Editing Dead Prez (section)

==Documentary (2006)==
[[File:Dead Prez performing in 2009 (2).jpg|thumb|250px|Dead Prez performing on December 13, 2009]]
In June 2006, the cable movie network [[Starz InBlack]] began airing an original documentary called ''Dead Prez: It's Bigger Than Hip Hop'' directed by [[John Threat]]. The hour-long documentary featured live footage and interviews with dead prez, along with interviews from Kamel Bell, owner of Ankh Marketing and son of incarcerated [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] member [[Herman Bell (BLA)|Herman Bell]]; [[Fred Hampton Jr.]], son of Black Panther Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter [[Fred Hampton]]; Bay Area rapper and poet Ise Lyfe, and hip hop activist and radio personality Davey D. Among the topics discussed in the documentary are the inadequacies of the public education system, Black entrepreneurship and social revolution.

{{quote|Our aim is to provide a programming experience that viewers will not get anywhere else. We like to push the limits and go where other networks fear to tread. We recognized in dead prez a message that deserves to be heard. Not everyone will agree with them, but that's OK. We aim to enlighten and entertain, and 'Dead Prez: It's Bigger than Hip Hop' does both. | author=David Charmatz, senior vice president of channel management | source=talking about the programming philosophy at Starz InBlack<ref name="Frost" />}}

M1 stated: 
<blockquote>We've never had the opportunity to express ourselves on this level of magnitude. Starz InBlack taking a chance on us lets us know that the work we are doing is not in vain. That our message is penetrating, it's getting through.<ref name="Frost">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060525141459/http://www.frostillustrated.com/news/2006/0522/Arts_And_Entertainment/027.html The 'revolution will be televised' as Starz InBlack presents 'Dead Prez: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop.] ''Frost Illustrated.'' Retrieved through web archive on December 6, 2007.</ref></blockquote>