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The Dope Poet Society is a hip hop group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Their music is characterized by clever and sometimes controversial lyrics.〔(Hip Hop Linguistics, Canadian Hip-Hop Duo Promotes Conscious Intelligence )〕 ProfessorD.us (formerly Professor D) is the lead vocalist of the group, known for his tongue twisting, “rapid fire” rap style. The group has been active since 1995 and has toured around the world.〔(Youtube.com, Dope Poets on World Tour Intro'd by Chuck D )〕 They have also performed and collaborated with some of the most influential artists in Hip Hop including Public Enemy,〔(Exclaim Magazine, Canada's premier political rap group )〕 Dead Prez,〔(Amazon.com, Everything's Political )〕 Jeru the Damaja,〔(Amazon.com In Action or Inaction )〕 and Boot Camp Click. Professor D changed his name to ProfessorD.us with the release of his 2008 album, ''Third World Warriors Vol.1'', which lists the artist as "ProfessorD.us - The Dope Poet Society". ==History== The Dope Poet Society, in their early teens, recorded a song and music video for YTV, entitled ''Canadian Unity'' (1992). The group founded Justus League Records and released their first vinyl single and music video, "Too Many Years" (1995), which appeared on Rapcity and was featured on MuchMusic's Indie Spotlight. Their debut album, ''Dangerous Days'' (1997), was the first full-length CD to be independently released by a Canadian hip hop group. It was credited by ''Now'' as "fostering a… sense of community" in Toronto’s hip hop scene.〔(Now Magazine, Poets’ Hip Hop Mission )〕 Their second album, ''Hipolitics'' (1999), spawned their first major hit, "Fuck Mike Harris!"〔(Youtube.com Fuck Mike Harris! Live )〕 In their review of the EP, ''Now'' wrote, “If Dalton McGuinty or Howard Hampton (provincial opposition leaders of the time ) wanted to really make their point with the youth, they'd adopt the lead cut on this five-song EP as their campaign theme song.”〔(Now Magazine, Hipolitics Review )〕 The song became a huge hit on college radio across the province and across the country. Public Enemy frontman, Chuck D, began playing the song on his internet radio show on bringthenoise.com and began a relationship with the group which led to mentorship and collaboration.〔 The Dope Poet Society is known for quickly responding to political events with critical material.〔(Toronto Star, Music meant to have a message )〕 In 2000, they became the first group to release a song “dissing” George W. Bush, and condemning him as a “terrorist".〔(Ibid. )〕 Two weeks after September 11, 2001, the group released their CD ''9/11 World Trade''. In the title track they allude to Malcolm X’s likening John F. Kennedy's assassination to "chickens coming home to roost", implying that September 11 was another case of "the chickens coming home to roost". In 2003, in response to the US’s invasion of Iraq, The Dope Poet Society released the single "War of Terrorism". The song was debuted at Toronto’s Metro Hall to a crowd of 80,000 anti-war protestors on February 15, 2003.〔(New Socialist Magazine, Promoting Intelligence: Toronto duo stokes the fire... )〕 Jeff Chang wrote in the UK’s ''New Internationalist'', “The Dope Poet Society's song 'War of Terrorism', challenged the moral righteousness of the war and echoed many anti-war activists' concerns that far more insidious motives were driving it.” 〔(Sounds of Dissent, New Internationalist )〕 In an article commissioned by The Centre for Political Song at Glasgow University, Janis McNair notes that "The Dope Poet Society’s track War of Terrorism, expressed a fundamental conjecture of anti-war protestors: the root of the conflict is oil." 〔(Make Music, Not War )〕 The title of the group’s third CD, “ProIntelPro: Promote Intelligence Program” is a play on the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations, as the group’s self-proclaimed aim is to “promote intelligence rather than counter it”. The Dope Poet Society was the first Canadian Urban act to perform at MIDEM, the world's largest music conference. They were introduced by Chuck D and joined on stage by Canadian rap godfather Maestro and up-and-comer Rochester.〔(XXL Mag, Maestro Fresh Wes on hip-hop up top )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dope Poet Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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