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Dead Prez Let's Get Free

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Vinyl 2LP | 2000 / US – Reissue | New
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Dead Prez may have been slightly ahead of their time during their golden years, but that is definitely meant as a compliment. Sermonizing Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the benefits of a healthy and just lifestyle during the height of the Bad Boy / Roc-A-Fella era of nihilistic excess in the late ‘90s, they also signed to a major label (Loud /
Columbia) despite leaning much more towards the burgeoning indie aesthetics of the day. But this was a good thing – using major label muscle to wake up righteous hip-hop fans who might have fallen asleep at the wheel.

The group itself – consisting of MCs stic.man and M-1, who produced or co-produced most of the duo’s music – was formed in Tallahassee, Florida in the
early 1990s (M-1 originally hailed from Brooklyn). By later that decade, the duo had started making significant waves, having their music heard on the soundtracks to “Soul In The Hole” and “Slam,” as well as appearing on albums by Big Pun and The Beatnuts.

By 1998, they released their first official single, the serious, stark “Police State,” on Loud, appropriately brought to the label by Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian.

After building a solid rep over the next two years with fiery live performances, in 2000 they unleashed their debut album, Let’s Get Free. The album was a welcome return to provocative and often radically political rhetoric that hearkened back to hip-hop forebears including The Coup, Public Enemy and KRS-One (as well as poetic descendants like the Last Poets and Watts Prophets).

Let’s Get Free was critically acclaimed and benefited from multiple singles, including the infectious, thick analog drive of “Hip-Hop” (which became the de facto theme song for “Chappelle’s Show”); “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop,” with a remix co-produced by a young Kanye West; “Mind Sex” (with Abiodun Oyewole of the
Last Poets); and the poignant “I’m An African.”

But the singles weren’t the only worthy songs, as just about every cut here has deeper meaning than most full albums by their early 2000s peers. Highlights:
the thought-provoking, anti-drug album opener “Wolves”; “We Want Freedom” (co-produced by frequent collaborator Hedrush); “They Schools” and “Propaganda”
(co-produced by Lord Jamar, one of five songs he assisted on).

All in all, this is one of the more underrated and possibly Top 5 fully-realized political hip-hop albums of all time. If you don’t agree with the previous sentence, give Let’s Get Free another listen… you might be surprised at how well it has held up over the years."
Item Details
Item No: 427941
Artist: Dead Prez
Title: Let's Get Free
Label: Get On Down
Catalog No: GET51311-LP
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Reissue
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: US Hip Hop
Available since: 2015-07-06
Condition: New
Price: 33,99 €
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Wolves
A2 I´m A African
A3 They schools
A4 Hip Hop
A5 Police State
B1 Behind Enemy Lines
B2 Assassination
B3 Mind Sex
B4 We Want Freedom
B5 Be Healthy
C1 Discipline
C2 Psychology
C3 Happiness
C4 Animal In Man
D1 You´ll Find A Way
D2 It´s Bigger Than Hip-Hop
D3 Propaganda
D4 The Pistol
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