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 on Loud Records.

Critical reception

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

Track listing

Album singles

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

Singles

References

Dead Prez albums

Loud Records albums

2000 debut albums

Albums produced by Kanye West

Albums produced by Lord Jamar