Internationally acclaimed artist/activist stic.man of dead prez has always put his art where his heart is; the community. Standing on the shoulders of Curtis Mayfield, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, and Public Enemy, stic.man and dead prez continue to make true love and freedom accessible to the masses.

Everybody needs a soundtrack. I bet you Obama would bump these joints from Outkast, Marvin, Gaye, Erykah Badu, and Gil Scott Heron in his Presidential Caddy!

There is a reason there is a liquor store on almost every corner where black folks congregate. Furious Styles, Laurence Fishburne’s character in Boyz NThe Hood, said it best: “They want us to kill ourselves.” In his groovy yet illuminating song “The Bottle,” noted poet and vocalist Gil Scott Heron details the seduction of drugs better than my blog response ever could…