Okay so is this new album FINALLY the official Dead Prez follow-up to Let's Get Free and is it any good?

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I admit I was a lot more excited about hearing this before they completely lowered my expectations by releasing a couple of subpar mixtapes, but I'm still curious (and after ALL the anticipation when it finally seems to have dropped it sorta quietyly.) Anyway is it good?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

it wasn't that quietly. lots of commercials and a big jay-z remix and everything. i've only heard walk like a warrior with krayzie bone and hell yeah. they're both okay and i might pick it up if i see it next week, it's supposed to be good.

― William Wiggins, Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be listening to it, Dilated Peoples, Cypress Hill, Automato AND Dj Signify today. So I'll comment later. Very good cover art though!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to it at Virgin Megastore. The production is boring, the message/lyrics are as trite as political hip-hop gets.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i love it. but the pre-release version floating around on the internet had like 6 more songs.

you think the production on hell yeah is boring? ha

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 4 April 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I second,

From a huge hip hop fan:
Production is boring
Content racist
viod of so-called political hip-hop
Could have been way better
Everything they put out after "Bigger than hip hop" has been lackluster

― jj, Sunday, 4 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused, you guys are talking about RBG? Didn't that come out like nine months ago? I like it, although I agree that some of the sentiment misfires. The song that I really like is Twenty (or is it the Twenty, I don't know. And you say they left some tracks off the final release, I hope they didn't omit that one).

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 4 April 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything they put out after "Bigger than hip hop" has been lackluster
-- jj (j...), April 4th, 2004 12:23 AM.

i hear ya.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Sunday, 4 April 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cop Shot" was lackluster?!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 4 April 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

some of my favorite lyrics from the album:

"the white man got the wealth/ we held back" -- walk like a warrior

"hidin in the corridor til we see the dominos headlights/ white boy in the wrong place at the right time/ as soon as the car door open up he mine/ "-hell yeah

"then them crackers tried to arrest me" -- for the hood

― 7777, Sunday, 4 April 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say the release was fairly quiet, I'd been hearing different release dates and shit for months, but had no idea that it was actually in stores until I saw it on the racks last week. but then I haven't been home to watch Rap City much lately so maybe I missed the tv ads.

I don't like how they changed the beat on the "Hell Yeah" rmx.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 4 April 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"20" is a hidden track and one of the better songs on the album. I hate when they do this w/hidden tracks. I do think a lot of the production is a little boring/subdued (as is a lot of the rhetoric). Nothing as explosive as "Hip-Hop" here. The Jay-Z cameo is very tossed off. The other version of "Hell Yeah" you are talking about is on there as another hidden track as well, I think. I just got it in the mail at the radio station on friday, but that probably doesn't tell anyone anything.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i think that, apart from their very POLITICAL lyrics (which aren't actually very intelligent), this is very hit and miss, like their mixtapes. One of them has some flow, but really, this is neither particularly underground On Sony), political (no solutions, uses lots of cliches), or well-produced (bass hums and southern bounce, but not enough of either).

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 5 April 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

fourteen years pass...

No solutions

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