Lumumba Carson known by his stage name

Stage name

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s Baba Professor X the Overseer, Professor X, or PXO was born the son of Brooklyn-based activist Sonny Carson. Carson was a founding member of the Hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 group X-Clan

X-Clan

X-Clan is a hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York, originally consisting of Grand Verbalizer Funkin' Lesson Brother J, Professor X The Overseer, Paradise the Architect, and Sugar Shaft the Rhythm Provider...

 and is featured in nearly all songs on the albums To the East, Blackwards

To the East, Blackwards

To The East, Blackwards was the debut album from hip hop group X-Clan.The lyrics heavily promote Afrocentrism, railing against racism and socioeconomic oppression of African-Americans. Brother J serves as the main MC, while Professor X punctuates verses with powerful declarations and recitations of...

(1990) and Xodus

Xodus

Xodus: The New Testament is the second album from Brooklyn-based hip hop group X-Clan. Xodus is a sample-heavy ode to spiritualism and black nationalism...

(1992) prior to a temporary break-up of the group. Carson died from complications associated with spinal meningitis

Meningitis

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 in 2006.

External links

• X-Clan Music (X-Clan official website)