Dead Prez

M-1: Legacy Magazine "Interview Of The Year" 2005

We have interviewed alot of cats over the years and people are always asking us which are some of the dopest interviews ever. Up until now we've always said that all our interviews are The Dopest becuase thats the way we honestly feel about each and everyone of them, but after Interviewing M 1 this past year and seeing how the response got so crazy, so much so that it lead us to creating this very Award we are so proud to bless him with.
Please make sure to read and listen to the actual interview in it's entirety, for you will see this was a "No Brainer".

M1 Accepts Legacy Magazine "Interview Of The Year" 2005 (audio) HERE

S1: S1 here Today with my nigga M1

M1: Yeah

S1: We're gonna bless my nigga with the first annual Legacy Magazine Interview of the year 2005 recipient-M1. How you feelin baby? Talk to us dawg.

M1: I'm feelin beautiful man, I'm blessed. This is probably one of the awards that I covet the most. I feel like wow, it really means more to me than any other kind of award I could have gotten. We have been fortunate to get awards from the people this year. This one means a lot that it is coming from the people, that I get to speak my mind, and that it is being received in the most beautiful way, ya know.

S1: No doubt, no doubt, and to be honest with you, we interview a lot of cats. And we love all our hip-hop brothers and sisters ya know what I mean. Everybody has got a different bent, everybody talks about different shit. What sets you apart is, I mean shootin from the hip, honest, concise in what your tryin to deliver, and at the same time it was all real. It wasn't anything manufactured, pre-packaged, it was just bein' real. It touched a lot of niggas in the staff. We're like you know what, this nigga deserves that shit, we';re gonna break it down for him. It is definitely a pleasure for you to be the first nigga we hit off with the Interview of the Year for Legacy Magazine.

M1: That's beautiful man, I worked hard I just want to let y'all know. This job that I have been appointed to by the people, when I say the people I mean the working class strugglers inside these borders of the US and outside of the US. It is an honor to be able to speak to for the people, I never speak for M1 and I never speak for Deade Prez, I speak for the people and hopefully I am representin the job correctly. According to you guys it's goin down right and I just really want to give it the way it is supposed to be given and honor those who would have done it just like I did it. So thank yall once again for allowin me to stand in this position, I hope I can continue to do this to be free.

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The Original M-1 Interview

M-1 Dead Prez

M-1: DIARY OF A REVOLUTIONARY
People's Army stand up!! We got a hot one here ya'll! Straight from the mutha fuckin revolution is M1, 1/2 of Dead Prez. With a new solo album about to be released M1 and Dead Prez are poised to lead the hip-hop nation and educate the masses. S1 & M1 kicked it for a few while M1 was at a studio session with Q-Tip. This is what he had to say:

You Must listen to the M-1 Audio Interview in it’s entirety, as for M-1 will have you buggin on some Extra Shit, as M-1 doesn’t hold his tongue for no one… The RZA once said some thing like, listen to our shit and you won't need to go to summer school shorty... We'll after you Hear all 3 partz of the M1 interview, you won't even need to go to college

S1 & M1 Part 1HERE

M1 breakz it down to a Science Part 2HERE

What M1, Dead Prez and hiz Affiliatez got Planned Part 3HERE

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S-1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, What’s going on my peoples, you know who this is S-1 da mutha fuckin man, Legacy Magazine, Legacy Radio and today we are coming straight at you from the Underground Revolution and we have for you none other then my nigga M-1 from Dead Prez. What’s poppin my nigga?

M-1: Braaa, braaaa, braaaa. My People Army stand up. RBG style you better feel me I’m comin from the bottom up tryin to take the top down undermine the system, society if you wit me feel me stand up?All my soldiers around the world we doin it black and brown power style, How you? How you?

S-1: Yo first of all we here at Legacy respect all your fuckin work to be honest its one of the things that helped us drive to do what we do and where we come from, We gonna touch on that. So listen, Let’s go back to the beginning real quick, Let’s Get Free, That shit was pretty easily one of the albums of the year, That type of quality material that you niggas dropped?Talk to us, What was the chemistry ?How did ya’ll get together?

M-1: I mean Let’s Get Free came from a combination of a lot of work. I met my partner Stickman at Tallahassee Florida and when we began organized on the streets really we started freedom organizations before we started rappin and right around the campus of Florida A&M University and we started seeing the problems that young men was dealin with, us being 16, 17, 18 years old men and woman in our community we felt like we needed to step up and not just be tools for the system to use like the college tryin to pump out drones and try and make us all assimilate and get jobs and work for the system and shit, we like yo fuck that we bout to raise up and do this Malcom X style. We bout to do this Huey P, Newton style...we gonna learn what it means, study under leadership of the OG’s in the community who was helping us do things like renaming ourselves and structure our organizations and show us how to train fight and military stand and that’s really the thing that went into the music that was behind Let’s Get Free, so by the time we started out in 92? and then ended up in New York in 1996, 97 fuckin around tryin to find a record label that’s the first thing that we could say Let’s Get Free and that’s all the songs that really that came afterwards, it’s really the table of contents for the book that Dead Prez had to preview to the world, which has many pages and many chapters in it but we just had to let people know in case that was our last shout to the world, in case this was our only chance to stand up for Malcom X, Marcus Garvey and Harriet Tubman, in case this is the last time it might happen, We had to say these 3 words Let’s Get Free!!! And that’s how it happen?

S1: Let me tell you something real quick right now this little interview we’re having right now is reminiscent to one that I had with fuckin Paris, actually your name came up during that interview definitely coming from the same point of view, You touched on a couple of things that are very important, along what you were getting at I want you to look at this for a minute as far as hip-hop is concerned and the state of hip-hop. What do you think brought us to the place we are today with everything that we have around us going on?

M-1: I mean it’ s been a result of our warriors being locked up behind enemy lines, Pardon me one second while I say peace to my brother Q-Tip who is just exiting the studio right now peace brother it’s good to see you. I think it’s a few things, I think is a combination of locking up the warriors from off the street, I think it’s a concentration of a counterinsurgency which comes in the form of military and police brutality inside our communities as well as them pumping everything inside our communities, Drugs, cause it’s them not us pumpin in the drugs we just really have become the victims of this whole thing and that’s how happens. That leaves us with no political education, no leadership, no organization to take up the banner of the struggle and really say, define what it is to say, we out here wondering how and what, when really we livin in the wake and the death. And still off the backs of the assasinations of Fred Hamtpom of the Black Panthers, Huey P Newton & all the way up to today, so we realin, we realin. It’s almost in comparison to a Boxing Match, you know. We the boxer, waking up after the round to find out the round is over asking “What Happened”, and the fight is over. That’s kind of where we @ in the hood, we lookin to gain our composure & get up on our feet & fight another good fight, hopefully this time training to Win, wit the right, correct Revolutionary Strategy.

S-1 What do you think is holding back the better music in Hip Hop (from being played on the Radio, as opposed to the Garbage we get now)?

M-1 Look, Look, Check it out… I hope Legacy is ready for this…

You Must listen to the M-1 Audio Interview in it’s entirety, as for M-1 will have you buggin on some Extra Shit, as M-1 doesn’t hold his tongue for no one… The RZA once said some thing like, listen to our shit and you won't need to go to summer school shorty... We'll after you Hear all 3 partz of the M1 interview, you won't even need to go to college

S1 & M1 Part 1HERE

M1 breakz it down to a Science Part 2HERE

What M1, Dead Prez and hiz Affiliatez got Planned Part 3HERE

Give it a minute to load, best in dsl...



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