Editing Let's Get Free (section)

==Background==
During [[Stic.man]] attendance at [[Florida A&M University|Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University]] in the mid-90s, he met [[M-1 (rapper)|M-1]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Grove|first=Rashad|url=https://www.bet.com/article/tuei8r/stic-man-documenting-hip-hop-50-wellness-is-the-future-of-the-culture|title=Stic.man of dead prez on Legacy, Wellness in Hip Hop, and Partnering with eBay & Kirpa Auction House for Hip Hop 50|work=[[BET]]|date=August 23, 2023|accessdate=April 26, 2025}}</ref>{{sfn|Burney|2025|at=para. 2}} Once relocating to [[Brooklyn]] after FAMU, due to their mutual love for music and similar political ideology ([[leftist]]), they both formed a rap duo in 1996.{{sfn|Burney|2025|at=para. 2}}{{sfn|Belle|2014|p=296}}

In the same year that dead prez was formed, they signed a record deal with label [[Loud Records]].<ref name="album background">{{cite web|last=Caputo|first=Matt|url=https://hiphopdx.com/interviews/id.1575/title.dead-prez-lets-get-free-10th-anniversary-feature|title=dead prez: Let's Get Free 10th Anniversary Feature|work=[[HipHopDX]]|date=July 29, 2010|accessdate=April 26, 2025}}</ref>

In a 2010 interview with [[HipHopDX]], M-1 goes in depth about the beginning of the process of recording ''Let's Get Free''. {{blockquote|According to me, it started when I met [stic.man]. The reason I always put it in that context is because we were soon to be revolutionaries. On the mission to make sense of what was happening inside the world, I met stic and I'd just moved to Florida to start a new chapter in my life. My family was being destroyed by crack cocaine just like [he] was and so many families were around us. We started to put together our analysis of the world which then came to include the analysis of a revolutionary party called the [[Uhuru Movement]] and from there, I was able to put on a new set of glasses that would inform me of how I would need to move in the future in order to change these circumstances and so on and so fourth. So all of this growth is what you hear on Let's Get Free. The actually recording of the album didn't happen until six years after we met.<ref name="album background"/>}}