[2] They have also performed and collaborated with artists including Public Enemy,[3] Dead Prez, Jeru the Damaja, and Boot Camp Click.
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.
[9] 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.” [10] 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.
In 1993 they performed their anti-sexist song “Lady Killer” at North York City Hall for that year's commemoration of the École Polytechnique massacre.
The THC hosted community events involving all the elements of HipHop and offered computer access, homework assistance, general advice and job counseling to local youth.
The record focuses on world politics dropped with “constantly morphing… tongue twisting flows”[14] and an army of guest contributors including award-winning musicians, rappers, singers and producers.
[16] In the song, ProfessorD.us raps about Haiti's under-heralded place in history as the site of the world's greatest slave revolution and of that nation's continued oppression by The USA, France and Canada, under the guise of foreign aid.
The song is ProfessorD.us and M-1's sharp response to all those who ask, “Why is your music always so political?”[15] dead prez, like the Dope Poet Society, cite Public Enemy as a major influence, and the groups consolidated their revolutionary camaraderie while sharing various stages around the world.