Sunz of Man Presents Hell Razah & 4th Disciple - Freedom of Speech

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Intro: Slavery - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Rebel Music - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Article One - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
High Science - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
One Harmony - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
House-Pitality - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Oh! Baby - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Way Of Life - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Baby Girl - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Take Ya Time - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Same Ol' Thugs - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Project Love - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Who Gonna Die Next? - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Angel Tears - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
We Can Do That Too - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Underground To Da Heavans - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Don't Hate It - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
Pimpology - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
R.A.Z.A.H. - Hell RazahDownload & Buy
We The People - Hell RazahDownload & Buy

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Album Details: Freedom of Speech

Release Date:: 10/26/2004
Label:: Cleopatra
UPC:: 741157141825

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Originally a late'90s WuTang offshoot, the Sunz of Man collective went through quite a number of transformations, with group membership changing with each subsequent release, their Freedom of Speech release being no exception. This electionyear release (streeting a week before the 2004 BushKerry vote) is essentially a twoman effort, featuring Hell Razah and 4th Disciple, and it's a fierce one politically charged and musically impressive. Songs like "Rebel Music" and "Article One" are streetlevel political in a sense mostly unheard since the good old days of Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, Paris, and Ice Cube. Not only do these Sunz of Man have an agenda, it's a coherent one and very reasonable not as extreme as Dead Prez, not as utopian as the more idealistic rants of Nas, and not as soft as Talib Kweli. Plus, they're angry but not too angry they express a mood of disenfranchisement, not one of anarchy. All of this is great a refreshing sense of hood politics in an age of poprap duets and club songs but it's all the more greater because of 4th Disciple's production. He contributes most of the beats on this album (the first 14 tracks), and they're all stimulating, original, and dense. They're distinctly hardcore and never routine, sometimes powered by samples, other times strictly beatdriven. When you have both great raps as well as beats as you do here you have a great rap album, and Freedom of Speech certainly stands out as a surprisingly great album relative to Sunz of Man's previous albums, most of which were spotty at best. Perhaps it's the twoman effort that give the album the focus it needs. These guys are no doubt talented, and it's nice to hear them shine without the usual overabundance of guest features. The first half of the album is especially strong. From the intro through "Baby Girl" (track nine), Freedom of Speech is wonderful; granted, it loses its focus as it winds its way toward its distant 20track conclusion, but even the secondrate second half is above average for underground hardcore rap. A really pleasant surprise, this especially inspired album is not really representative of previous Sunz of Man efforts, but arguably the best release yet to carry the group's billing.

- Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

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Another of the many outgrowths of the Wu-Tang Clan, rappers the Sunz of Man comprised 60 Sec Assassin, Killah Priest, Prodigal Sunn, and Hell Razah. Their debut LP, The Last Shall Be First, appeared in 1998 on Red Ant. Saviorz Day followed in 2002 fo...Full Sunz of Man Presents Hell Razah & 4th Disciple Biography