The Free Houdini is the third album of original material from Oakland-based rap duo Themselves

Themselves

Themselves is an Oakland-based hip hop group, made up of rapper Doseone and producer Jel . Dax Pierson, from the affiliated group Subtle, has played keyboards for the group, though he is not considered an official member. To date, the group has released three full-length albums and two singles...

 and a return after a six-year hiatus that saw the members spend the majority of their time on their other band Subtlehttp://pitchfork.com/news/34651-themselves-return-from-hiatus-plan-free-mixtape. The album was made available for 90 days as a one track mp3 for download from the anticon

Anticon

Anticon is an Oakland based independent record label founded in 1997. It is collectively owned among six founding artists and one manager...

 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

Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein , was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books...

 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
   Aesop Rock
   Ian Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it...
   
   )
4. "Kick the Ball" (ft. Buck 65
   Buck 65
   Richard Terfry , who uses the stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian experimental artist, MC and turntablist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host,...
   
   )
5. "1 for No Money" (ft. Sole
   Sole (artist)
   Tim Holland, known as Sole, is an alternative hip hop artist and a co-founder of the Anticon collective/label. Sole is known for his dense and often dark stream-of-consciousness style of rapping. His verses are often filled with abstraction, metaphor and sarcasm while avoiding or deconstructing...
   
   )
6. "Rappers Is Interns (Freestyle)"
7. "Party Rap Sucks" (ft. Busdriver
   Busdriver
   Busdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records and Fake Four Inc-History:...
   
   )
8. "Long Time Coming" (ft. Lionesque)
9. "Swarm of Bee II"
10. "Back2burn" (ft. Pedestrian
    Anticon
    Anticon is an Oakland based independent record label founded in 1997. It is collectively owned among six founding artists and one manager...
    
    )
11. "The Mark" (ft. D-Styles)
12. "Keys to Ignition" (ft. Serengeti
    Serengeti (rapper)
    Serengeti, real name David Cohn, is a hip-hop artist from Chicago. His music is a sharp departure from most mainstream hip-hop, which he considers "depressing" and always consists of "the same redundant ideas." Serengeti's music includes numerous references to Chicago culture often done in...
    
    )
13. "Roman Is as Roman Does"
14. "The Medicine" (ft. Slug
    Slug (rapper)
    Sean Michael Daley, better known by his stage name Slug or "'Sep Seven'", is an American rapper. He is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Slug is best known as one fourth of the hip hop group Atmosphere, which he founded with Derek Turner...
    
    )
15. "Free & Void"
16. "Rapping 4 Money" (ft. cLOUDDEAD
    CLOUDDEAD
    Clouddead was a musical group consisting of the experimental hip hop musicians Doseone , Why? , and Odd Nosdam . Generally Drucker and Wolf provide the group's vocals while Madson produces the music...
    
    )
17. "Rappers Is Modelships (Freestyle)" (ft. DJ Baku)
18. "Puzzled" (ft. Passage
    Anticon
    Anticon is an Oakland based independent record label founded in 1997. It is collectively owned among six founding artists and one manager...
    
     & DJ Andrew)
19. "Cross-section of Wreckage" (ft. Alias
    Alias (artist)
    Brendon Whitney, known as Alias, is an abstract hip hop musician and producer. He is mainly affiliated with the anticon. label/collective.-Biography:...
    
     & DJ Andrew)
20. "Each Ant in Their House"
    • All tracks produced by Jel
      Jel
      Jel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...
      
       & Doseone
      Doseone
      Adam Drucker, better known as Doseone , is an American MC, artist, and poet from Idaho. Dose is known for his nasal, high pitched, fast polyrhythmic rapping style and abstract lyrics. He often simultaneously performs synth, sampler, or keyboard on stage. His words tend to express upon topics of...
      
      .