Let's Get Free

Let's Get Free is the debut studio album by hip-hop duo dead prez. It was released February 8, 2000^[1] on Loud Records.

Let's Get Free
Studio album by dead prez
Released	February 8, 2000^[1]
Recorded	1998–2000
Genre	Underground hip hop political hip hop
Length	69:30
Label	Loud
Producer	Dead Prez Hedrush Lord Jamar Kanye West
Dead prez chronology
Let's Get Free (2000) RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta (2004)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Chicago Sun-Times	^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[4]
NME	7/10^[5]
Pitchfork	8.2/10^[6]
Rolling Stone	^[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[8]
The Source	3.5/5^[9]

Although the production was derided by some critics as a "dull musical backdrop",^[10] Let's Get Free was called a "return to politically conscious rap".^[11] 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".^[12]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Wolves" (Chairman Omali Yeshitela)	dead prez	2:16
2.	"I'm a African" (additional vocals by Indo and Abu)	Hedrush & dead prez	3:19
3.	"'They' Schools" (chorus vocals by Keanna Henson)	Hedrush & dead prez	5:06
4.	"Hip-Hop"	Hedrush & dead prez	3:33
5.	"Police State" (opening vocals by Chairman Omali Yeshitela)	Hedrush & dead prez	3:40
6.	"Behind Enemy Lines" (phone calls by Ness, Toya and Divine)	Hedrush & dead prez	3:03
7.	"Assassination"	Lord Jamar & dead prez	2:01
8.	"Mind Sex" (additional vocals by Umi, Becca Byram, poem by Abiodun Oyewole)	dead prez	4:51
9.	"We Want Freedom" (additional vocals from "The Spook Who Sat by the Door")	Hedrush & dead prez	4:33
10.	"Be Healthy" (additional vocals by Prodigy)	Hedrush & dead prez	2:34
11.	"Discipline" (phone call by Dedan and Nimrod)	dead prez	1:37
12.	"Psychology" (additional vocals by True Image, poem read by Umi)	Lord Jamar & dead prez	5:56
13.	"Happiness"	Lord Jamar & dead prez	3:48
14.	"Animal in Man"	dead prez	4:31
15.	"You'll Find a Way"	dead prez	3:13
16.	"It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop" (featuring Tahir and People's Army)	Kanye West & dead prez	3:55
17.	"Propaganda" (additional vocals by Becca Byram, ending vocals by Huey Newton)	Lord Jamar & dead prez	5:14
18.	"The Pistol" (featuring Maintain of Illegal Tendencies)	Lord Jamar & dead prez	4:27

Album singles

Single information
"Police State" Released: October 27, 1998 B-side: "Police State" (without intro)
"Hip-Hop" Released: March 30, 1999 B-side: "Selling D.O.P.E."
"It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop" Released: December 7, 1999 B-side: "Hip-Hop"
"I'm a African" Released: 2000 B-side: "The Pistol"
"Mind Sex" Released: August 15, 2000 B-side: "Happiness"

Personnel

• stic.man – lead vocals, production, executive producer, art direction
• M-1 – lead vocals, production, executive producer, art direction
• Hedrush – production, drum programming
• Lord Jamar – production
• Kanye West – production
• Tahir (of Hedrush) – vocals
• Maintain (of Illegal Tendencies) – vocals
• Indo (of People's Army) – additional vocals
• Abu (of People's Army) – additional vocals
• Keanna Henson – additional vocals
• Ness (of A-Alikes) – additional vocals
• Toya (of People's Army) – additional vocals
• Divine (of People's Army) – additional vocals
• Umi – additional vocals
• Becca Byram – additional vocals, keyboards
• Abiodun Oyewole (of The Last Poets) – additional vocals
• Prodigy (of Mobb Deep) – additional vocals
• Dedan (of Illegal Tendencies) – additional vocals
• Nimrod (of Illegal Tendencies) – additional vocals
• True Image – additional vocals
• Mark Batson – keyboards
• Christos Tsantilios – recording, mixing
• Blair Wells – recording
• Nastee – recording
• Doug Wilson – mixing
• Bernard Grubman – guitar
• Pressure of Fambase – keyboards
• Melvin Gibbs – bass
• Laura J. Seaton-Finn – strings
• Joshua – horns
• Mista Sinista (of The X-Ecutioners) – scratching
• Sean Cane – drums, executive producer
• Matt Life – executive producer
• Schott Free – executive producer
• Stuart "Kamau" Lyle – cover concept
• Kerry DeBruce – art direction, design
• Lorraine West – illustration
• Anthony Cutajar – album photography
• Saba – road photography
• Corbis – archival images

Charts

Album

Chart (2000)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[13]	73
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[14]	22

Singles

Title	Year	Chart positions
		US Rap
"Hip-Hop"	1999	49
"It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop"	2000	43

References

1. https://deadprez.com/blogs/2/let-s-get-free^{[dead link]}
2. Conaway, Matt. "Let's Get Free – Dead Prez". AllMusic. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
3. Kyles, Kyra (June 11, 2000). . Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
4. Takahashi, Corey (March 17, 2000). "Let's Get Free". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
5. Capper, Andy (March 4, 2000). . NME. Archived from the original on April 12, 2000. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
6. Kameir, Rawiya (November 3, 2019). "dead prez: Let's Get Free Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
7. Ex, Kris (May 11, 2000). . Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 19, 2008. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
8. Caramanica, Jon (2004). "Dead Prez". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 221. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
9. "Dead Prez: Let's Get Free". The Source (126): 246. March 2000.
10. . Archived from the original on 2004-06-18.
11. . Archived from the original on 2004-12-08.
12. Ex, K. . Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2005-02-18.
13. "Dead Prez Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
14. "Dead Prez Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 3, 2019.