stick.man (l) and M-1 (r) of Dead Prez performing at Occupy DC. Photo by The Occupied Washington Times
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“I’m against the US war against everybody in the world,” M-1 of Dead Prez said at Occupy DC in December. “That’s why we’re right here.”
“It ain’t war till we’re fighting back though,” said stick.man, who completes the rap duo. “When it’s just one side, it’s a slaughter.”
As the rain fell, more than a 150 occupiers gathered under a plastic tarp to hear the politically conscious rappers perform.
Afterwards, stick.man told TheFightBack, “I’ve been struggling in these types of situations for a long time, since my teen years, so it ain’t new for me to see protests. What I’m interested in seeing is effectiveness.”
In addition to US imperialism, the artists held forth on, among other issues, the prison system, healthy eating and the media.
stick.man offered a possible explanation for why the Occupy Movement has struggled with diversity. “Even the name Occupy is something that don’t really resonate in the hood like that because our hood has been occupied by the police,” he said. “We think of Occupy like the army occupying around the world.”