| Let's Get Free | ||||
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| Released | February 8, 2000 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 1998–2000 | |||
| Genre | Political hip hop | |||
| Length | 69:30 | |||
| Label | Loud | |||
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Let's Get Free is the debut studio album by hip-hop duo dead prez. It was released on February 8, 2000, on Loud Records.
| Review scores | |
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| 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 | [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]
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 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 |
| Single information |
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"Police State"
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"Hip-Hop"
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"It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop"
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"I'm a African"
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"Mind Sex"
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| Chart (2000) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200 [13] | 73 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [14] | 22 |
| Title | Year | Chart positions |
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| US Rap | ||
| "Hip-Hop" | 1999 | 49 |
| "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop" | 2000 | 43 |
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