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40oz. to Freedom is the 1992 debut album by the Southern California ska-punk and dub band Sublime. 40oz. to Freedom received mixed critical reviews upon its first release, but is now generally approved as a sincere record, with many spots of brilliance and ingenuity. Sublime would not achieve any mainstream success until the release of their eponymous album, two months after the overdose death of their lead singer and guitarist, Bradley Nowell, in 1996 (see 1996 in music).

40oz. to Freedom is one of the most popular albums released in the third-wave of ska. Its sound blended various forms of Jamaican music, including ska (Date Rape), rocksteady (“5446 That’s My Number”), roots reggae (“Smoke Two Joints”) and dub (“Let’s Go Get Stoned”, “D.J.s”) with British and American hardcore punk (“New Thrash”, “Hope”), hip hop (“Scarlet Begonias”) and folk music (“Rivers of Babylon”).

Since its release in 1992, the album has proved to be a seller over time, moving over 2,000,000 copies in the US alone and being certified Multi Platinum by the RIAA. It was Sublime’s first successful album. Although the album was released in 1992, it hit its peak on the Billboard 200 in 1995 after the band had risen in popularity.