Labels:text | screenshot | font | document OCR: SPEARHEAD: FORMER HERO HITS THE HIGHWAY Upon meeting Michael Franti, the creative force behind hybrid hip-hop act Spearhead, two things are immediately dear: First, he's big. Real big. (6'6" to be exact.) Second, he's extremely intense and highly literate. Of course, that wouldn't surprise anyone who is familiar with the work of his last group, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy. As the group's lyrical half, Franti hammered away at the "United States of Unconscious" with hard-driving raps about TV drones, homo- phobia, the "psychic plastic surgery" enacted on blacks, and the Mercedes logos that have replaced peace signs around the necks of our nation's youth. Heady stuff, and all of it cleverly and passionately articulated over discordant, chaotic beats. The group's one and only album, Hiphop ...
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