Malcolm & Martin Life isn’t simple. It isn’t all a sparkling bling-bling fantasy of ostentatious gems, flowing champagne, and easy women. Nor is life all an endless collage of dishwater gray street corners, survival wounds, and exhaustive toil for blood money or indebted checks of servitude. Life is more because men are more than a fantasy or nightmare. Yet, few contemporary rap griots have presented a 360 world of men whose lives are more than stereotypes. For hip hop storytellers who represent the real men beyond menacing phantoms or Peter Pan high-lifers, DJ Revolution Presents Malcolm and Martin. Together DJ Revolution, Styliztik Jones, and KB Imean represent the first new rap group to emerge in a generation, a true collective of movement men who aren’t afraid to party with a purpose. Remember when hip hop represented a movement for the people by the people? The New York-born, Massachusetts bred DJ Revolution certainly does. Now one of the world's premier DJs, a young Revolution was present during the “golden age” of hip hop when his heroes DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Public Enemy, and Melle Mel were speaking the lives of a generation. Revolution remembers the proud spirit and uplifting energy that formed hip hop culture, before the money came and the game changed. As an internationally respected DJ and producer, Revolution’s skills have privileged the tracks of such hip hop luminaries as Canibus, Mystic, Chino XL, Dilated Peoples, The Alkaholiks and many more. Those skills were optimally displayed on his three critically-acclaimed solo and collaborative projects with King Tech and MTV’s Sway, including R2K, King of The Decks, and In 12s We Trust. As one of the renowned spin doctors hosting, producing and editing the longest-running internationally syndicated commercial hip hop show, “The Wake Up Show,” Revolution has also gained the esteem of fans from around the globe. Through more than two decades of success as a DJ, producer, and TV and film scorer for networks like MTV and films like Jet Li’s Black Mask, DJ Revolution never forgot those early years and the promise of hip hop. The voices of Malcolm & Martin, KB iMean and Styliztik Jones represent the fulfillment of that promise, the bridging of East and West Coast, of street and conscious. The boy from Queensbridge and his counterpart in South Central learned about rap before conscious was a synonym for self-righteous and gangstas sewed lessons in tales. At his Black Panther father’s knee, KB studied Huey Newton’s Revolutionary Suicide and Mobb Deep. Overlooking the Pacific, Styliztik poured over the Autobiography of Malcolm X while listening to Coltrane. Fate brought the teens together in high school after Styliztik moved to San Fernando Valley, and eventually joined up with The Liquid Crew. Soon the writing partners and crate diggers were making music, keeping one another encouraged to greatness, struggling to find legal means for survival, and dazzling fans up and down the Pacific Coast Highway with their smooth style and intelligent rhymes. KB and Styliztik's relentless grind eventually gained the attention of DJ Revolution at the legendary Wake Up show. Recognizing the dynamic duo’s rare lyrical wit and throwback flows of butter cool masculinity, it wasn’t long before the trio was huddled in the studio crafting the DJ Revolution produced Malcolm and Martin: Movement Music mixtape. The results were the kind of political teachings, comedic tales, and jazzy soul street symphonies absent from much of hip hop in recent years. Guesting visionaries included slam poet Saul Williams and Bambu from Native Gunz. Encouraged by the original Civil Rights icons, the trio reverentially took on the moniker Malcolm & Martin to announce new leaders for a new movement. Following the critical success of their foundation-laying mixtape “Movement Music” Malcolm & Martin engaged in hard labor for their follow-up, DJ Revolution Presents Malcolm and Martin "Life Doesn't Frighten Me", their first full-length commercial release and SoulSpazm Records debut. Fans can expect more aggressive funk, progressive jazz, ‘70s wah wah soul, nourishing knowledge for the head and plenty of bangers to relieve life’s tension. From the infectious single “Win or Lose” to the introspections of “Against The Wall” the team brings more thoughtful social commentary and grimy urban tales from the ashes of broken promises and eternal dreamers. DJ Revolution Presents Malcolm and Martin will rock the block and inspire the young to think, to dream. No sermons, no stereotypes, just life in 360.