Wise Intelligent has stayed very busy since his days with pioneering Trenton, New Jersey collective the Poor Righteous Teachers. The man who once battled Jay Z (when Jay was rollin’ with both Jaz-O and DeHaven. Since the late ’90s, Wise has maintained his socially-informed messages, and gotten more aggressive in his deliveries. Peep this new rhyming essay on the state of Hip-Hop, “The Walking Dead.”

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