dead prez - Happiness

Happiness is all in the mind, let's unwind and find a reason to smile.

Album: Let's Get Free [debut album]
Genre: Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
Album Release: February 8th 2000
Length: 3.49
Producer: Lord Jamar
Vocalist: M-1 & Stic-Man
Label: Loud Records

Official Audio


1998 version

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 2 million
YouTube Music: Over 1 million

Credits

Sampled from Santos Colon - Te Esperare (1971)

Details

• The producer Lord Jamar is a member of the hip hop crew Brand Nubian.
  
  
• A version of the track was released on Dead Prez's 1998 EP 'These Are The Times'.
  
  
• The two rappers met while they were students at Florida A&M University.
  
  
• Dead Prez is stylised as 'dead prez' with no capital letters. The band know you're supposed to capitalise a proper noun and make a deliberate choice not to. It's an act of rebellion which fits well with the groups image and conditions the listener into expecting the breaking of norms.
  
  
• The song 'Happiness' espouses the virtues of a natural life and healthy eating "I put the great mother nature on a pedestal." This is in line with the rest of dead prez's music which also calls for self discipline and respecting women.
  
  
  
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