Nas' "Made You Look" instrumental was a good choice to address the Trayvon Martin case in rhyme. Every MC reps but  the Mighty Mos Def Yasiin knocks this out the park. Watch the Bmike direct visual for "Made You Die" below.

--

Photo: YouTube

"What's is it really all about at the end of the day?," says Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def. "You can be a better Pop star or a brighter celebrity but particularly if you come from poor communities, you come from Black communities in this country and you see a casual, systemic indifference to Black life you have to respond. I mean it's in your own self interest, it's not even outstanding or courageous. It's a survival issue. Either we're going to fix this or we're just going to agree to be slaves."

Watch the Bey and M1 of dead prez speak more on the need to make justice for Trayvon a priority in the video, courtesy of two cent, below.

MORE ON HIP-HOP WIRED!

• Pharrell Williams' Most Stuntastic Moments [PHOTOS]

• The Best Moments Of WWE's Wrestlemania Weekend

• The 10 Most Expensive Music Videos In Hip-Hop History

• Buck Dancing For Fowl: 10 Stereotype Enforcing Fried Chicken Commercials

• NFL Stars Unveil New Nike Elite 51 Uniforms [PHOTOS]

• Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (CD Booklet) [PHOTOS]

• Every Jay-Z Magazine Cover, Ever* [PHOTOS]

• Converse x Jordan Brand – Limited Edition Commemorative Pack [PHOTOS]

• Track Star Perri Shakes-Drayton Models Nike Women's Summer 2012 Collection [PHOTOS]

• The 10 Most Abused Freestyle Beats Of The Last Ten Years

--

Photo: YouTube

New artists confirmed to perform at the 2011 festival include Dead Prez, Ying Yang Twins, Da Beatminerz, Fashawn, Torae, Varsity Squad, Stanza, Grip Plyaz, Killa Kyleon, Voli, RayDawn, Reef The Lost Cauze, Statik Selektah, Sha Stimuli, A.Dd+ and Clan Destined.

New Jersey's Kosha Dillz, Michigan's JYoung The General and North Carolina's Joe Scudda won HipHopDX's Pick 3 interactive contest to join headliners Random Axe, Freeway and Homeboy Sandman on the October 6 showcase.

The DJBooth.net showcase on October 7 presents Big K.R.I.T., Pill, Jean Grae, Aleon Craft, Saigon, Dee-1, J.NiCS, Shane Eli, Yonas, Jon Hope and the League of Extraordinary Gz. The stage will be hosted by Hustle Simmons.

GoodMusicAllDay and Earmilk have teamed up to present Blog Party on an outdoor stage on October 8 from 6 - 8:30 p.m. featuring artists MURS, Ski Beatz, Phil Ade, Young Scolla, Tabi Bonney, Nottz, G-Eazy, Huey Mack and NatNaiel.

These are just a handful of the several hundred artists and events to be announced for the 2011 A3C Hip Hop Festival. Performers and showcases will be released on a continual basis until the start of the festival.

In addition to more than 200 live performances, A3C provides educational and professional development content. There will be eleven panel discussions on topics including marketing, licensing, production, media, international strategy, visual interpretation, women in Hip Hop and more.

Confirmed panelists include industry professionals such as DJ Burn One, Wendy Day of the Rap Coalition, HipHopDX Editor in Chief Jake Paine, John Gotty of the Smoking Section, SESAC's Cappriccieo Scates, Universal Music Group's Ricardo Spicer and A Tribe Called Quest's Jarobi.

The A3C is the largest Hip Hop festival in the southeastern United States and the premier gathering place for MCs, DJs and producers that create Hip Hop music as well as participants and fans of the culture.

A3C Hip Hop Festival tickets are available on the A3C website. 3-day passes are $40 online and $45 at the door. For discounted hotel accommodations, contact the Days Inn Atlanta Downtown at 1-866-650-7925 with the event name, A3C Festival, and booking code, A3C.

The hotel is located at the intersection of Spring Street and Baker Street, approximately 2 miles from The Masquerade. For discounted airfare, call AirTran at 1-866-68EVENT (1-866-683-8368) and reference event name, A3C Festival, and event code, ATL100311.

Specific showcase, panel, artist and event updates will continue to be announced through the A3C website through the event's start on October 6, 2011. For more information about becoming involved in the A3C as an artist, partner, volunteer or media representative, visit www.a3cfestival.com.

"Wake up, you're walking in a dead man's shoes."

New music from Dead Prez. Listen to it right here.

While M1 will be busy with these academic duties, his main focus will be completing The Africana Digital Project, an experimental music venture from Haverford's faculty and students manifesting in an M1-produced EP that will be available for free download.

“I'm excited about working on The Africana Digital Media project and doing some groundbreaking collaborative work.”

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jesse Shipley, who played a central role in convincing M1 to take on the residency, commented that,

“To have him engage with faculty and students in processes of production is a creative forum for both sides, because in some ways it brings a different kind of energy to what he's doing, and it brings his kind of energy and his engagement as a performer and musician to the campus.”

Although all M1 related activities are for the Haverford College students and faculty only,be on the lookout for The Africana Digital Project and Dead Prez's forthcoming album Information Age.

MORE  HIP-HOP WIRED NEWS AND VIDEO

"Love And Hip-Hop's" Emily B Talks Relationship With Fabolous, "He's The Star Not Me" [Photos/Video]

Toccara And Lance Gross Host National Launch Event For African Pride's 'My Pride, My Way' Campaign [Photos/Video]

Big Heed And Alien Talk Their Single "Tipsy", Skinny Jeans And Being 106 And Park's House Band [Video]

Shinobi Ninja Attacks The Music World With A Hip-Hop Reggae & Rock Blend [Video]

J. Cole Performs At Cameo In South Beach Miami [Photos/Video]

Cali rapper, Murs and Guerilla Union announced the acts scheduled to perform at the sixth annual Paid Dues Festival on Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.

Bun B, Black Star, Immortal Technique, Dead Prez, Asher Roth & Nottz are some of the names gracing one of the Paid Dues stages.

On another stage, the based God, Lil B, Bay area-veteran, E-40, former XXL magazine freshman, Nipsey Hussle and Murs himself will headline.

This year, a "Grind Time Now" stage has been added to the festivities. Not only will fans get to see Slaughterhouse, Chino XL and Blu & Fashawn go in but battle rappers such as Dizaster and Dirtbag Dan are on the bill.

For those unfamiliar with Grind Time, it is a league famous for putting rappers against each other in a timed, battle arena. This Paid Dues show is looking to surpass its predecessors.

Known for bringing together some of the best underground and mainstream hip-hop acts for a full day of live performances, Murs and Guerilla Union have successfully pulled off great showcases of talent for the last five years.

2010's festival included Raekwon, Jay Electronica, Tha Dogg Pound and hip-hop legend, Ice Cube to name a few.

Cop tickets here http://paidduesfestival.com/tickets/

MORE  HIP-HOP WIRED NEWS AND VIDEOS

Follow Us On Twitter

As the fourth entry to their Turn Off The Radio series, the duo tackles instrumentals such as "Beamer, Benz Or Bentley", "Over" and "Swagga Like Us", with a bit of a political twist that only they could pull off.

"Far From Over"

[Check after the jump to DOWNLOAD dead prez' latest]

Download here.

Award-winning law professor Paul Butler titled his inspirational and somewhat subversive book, “Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice” after dead prez's debut album because he wanted to send a subliminal message of camaraderie to the most incarcerated population in the history of the world – the Hip-Hop generation.

For years Butler, a Yale and Harvard graduate, worked as a federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, a city notorious for its drug infestation that heightened around the same time the incarceration rate increased as did the popularity of Hip-Hop. Butler was on the prosecutorial team when former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was charged with possession of cocaine. Then one day, 33 years after Butler had been raised in the inner city by his single mom to become an accomplished African-American without a criminal record, he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit and his perspective was changed.

It was a petty neighborhood beef over a parking spot that sparked his revolution, but turn he did. He left his post as a prosecutor and is now lecturing about how the War on Drugs and the fact that because the United States has more people locked up for drug crimes than people locked up for all crimes in the European Union is making our land of the free dangerous grounds where parents are missing from homes and low-level criminals are being bred for recidivism.

His soundtrack, he notes in “Let's Get Free...” is Hip-Hop, because like no other multi-ethnic popular culture, this group of artists and consumers has a viewpoint that may save our nation. In Hip-Hop, he notes, justice is simple: “If you kill my dog, I'ma kill your cat,” and even though we don't love the crime, we love our criminals: “I'd open every cell in Attica/send ‘em to Africa,” because we know that crime and punishment destroys neighborhoods.

So, to reverse what has been an alarming increase in jail building and lock ups, Butler outlines legislative ways that have long been acknowledged – focus resources on education and rehabilitation. He also calls for the individual to work the system (since the system isn't working) through the completely legal practice of jury nullification in cases involving nonviolent drug offenses.

Jury nullification is what happened in the Barry case when, although the videotape evidence overwhelmingly pointed to guilty, the jury declared Barry not guilty either out of love and for the man or disdain for The Man. Or, as Butler says, “When we return to the best values of the patriots – their trust in the common person and their suspicion of an overbearing government – we will live up to the democracy's highest ideals.”

For more information on "Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice," log on to log on to www.letsgetfreethebook.com/.

Also check out Hip-Hop wired's interview with Paul Butler here.