Stic.man
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stic.man with dead prez at Resistance Festival, Athens, 2009
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| Birth name | Clayton Gavin |
| Also known as | Khnum Muata Ibomu |
| Born | 1974 Shadeville, Florida, USA |
| Origin | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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Khnum Muata ”STIC” Ibomu or Clayton Gavin, better known by his stage name stic.man, is an American rapper, activist and author known for his work as one half of the political hip-hop duo Dead Prez with M-1.
Khnum Muata Ibomu was born February 22, 1973 the rural unincorporated community of Shadeville, Florida . He studied at James S. Rickards and Wakulla High Schools.
In 1990, while in the 10th grade at Wakulla, Gavin was prevented from performing a rap song entitled "Black As I Can Get" for a Black History Month assembly. The incident prompted students to boycott classes following the assembly and lead to a picket of the school joined by parents.
Following a diagnosis of gout when he was 21, stic.man stopped drinking and smoking, started practicing Jeet Kune Do and began following a vegan diet.
stic.man formed the hip-hop duo dead prez with M-1 after the two met at Florida A&M University. After a chance meeting with Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar at a Brooklyn block party, the two signed a recording deal with Loud Records, which in 2000 released Let's Get Free. The pair went on to release RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta in 2004. stic.man was arrested at a Crown Heights photo shoot in 2003 after refusing to show identification to police officers. He and two others were arrested again at the O'Hare International Airport in 2004 for refusing to take off their headphones prior to takeoff.
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