This Year Marks the 20th Anniversary of Let’s Get Free
Great music is timeless, and like a diamond, it lasts forever. Unblemished with zero flaws, becoming more relevant, increasing in value with each passing generation. Music is rarely about the drum, but the words and message behind it. Used to teach, rally and motivate. Though most importantly, when it hits, you should feel no pain.
No album in music history encompasses all those traits more than lets get free by dead prez. Taking more than two years to produce, and involving dozens of collaborators, it’s known as one of the most perfect bodies of work not only in Hip Hop but in music history. An eclectic symphony of Hip Hip, Classical, and Jazz beats, over politically conscious rhymes similar to that of Bob Marley and Public Enemy, merged with the street rawness of NWA.
Dropped in February 2000, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of lets get free. Our team had an exclusively interviewed Stic- Khnum Muata Ibomu-, one half of the hip hop duo dead prez. We spoke about dead prez collaborating with Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian, The Last Poets, and using samples from documentaries, Black Panther Speeches, and movies like Spook Who Sat By The Door.
We also conversed on their first contract negations with the record label, and he has words of encouragement for those facing isolation during these trying times.
The Q & A style interview will premiere this weekend. You don’t want to miss it.