The Free Houdini

The Free Houdini
Studio album by Themselves
Released 2009
Recorded 2008
Genre Hip-hop, Electronic
Label Anticon
Producer Jel, Doseone
Themselves chronology
The No Music of AIFFS
(2003)
The Free Houdini
(2009)
CrownsDown
(2009)
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The Free Houdini (styled theFREEhoudini) is the third album of original material from Oakland-based rap duo Themselves and a return after a six-year hiatus that saw the members spend the majority of their time on their other band Subtle[1]. The album was made available for 90 days as a one track mp3 for download from the anticon website, later released on 25 March 2009 in a deluxe CD package.

On a sampler of tracks from the album that was available for download from Pitchfork, you can hear that the cLOUDDEAD song Rapping4Money is built from a sample of the Shel Silverstein song "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Not Take The Garbage Out.)"

Track listing

  1. "Pay That Piper"
  2. "Oversleeping"
  3. "Know That to Know This" (ft. Aesop Rock)
  4. "Kick the Ball" (ft. Buck 65)
  5. "1 for No Money" (ft. Sole)
  6. "Rappers Is Interns (Freestyle)"
  7. "Party Rap Sucks" (ft. Busdriver)
  8. "Long Time Coming" (ft. Lionesque)
  9. "Swarm of Bee II"
  10. "Back2burn" (ft. Pedestrian)
  11. "The Mark" (ft. D-Styles)
  12. "Keys to Ignition" (ft. Serengeti)
  13. "Roman Is as Roman Does"
  14. "The Medicine" (ft. Slug)
  15. "Free & Void"
  16. "Rapping 4 Money" (ft. cLOUDDEAD)
  17. "Rappers Is Modelships (Freestyle)" (ft. DJ Baku)
  18. "Puzzled" (ft. Passage & DJ Andrew)
  19. "Cross-section of Wreckage" (ft. Alias & DJ Andrew)
  20. "Each Ant in Their House"