You may have missed... Dead Vice Prez
I mentioned them in a post awhile back, but if you weren't a high school/college-aged kid in DC about 4 years ago then you probably missed out on Dead Vice Prez. Alumni of several DC area punk and hardcore bands, DVP was a stone-cold crew of straight-edge rappers. While some might consider them a joke or a gimmick, I don't think anyone could deny that their production values only increased on every track they dropped, and that the majority of their lyrical content was pretty damn sick.
From "You Don't Own Shit":
Talk shit/Name drop/Get jealous/Black list/You're the part of the scene that slits its own wrists/Get my gist?/Let me clarify/I want to staple your dick to your lower left thigh
From "My Other Car Is An American Flag":
Let me tell something people just get out of the bars/Grab a brick and then throw it at a government car/Burn a flag and let these idiots know who we are/Real Americans/REAL AMERICANS!
With lyrics that poked fun at the often elitist punk rock scene, while at the same time exhorting a tongue-in-cheek brand of straight-edge philosophy and politics, DVP rose to the status of a crowd favorite in DC, but never made it much farther than that. Members of DVP are involved in the also amazingly funktastic Food For Animals. DVP beatmaster, Joe, has a studio that can be found here.
Since this group (which was really more of a side project) never made an "album" per se, I'm uploading all my Dead Vice Prez for your listening enjoyment. Included are all ten DVP hits, plus the DJ Barticus remix of "The Routine." Enjoy.
Assassination
Let The Heads Roll
My Other Car Is An American Flag
Prisonz
The Party Song (Lickin' Waists For Democracy)
The Routine
The Routine (DJ Barticus Mix)
They Preschools
Tristain Intro
xNewMilleniumStraight-EdgeAnthemx
You Don't Own Shit
PS- I'm going to keep doing "You may have missed... X" from time to time. But since we don't really have a "readership" it won't be a "regular feature."
Comments
whatever, you should be plugging rappers delight club.
Posted by: jamie | November 30, 2006 12:45 AM
Don't give it away all my material! I was going to post about them in a few weeks!
Posted by: darrell | November 30, 2006 02:05 AM
dudes were too clever for their own good. hands down the best witty banter between songs at a show ever. all on the spot references to ALF and Green Bay. can't be beat.
Posted by: Benny | December 12, 2006 01:21 AM
Ahh, all the download links are broken. I was a huge DVP fan in high school, but I don't have any of their tracks anymore. If you could repost the songs that would be incredible
Posted by: Rob | November 1, 2007 02:52 PM
myspace dot com slash deadviceprez
Posted by: DJ Man Quayle | February 28, 2008 03:46 PM