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Liberated from his Warner Bros. contract and free to release music solely on his terms, Prince put out this colossal triple album—exactly three hours of music—in November 1996. Arriving just four months after "Chaos and Disorder" and released via a one-off agreement with NPG Records and EMI, "Emancipation" is a sprawling affair recorded at Paisley Park, one that Prince called "my most important record." The grooves here were new and upbeat, and the themes of the songs range from love, sex and romance to family to technology. He also covers Bonnie Raitt ("I Can’t Make You Love Me"), Joan Osborne ("One of Us" and the Philly soul classics "Betcha by Golly Wow" and "La La Means I Love You" (styled in the Prince way: "La, La, La Means I Love U," with an eye image for the "I"). "Emancipation" returns now as a reissue of the long-out-of-print 3-CD package and also as a first-time vinyl set: six purple LPs in a slipcase with printed jackets and inner sleeves. The aforementioned tracks join "Jam of the Year," "Right Back Here in My Arms," "Somebody’s Somebody," "Get Yo Groove On," "We Gets Up," "White Mansion," "Sex in the Summer," "Curious Child," "Dreamin’ About U," "Joint 2 Joint," "Let’s Have a Baby," "Saviour," "Style," "Slave," "The Human Body," "Sleep Around," "My Computer," the title cut…"Emancipation" is back, and finally on vinyl, too! Sony Legacy.