Way back in 2000, legendary hip-hop duo dead prez declared that “It’s bigger than hip-hop” on their group-defining track “Hip-Hop.” Old heads and new heads alike flocked to the track and regarded it as a staple of classic hip-hop. The duo had been together for a while, but it wasn’t until this record dropped that their music started gaining some widespread attention.

Last month, dead prez headed back to Tallahassee where they first met in 1990. They played a 4/20 show for FAMU students and linked up with an up-and-coming Florida crew, Nefa Zoo. The duo recorded a new track with one of Nefa Zoo’s members, Trx. This was the first song they recorded in Tallahassee since the 90’s. The collaboration resulted in “Time Travel,” a spaced-out track unlike anything dead prez has been a part of before.

stic.man and M-1 sound right at home on this one. stic.man spits a hot 16 about his new love — running and M-1 raps about traveling through time. Trx provides the hook, and all together, the three sound right at home on this track. “Time Travel” is the first single off of Trx’s new mixtape dropping this summer, Free The Animals.

Be sure to follow Trx on Twitter and the rest of Nefa Zoo to stay updated.

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Yasiin, Dead Prez and Mike Flo come together to make a tribute to Trayvon Martin. When we see artists go out their way to address an issue and take time out to speak on it without the media urging them to, we must respect that. The track sounds powerful and we’ll keep you posted on when the full track is released. Read the transcript of what Yasiin had to say about hip-hop’s role in speaking out.

“What is it really about at the end of the day? Particularly – if you come from poor communities, or you come from black communities in this country and you see a casual systemic indifference to black life…you have to respond. It’s in your own self-interest. It’s not even outstanding or courageous. It’s a survival issue. Either we’re gonna fix this or we’re gonna just agree to be slaves. And that don’t honor nothing that we’ve ever been about. It don’t honor the legacy of everybody that came before us.

I know when it’s to promote an project or album, or to stunt or to have a photo op moment, cats is there in their best and brightest and they’re early. They not tardy with it. It’s a priority. So if this not a priority, then what is?”

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