wasn't really that good. X-Clan was good (sissy)...with a few decent cuts, but the only great black power hip hop groups are The Last Poets and Public Enemy. just my two cents...but not all conscious hip-hop is really enjoyable...I say this not having heard the Cornel West joints though

television the drug of the nation ! ,breeding ignorance feeding radiation !!! just my 2cents

danielboon said:

great lyrics, but I don't listen to that album anymore and quite frankly the music was a notch below....most political rap can't get me moving like something like Lean Back, Lean Back...why is that

lilgish said:

i love that hpocrissy album, i also saw em glasgow barrowlands on that tour ,.....fab !!!

check what he is doing right now with Spearhead.

i swear he's the Bob Dylan of this generation.

Milty said:

I've heard all lot of his previous stuff w/Spearhead and its on point.

i had the hiphoprisy album for a long time and i finally sold it cuz i came to terms with the fact that it bored the crap out of me. i would still like to hear their album with william s. burroughs, "spare ass annie", which i can't believe i still don't own after all these years.

Disposables had a song and a video that was played on Yo MTV raps back in the early 90's it was about the intolerance of homosexuals....does anyone remember the name of this song???

boriquateddy said:

Yeah, I remember when it dropped.

He was here for Jazz Fest with Steel Pulse and Isaac Hayes. Michael and Spearhead had the crowd jamming and the message was positive.

cranshaw62 said:

I bet. I really dig how the brotha flows.

I didn't know that was Michael Franti. I wasn't crazy about the music (sounded a bit forced & self conscious), but the message was right on.

I like Spearhead better. The music's good, and the message is there.

andyman91 said:

gotta hear spearhead

I’ve honestly never head a DHOH or Spearhead album, but I did buy this record way back in 1988:





This was Michael Franti’s first band, called the Beatnigs, who recorded one album for Jello Biaffra’s Alternative Tentacles label. I became aware of them when I saw them open for Billy Bragg in ’88. They actually joined Bragg for his final encore for a cover of Purple Rain (re-imagined as Acid Rain). They were pretty weird and memorable, though I don’t know that I’d have said they were particularly good. They actually used power tools and tire rims as percussion – really, they were more of an industrial band than a hip-hop band. The song Television actually made its first appearance on this recording: lyrically it’s identical to the later version, but musically it’s more abrasive and less danceable here.

It’s an interesting record, very political (I gather his later projects were as well), but in the end it just doesn’t hold together.

I hate pretentious psuedo intellectual (c)rap
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Dewrede said: