Let’s Get Free

Description

‘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 and stic.man excoriates the media, the music industry, politicians, and poverty, and urge their target audience to study socialism and ideas of black power. Rolling Stone gave the album four stars and lauded its equation of ‘classrooms with jail cells, the projects with killing fields and everything from water to television with conduits for brainwashing by the system’.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Wolves (Intro) – Dead Prez (2.16)
2. I’m a African – Dead Prez (3.20)
3. They School – Dead Prez (5.06)
4. Hip-hop – Dead Prez (3.34)
5. Police State (Feat. Chairman Omali Yeshitela) – Dead Prez (3.41)
6. Behind Enemy Lines – Dead Prez (3.03)
7. Assasination – Dead Prez (2.01)
8. Mind Sex – Dead Prez (4.51)
9. We Want Freedom – Dead Prez (4.34)
10. Be Healthy – Dead Prez (2.34)
Disc 2
1. Discipline – Dead Prez (1.37)
2. Psychology – Dead Prez (5.56)
3. Happiness – Dead Prez (3.49)
4. Animal in Man – Dead Prez (4.31)
5. You’ll Find a Way – Dead Prez (3.14)
6. It’s Bigger Than Hip-hop (Feat. Tahir and People’s Army) – Dead Prez (3.56)
7. Propaganda – Dead Prez (5.12)
8. The Pistol (Feat. Maintain of Illegal Tendencies) – Dead Prez (4.50)