In Full Gear is the second studio album by American hip hop band Stetsasonic, released in 1988 by Tommy Boy Records.
It also incorporates beat-boxing, sampling technology, and live band performance.
[3] "Freedom or Death" and "Talkin' All That Jazz" discuss credos of revolution and sampling, respectively.
He was more enthusiastic about "Freedom or Death" and "Talking All That Jazz", and felt that In Full Gear succeeds on "a camaraderie that reaches deeper than the usual homeboy bonding".
[4] In his own list for the Pazz & Jop critics poll, Christgau named "Talkin' All That Jazz" the seventeenth best single of 1988.