DEAD PREZ - LETS GET FREE [2LP]

Sony

£27.55

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: 19802826781
Barcode: 0198028267816
Release Date: 21 Mar 2025
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Released via Sony CMG - "Let's Get Free" was the debut studio album by hip-hop duo Dead Prez, originally released in 2000. Critically acclaimed upon its release, Let's Get Free was called a "return to politically conscious rap" and, "the most politically conscious rap since Public Enemy"; the duo's messages also earned them favorable comparisons with Brand Nubian, The Coup, Def Jef and X-Clan. The album's lyrics, performed in front of sparse beats are startlingly direct, militant, and confrontational. M-1 & stic.man excoriates the media, the music industry, politicians, & poverty, & urge their target audience to study socialism and ideas of black power. Rolling Stone gave the album four stars & lauded its equation of "classrooms with jail cells, the projects with killing fields & everything from water to television with conduits for brainwashing by the system".

Side 1
A1. "Wolves" (intro)
A2. "I'm A African"
A3. "They School"
A4. "Hip-Hop"
A5. "Police State" (feat Chairman Omali Yeshitela)
Side 2
B1. "Behind Enemy Lines"
B2. "Assassination"
B3. "Mind Sex"
B4. "We Want Freedom"
B5. "Be Healthy"
Side 3
C1. "Discipline"
C2. "Psychology"
C3. "Happiness"
C4. "Animal In Man"
Side 4
D1. "You'll Find A Way"
D2. "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop" (feat Tahir & Peoples Army)
D3. "Propaganda"
D4. "Propaganda" (feat maintain Of Illegal Tendencies)