M-1 and Stic are two fellows who met on campus at university in Florida, hung out, and then took on the world, one fly rhyme at a time. Revolutionaries at their core, they advocate healthy eating, being proactive in politics and community, and huge tunes. You may know them from one of the phattest hip hop tracks ever, It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, which is in any self-respecting music fan’s collection. It’s revolutionary hip hop with a gangsta lean. I spoke to M-1 as he sunned himself in Miami...
ou guys met at FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) originally. What were
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you intending to do for careers following your training? I attended the university and Stic was a local person who was using the resources on campus but didn’t officially attend the university! He was just using them for his own benefit. Tat shows you how resourceful Stic has been since I’ve known him! I was there though, having arrived from NYC with no idea what school was like. Tere were not many choices offered to me as a young, black person in America besides drug dealing or joining the US military, which a lot of my friends did. One of my counsellors offered me the opportunity to go to school, so when I arrived on campus at FAMU, I had no idea of what to do; I just followed my room mate around, who was doing business. I signed up for some business courses and learnt a lot about business, but more than anything I learnt that I didn’t want to do that. I was only there for a year before I realised my real education was going to come from a revolutionary political education tied to what was going on in our ‘hood, in our streets and across the country. So I started out finding out how corporate and capitalist business worked, did it for one semester and that was enough!
Did you go into music primarily as a platform to put your views across? Music was in my blood from my mother,
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