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Smart Intelligent was the business lead MC for golden age group hip-hop group Poor Righteous Educators, a Trenton, NJ-based trio well-versed in Five Percent Country ideology. The publicity of their jazz-driven hip-hop had not been on the level of Brand Nubian or A Tribe Known as Mission, but PRT do …

Area of the developing contingent of Islamic-oriented message rappers, Poor Righteous Educators formed in Trenton, NJ, when teenage close friends Culture Independence and Smart Intelligent (songwriting credits are listed while S. Phillips and T. Grimes) made a decision to form a far more positive rap group instead of the gangsta …