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American rapper

Musical artist

Mutulu Olugbala (born Lavonne Alford, July 25, ), better known by his stage name M-1 (sometimes stylized as M1), is an American rapper, songwriter, and activist from Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his work as one half of the political hip hop duo dead prez with

Career

M-1's first solo album, Confidential, credited to "Dead Prez Presents M-1," was released on March 21, , through Sotti/Koch Records. The album also had one of its songs, "'til We Get There" on the EA Sports game NBA Live in the tracklist. Following Confidential M-1 worked on the album Can't Sell Dope Forever by Dead Prez & Outlawz.

M-1 had the lead role in Broken Rhyme, a American minute feature film and drama directed and produced by Detdrich McClure about a disillusioned rapper who goes to Japan to shoot a video there and encounters a mysterious Japanese woman who leads him on a spiritual journey and the heavy price he has to pay for turning his back on the forces that run the hip-hop music industry. The film premiered at the Filmlife and HBO American Black Film Festival in June as an Official Selection.

M-1 is also featured in the UK documentary, Guilty or Innocent of Using the N Word.

M-1 is also a political activist for many black and left-wing causes. In July , M-1 accompanied the Viva Palestina convoy, delivering humanitarian supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In , M-1 was featured on British-Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour's single "Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh" ("The Keffiyeh is Arabian") in her res

Jason King, Dean of the USC Thornton School of Music, is a multi-talented Canadian-American scholar, journalist, author, musician, performer, producer, songwriter, radio and video host and event curator.

Before his appointment at USC, King was chair of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts New York University, where he also served as a James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor. He was the Institute’s founding full-time faculty member, working alongside music impresario Clive Davis to help develop the program. He served as the Institute’s first Associate Chair (); the Institute’s first and only Artistic Director (); and the Institute’s Director of Writing, History and Emergent Media (). He has also been the Institute’s inaugural Director of Global Studies, developing and program curating the international study abroad program Clive Davis Institute x Berlin: Future Pop Music Studies in Germany and the Institute’s J-Term course in Havana.

With early personal roots in classical piano and musical theater training, King’s musical interests and accomplishments are broad, spanning pop, R&B, gospel, jazz, rock and other styles. As a scholar and public intellectual with a PhD from his NYU alma mater, his multi-disciplinary work includes African-American and African Diasporic cultural studies; performance studies, globalization and transnationalism studies; media and technology studies; music business, marketing and branding studies; and gender and queer studies. In his capacity as a professor at New York University, King taught classes for more than two decades on popular music history and geography, identity and cultural politics, artist development/A&R and music marketing/branding, and the social aspects of music technology. Among the courses he has taught: Artist Development, A&R and Personal Branding; Conversations with Technology Entrepreneurs; Immersive Experiences; Worldmaking and Ethics: Transforming the Musi

American hip hop duo

Dead Prez (stylized in lowercase) is an American hip hop duo composed of M-1 and , formed in in New York City. They are known for their confrontational style, combined with lyrics focused on both militant social justice, self-determination, and Pan-Africanism. The duo maintains an ethical stance against corporate control over the media, especially hip hop record labels.

Career

Background (–)

In , M-1 headed to Tallahassee, Florida, to attend Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) where he and met and formed a relationship due to their mutual love of music and similar leftist political ideology. While there, their views solidified, M-1 becoming particularly interested in the Black Panther Party.

M-1 joined the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement in Chicago for three years, while remained in Florida. Burned out by the arduous labor of Uhuru, M-1 and chose to focus on music. Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar discovered them in New York City and signed them a deal with Loud Records. Although dead prez was not always Loud's top priority, they built a fan base due to their over-the-top performances (they have been known to ignite dollar bills and toss apples into the audiences, declaring that they must eat healthy).

They had begun contributing songs to film soundtracks and made featurings on high-profile albums. Their first recorded song, "The Game of Life (Score)" appeared on the soundtrack to the film Soul in the Hole. In their song "D.O.P.E. (Drugs Oppress People Everyday)" was featured in the movie Slam. Also in , they were featured on the skit "The Rain and the Sun" off Big Pun's album Capital Punishment, and in were featured on The Beatnuts' song "Look Around" off their album Musical Massacre.

Releases (–present)

The duo's debut album was 's Let's Get Free, with their most popular single to date "Hip-Hop". The album was well received by critics, and included intense political mo