360 Degrees of Power

360 Degrees of Power is the only full-length studio album by American rapper, author, and activist Sister Souljah. It was released in January 1992 through Epic Records. The recording sessions took place at Greene St. Recording, in New York. The album was produced by Street Element and the LG Experience. It features guest appearances from Chuck D, Ice Cube, and Ras Baraka. It reached number 72 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and sold only 27,000 copies in the United States. It produced two singles: "Final Solution" and "The Hate That Hate Produced". Music videos of off the albums' songs were banned by MTV.

The album was met with criticism, not only for its performances—most of which were angry spoken-word tirades that Souljah screamed rather than traditional hip-hop rhymes—but also because of its controversial lyrics.

Critical reception
Dennis Hunt of the Los Angeles Times called the album "a stark, disturbing primer on black power", writing that Sister Souljah "uses crude street language and scathing humor to convey her controversial ideas". The Deseret News wrote that "the record fails by being too dogmatic to be entertaining, too hateful to be inspiring, too shallow in its musical and lyrical reach to be catchy." Trouser Press wrote that "Souljah’s militant Afrocentricity contains such positive elements as self-reliance, self-defense, entrepreneurship, unity and education, but proceeds into paranoia ... syllogism ... and absurd sexism".

Personnel

 * Al "Purple" Hayes – backing vocals, guitar, bass
 * Djinji Brown – backing vocals, engineering assistant
 * Robert "The Epitome of Scratch" Taylor – backing vocals
 * Chris Champion – backing vocals
 * Derrick Brooks – backing vocals
 * Erin Jenkins – backing vocals
 * Jimi Fox – backing vocals
 * Kedding Etienne – backing vocals
 * Kimberly Davis – backing vocals
 * Liz Psaros – backing vocals
 * Ras Baraka – backing vocals
 * Charles Dos Santos – engineering
 * Chris Shaw – engineering
 * Dan Wood – engineering
 * Jamie Staub – engineering
 * Tamara Wilson – engineering assistant
 * Carlton Batts – mastering
 * Dave Harrington – technical studio master
 * Steve Loeb – technical studio master
 * Todd Gray – photography