What happens when two underground, political rappers meet with a mainstream self-proclaimed thug poet? We’re about to find out.
“We’ve done quite a few songs with Nas,”M-1 recently told MTV. “We have had a relationship for years. Stic had did a song with just him on it. And I did a song with just me and Nas on it. I don’t know when it’ll surface yet.”
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While working on solo LP’s and looking for a home for their group album, the crew has been thinking about what the music world needs from them and what the youth has been getting from others. M1 even spoke on Al Sharpton and Russell Simmons.
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“People don’t have political clarity. And young people are not clear on their positions and not able to speak. I don’t know if you consider me young or not…I can tell you my position comes from an informed political stand. … A lot of positions are ambiguous,” M-1 stated. “The leadership has not emerged to be present enough to speak out … I’d be interested to see who does have a position that could give clarity to what is happening now.”
“Al [Sharpton] and Russell [Simmons]…I think they are more into ambulance-chasing than actually grinding out [a] position that makes sense,” M-1 continues with his critique. “I think it’ll take some sincere forces that don’t have any interest in anything other than changing our community and making things better.”
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M1 is also working on Birth of a Nation, which will be yet another project for the rapper.
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“It’s an organizational tool to get more interactive with people who feel like there is no inroads to get their voices heard…We’re gonna [use it to] address all the recent issues.”
DX will keep you posted on their new LP and everything else coming up.
