Dead Prez - Let's Get Free (2000) FLAC

Dead Prez – Let's Get Free

Year: 2000-02-08
Genre: Hip-Hop, Rap, Alternative Rap, Underground Rap, Dirty South, Hardcore Rap

Tracklist
01. Wolves (Intro) (02:16)
02. I'm a African (03:19)
03. They School (05:06)
04. Hip-Hop (03:34)
05. Police State (feat. Chairman Omali Yeshitela) (03:40)
06. Behind Enemy Lines (03:03)
07. Assassination (02:00)
08. Mind Sex (04:51)
09. We Want Freedom (04:33)
10. Be Healthy (02:34)
11. Discipline (01:37)
12. Psychology (05:56)
13. Happiness (03:48)
14. Animal In Man (04:31)
15. You'll Find a Way (03:13)
16. It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop (feat. Tahir and People's Army) (03:55)
17. Propaganda (05:12)
18. The Pistol (feat. Maintain of Illegal Tendencies) (04:25)

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Total length: 01:07:33
February 8, 2000
18 Songs, 1 hour, 7 minutes
℗ 2000 Loud Records LLC



Review
Signed to a label (Loud) notorious for its astute thug philosophers (Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Big Pun), Dead Prez's empowering debut, Lets Get Free, seems like a misplaced oddity. Yet the disputatious duo of SticMan and M1 would be an oddity on any label, as they shoulder the burden of revitalizing a genre (problack) which has been seemingly erased from the collective consciousness. Taking social activism to new heights, Dead Prez are the most revolutionary hip-hop group to emerge since Public Enemy lost their audience and N.W.A disbanded. SticMan and M1 chronicle a broad range of politically pressing issues which pertain to the black community -- from the inadequacies of inner-city public schooling ("They Schools") to socially repressive bureaucracies ("Police State"). But Dead Prez are more then just agenda and rhetoric; the group's topical diversity is equally inspiring, seamlessly shifting from the mind-pillaging "Psychology" into the conversational foreplay of "Mind Sex." Yet it is "Animal in Man" that best illustrates just how innovative this group can be.

© Matt Conaway /TiVo


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