Dead Prez - Let's Get Free (APPRECIATION THREAD)

[CRAFTY]

I bought the album when it first came out and I bumped the shit out of it. It was something fresh in a time where bling-bling Hip-Hop was at its peak...so to hear an album like this one was a revelation to me at the time. No handclaps, no club-bangers, none of that. Just pure 100% authentic Hip-Hop. It's actually one of the few albums that came out over the last couple of years that I can play without skipping a single track. Hell, even the instrumental "You'll Find A Way" is worth listening to in its entirety.

Now, I do not agree with everything they say (in fact, after reading a Source interview from about a year ago with them I just didn't want to play this album anymore because they really had some racist comments about White people which kind of changed my view on them.) Nevertheless, there's no denying that this is a very tight album. It still surprises me that an album like this one - with very strong political statements - was released on a major.

Anyone else who thinks this album is banging?

[Sikotic™]

Such a great album. I couldn't believe it got released because of how controversial their content was. Great production by M-1 or Stic Man, can't remember who produced. Like you said it was a breath of fresh air back when it dropped. I still bump it every once in awhile, one of my personal favs.

[J Bananas]

they were at Rock the Bells IMO 2nd best set in the whole show. But man play this album for fools who are off point and it changes people; discipline, be healthy are some inspirational songs, you got the song hip hop, I don't have to say anything for that. I have a Dream Too, Animal in Man make u wanna get on some stop the government shit, overall this is one of my favorite records ever.

[Laconic]

Yeah this is a great album..."Animal in Man" based on George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is amazing & "Propaganda" are the strongest tracks IMO.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Have to agree, both production wise and lyrically this album is real dope. This, and the Black Star album both reminded me how dope hiphop can be if done right, at a time when most people really weren't doing it like it should be done.

[Black Uhuru]

Ain't heard lets get free how does it compare to RBG cause thats one ov my fav cds ever

[Da Flamboyant 1]

this album is tight. fight the white man my niggas

[Sikotic™]

Ain't heard lets get free how does it compare to RBG cause thats one ov my fav cds ever

You gotta get Let's Get Free then. It blows RBG away, man. I'll even hook it up if y'all want it.

[CRAFTY]

Yeah, "Let's Get Free" is a lot better than "RBG" in my opinion...

[Black Uhuru]

Props to Educated Thug for hooking it up, lovin Lets Get Free already Animal In Man is deep as a mufucka

[JMan]

^^ no worries... yea "lets get free" is a dope album... Dead Prez be holding it down for the mid west folks, yeah they do have some strong political views but when you listen to the way they put their point across you do end up siding with them..
anyway for me the best track on the whole album is "Mind Sex".... this is really just a dope and overlooked song it may not have politcal views in but what they say works well.. and unlike most hiphop aint about fuckin tha bitch doggy style or skeetin down her throat lol.. 

[Suffice]

this is one of my favorite rap albums of all time. The production and lyrics are nearly flawless, even though i disagree with their racism. I acutally own the OG of this one, and i don't buy CD's

[[sepehr]]

GREAT album...underrated as crap I never see people talking about this so props for the thread crafty...I am still listening to this cd after a long time...

P.S. "Mind Sex" is the shit! 

[TraceOneInfinite]

Props to Crafty for this thread:  For real, as the years pass by, this could be the one album that will stand the test of time and be remembered as  the greatest hip-hop album ever.  If ya'll don't agree that it's the greatest hip-hop album ever, let's atleast agree that it is the most underrated hip-hop album ever.

I was a senior in highschool when this album came out.  Up until that year I was listening to mainly West Coast 'rappers', but Eminem was the first 'emcee' I got heavily into, and he made me put my ear to the ground for underground/mc hip-hop, and I started getting deeper into artists rhyme schemes and really focusing on what an artist was saying.   At the time if came out, Spring 00', my friend had bought the Dead Prez album, and he let me listen to it and when I heard, "They Schools" I was blown away.  I felt like I related to it because the last 4 years of highschool had been a waste to me, I loved learning, but I didn't feel like they were teaching anything relevant to my life at that time.

Every track, from the intro's "Wolves" to the instrumental is worth listening to.  The album is more musical than most hip-hop records, it's fully produced, nothing is rushed.  "Propaganda" is the best political track hip-hop has ever seen, and it becomes more accurate as time passes by, we see today the "media telling lies...and the commercial airplanes (mysteriously) falling out of sky's...".  Infact, forget George Bush, the media and major news corporations are probably the biggest enemy of the people today.  This album fell under the radar I don't think a major label like Loud/Sony would release an album like this in today's political climate.

Other great tracks on the album were "I'm An African", "Hip-Hop", "Assasination", "Mind Sex", "We Want Freedom", and on "Pistol" that 5 percenter cat absolutely kills that verse to close out the album with a bang!

This is a classic, props again to Crafty.     

 

[J Bananas]

fuck it i love this shit so much props for everyone who spoke on the album, except flamboyant.