Dead Prez

Dead Prez once released an album titled Revolutionary but Gangsta. Given the duo's militant, almost Marxist approach to the genre, that description seems about right to us. Famous for their antiestablishment anthems, like "Hip Hop" and "Hell Yeah (Pimp the System)," stic man and M1 are in many ways the stylistic and ideological forebears of the most vital artists in today's hip-hop underground, proving that there's no reason you can't tear down the system in the most intelligent way possible.