Mutulu Olugbala (born Lavonne Alford, July 25, 1975), better known by his stage name M-1 (sometimes stylized as M1), is an American rapper, songwriter, and activist from Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his work as one half of the political hip hop duo dead prez with stic.man. M-1’s first solo album, Confidential, credited to “Dead Prez Presents M-1,” was released on March 21, 2006, through Sotti/Koch Records.Following Confidential M-1 worked on the album Can’t Sell Dope Forever by Dead Prez & Outlawz. M-1 had the lead role in Broken Rhyme, a 2006 American 90-minute feature film and drama directed and produced by Detdrich McClure. The film premiered at the Filmlife and HBO American Black Film Festival in June 2006 as an Official Selection. M-1 is also a political activist for many black and left-wing causes. In July 2009, M-1 accompanied the Viva Palestina convoy, delivering humanitarian supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.[6] In 2010, M-1 was featured on British-Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour’s single “Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh” (“The Keffiyeh is Arabian”) in her response to the “Israeli Keffiyah”, an attempt by Zionists to rebrand the garment as an Israeli attire. M-1 is a co-founder of Urban Aroma, “a platform for cannabis, art, activism and social equity with editorial and charitable commitments.”

Bonnot (also Walter Buonanno) is a 3x Award Winning composer, a talented musician playing a variety of instruments, a dj and a producer, known mainly for his projects longside the legendary M1 Dead Prez , General Levy and the italian hip hop pioneers Assalti Frontali. In 2013 the 4 Grammy Awards winner Macklermore brought out “M1 Dead Prez & Bonnot” in the “Macklemore & Ryan Lewis” show at the Madison Square Garden (NYC) in front a sold out-20.000 people’s arena. Between the many official remixes he did, we can mention ‘Time Travel’ for Dead Prez feat. Busta Rhymes, Black Thought (The Roots), Bun B, General Levy , presented by Dj Mag UK; then “Stand up Remix” for the legendary Asian Dub Foundation and the “Run” remix from Dub Fx ‘s album “Theory of Harmony”. Bonnot produced for Inoki, Colle Der Fomento & Dj Gruff.He’s the featured artist in Paolo Fresu ‘s album “30!”, one of the world’s most appreciated jazz artist. Although he has always been involved in the underground/urbanmusic scene, Bonnot has won (when he was only 22 years old) awards like the important S.I.A.E. prize as “The Best Italian Independent Composer in 2005/2006” with “Mi sa che stanotte” by Assalti Frontali – the disc itself won the P.I.M.I. award (Italian Independent Music Award) as the best album of the year at M.E.I. Bonnot won the 2nd place at “BEST ITALIAN EVENT AWARDS 2012” for his Sound Design for the monumental video mapping on Milan’s DUOMO.