Music To Our Ears: 15 Songs To Start A Revolution
Dead Prez’s “Police State”
Hip-hop duo Dead Prez are hardly mainstream artists. They have stayed on the outskirts because of their confrontational style. Their socialist lyrics often focus on both militant social justice and Pan-Africanism and they’ve long maintained an ethical stance against corporate control over the media. On “Police State,” stic.man and M-1 warned of the dangers of governments that exercise power arbitrarily through the police and violence.