The Twin Cities hereby cast all their votes for "classic."
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'd swear there's a thread around here about mature hip-hop that I might have even started but I can't find it.
― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
notions, soothed the mood
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the first album kicks the 2nd's ass 8 ways to tuesday
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"'De La Soul is Dead' is a better album than '3 Feet High...'" is the worst CHALLENGING OPINION in music criti
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
three feet high and rising was the first hip-hop album i ever bought. buhloone mind state was the second. it would be cool to say bionix was the last one. but it wasn't. it was good, though. the slick rick one. 'held down.' 'bionix.' those other ones.
hip-hop people reviewing bionix all said it sucked. indie rock type people reviewing it said it was another classic from de la soul. those are the only people who reviewed it.
-- DK, Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:46 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
o.O
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a thing for making paper since papier-mache
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
dude you were the one that told me 3 Ft High was dylan's first rap album
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard De La Soul Is Dead in its entirety before I heard Three Feet High and Rising in its entirety, which is part of the reason why I hold this allegedly controversial CHALLENGING OPINION.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
its totally not a challenging opinion wtf people - but buhloone mind state is better than both of them anyway
i say this as someone who has listed to those three albums more than anyone on this board im sure
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
production on Buhloone is less unique than on 1st 2. They're all great. 2nd>>>1st>>>3rd.
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
buhloone mind state remains my pick too
― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
3>2>1
but theyre all great obv
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
1st > 3rd > 2nd
this is what I assume of anyone who holds same
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
lol no i had 3 feet around when it cam out it kinda marked my devolution from someone who just listened to the radio and had a few albums to a music obsessive. i remember seeing the video for me myself and i on bet at a friends house and being all wtf is this must have! then dead was the last tape i had before i got a cd player. i taped ringringring off the radio before the album came out and was all wtf at the new sound but it grew on me fast. then when buhloon came out it was just <3<3<3
3 feet is nice but they got sooo much better at everything
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I pretty much agree with this.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
so do I. 1st and 2nd are both more "fun" (having guru guest on a track will do that, though har har). 3rd I guess a lil TOO good ie refined.
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
(tho i guess having biz guest cancels out guru)
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
omglol i am watching de la videos on youtube omg!
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static1.videosift.com/thumbs/d/el/De_La_Soul_Me_Myself_And_I.jpg
this hair whaaaa!
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
2>4>1=3
― jaxon, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
For a long time I wrote off the AOI Bionix lps, but on repeat listen I think they are tight. I saw them perform at DEMF in 01 and they were great.
― U-Haul, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
they got better at smooth jazz soul jams. but the 1st album is alive in a way those that follow are not and it's got the best wordplay by far. also, i like hippies and the color yellow.
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Buhloone Mind State is better than the first two. It's like desert island material.
― Euler, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
arsenio dissed us but the crowed kept clapping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-p_yMTFDY
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Wrote something a couple of years ago on Buhloone, although they never even came close to recording boilerplate material.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
it's got the best wordplay by far
gabz its fine if you like that one best but this is just demonstrably false - buhloon is 100% double entendres metaphors and allusions
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i like the kiddie metaphors more than the adult metaphors, but there's a fair amount of adult stuff on the 1st one too
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
as a prince paul fan i'm partial to the first three with BMS being tops
― carne asada, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
'i am i be' for all time buhloone rules
― deej, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i love stakes is high
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
When I listen to "I Am I Be" I get chills; like top ten song ever.
― Euler, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
otm
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
discovering that third de la album was when they really clicked for me, i think, and i started to actually have ideas about their music for the first time that really felt like my own rather than sort of blindly buying into one narrative or another, which i did when i heard the first two records ... i liked them but not enough to think about them. buhloone was kind of like a breakthrough (breakathrough?) where i realized De La were great and worth giving a shit about on a personal, rewind-this-record-over-and-over level rather than just paying my dues as a rap nerd by touching all the canon bases or whatever
i dont know if i think its the 'best' any more but its definitely the one de la record i most fondly associate w/ being a teenager and really getting rap, climbing up a neighbor's fire escape to watch the sun set on a rooftop w/ it playing in the headphones. good times
― deej, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
buhloone is kinda impersonal to me.... i gotta admit i love de la is dead just for having so many songs that are the shit and this big smart ass unified concept and i love stakes is high cuz it was the first de la album i actually got when it dropped but all of em are the shit including aoi ones and grind date
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
one joint i think is underrated for real is "held down" with cee-lo http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-htszlfoDI
god, stakes is high is so fucking good, you people are clueless
― cutty, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
just curious, how do you mean 'impersonal' - like to you personally, or the overall sound of the record?? to me tracks like 'i am i be' are exactly the opposite of that
― deej, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
stakes is the shit, its the first one that fits in the era of rap i came up on instead of weirdo early 90s daisy age skit rap... set the style for the whole late 90s rawkus underground shit too
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess i mean impersonal that like dudes seem a lot less passionate on it compared to the other joints like is dead or stakes, and i dig angry de la more than like self satisfied chillin de la - buhloone just gets a lil too workmanlike without having the smarter grown folks shit you get from the aoi cds.... its still dope dont get me wrong but i think like beats rhymes & life does the same style about 10000x better
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno i feel like im talking outta my ass cuz i dont play that as much as the other cds so let me play it out & get back to yall with opinions4u
stakes is the shit, its the first one that fits in the era of rap i came up on instead of weirdo early 90s daisy age skit rap
duh. but i confess i don't own it. is most of the stuff better than 'all good'?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
beats rhymes & life does the same style about 10000x better damn! that's a lot of times better
― carne asada, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
stakes is high is great but it's the 1st one of theirs that had skippable tracks from the getgo.
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
aren't SiH and BR&L like the albums where they tried to sound like everyone else and therefore less deserving of any marginal distinction even if the flow was upped a notch?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
all good was from mosaic thump, dum dum
u never heard 'stakes is high' or 'tha bizness' or 'itzsoweezee'???
xp damn thats a CHALLENGING OPINION gabb
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
stakes is high completely defined my summer when it came out. beats rhymes & life is its companion piece yes, but i will not rate them against each other.
― cutty, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
'wait doesnt this sound like other rap???' = the mating call of dudes who dont actually like rap
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i've heard stakes is high and tha bizness. is the rest better than those?
if liking someone other than de la is yr criterion of actually liking rap, then maybe you'd understand that someone who actually likes rap might prefer something other than those albums
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, sorry. Meant to post:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8mfaAodcXU
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2023 19:31 (nine months ago) link
On tour opening for Nas/Wu, with Kweli on second mic. Listened to one set on youtube and iirc they did three De La songs, two Kweli, the Pos verse of Rock.Co.Kane twice, and then Pharoahe Monch came out and did Simon Says, fin.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:24 (six months ago) link
Who is the "we" - is Mase involved? It was just Pos (plus Dres, Yaasin Bey and Prince Paul) when they played London in spring.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 20:09 (six months ago) link
Sorry, I mean who is the "they"?
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 20:15 (six months ago) link
Mase, Pos and Kweli.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 20:38 (six months ago) link
30th anniversary edition of buhloone has hit spotify. it's added some bonus tracks from the clear lake audiotorium ep and the infamous "can't beat my mindstate" outtake.
phife, dave, and biz trading verses on "sh.fe.mcs" ———————————— the biggest sigh. never ending respect.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Sunday, 3 December 2023 21:50 (five months ago) link
always loved this song it's mentioned once in this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQmZBB-Sns
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 1 March 2024 21:49 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJrUceBbVxY
― birdistheword, Friday, 8 March 2024 09:00 (one month ago) link
That is awesome!
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, 8 March 2024 10:26 (one month ago) link
Wait this is SO good. God i love this album so much. Drove 3 hours to see them in 1996. Was so worth it.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 8 March 2024 10:34 (one month ago) link
Got a bit choked when Pos did the Plug Two verse
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, 8 March 2024 10:35 (one month ago) link
Yes :(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 8 March 2024 10:37 (one month ago) link
Glad Paul is with them. He was great at the Royal Albert Hall show last year. They should tour with Q-Tip as some DAISY Age survivors posse. That would be AWESOME.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, 8 March 2024 10:43 (one month ago) link
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, March 8, 2024 4:35 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yea wasn't expecting it but that got me too
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link
Impressed by the generous Donald Fagen shoutout after Steely Dan sued them into oblivion
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:38 (one month ago) link
just confirms what i always suspected about De La Soul: they are very nice dudes
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2024 14:39 (one month ago) link
absolutely
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:40 (one month ago) link
Steely Dan did not sue De La Soul
― Pierre Delecto, Friday, 8 March 2024 14:46 (one month ago) link
That was the Turtles.
― Chris L, Friday, 8 March 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
can anyone think of any tunes similar to "Eye Know"? its got such an amazing vibe to it
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
steely dan sued lord tariq and peter gunz
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 March 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link
Mad Lads - "Make This Young Lady Mine"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irbUNcNRl5I
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 8 March 2024 16:04 (one month ago) link
this is legitimately one of the best late night performances i've ever seen!
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 March 2024 16:09 (one month ago) link
― enochroot, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
All of their vinyl records are on sale at TTL:https://www.turntablelab.com/search?sort=price-descending&q=de%20la%20soul&_=pf&pf_v_artist_manufacturer=De%20La%20Soul&pf_st_stock_status=true&goal=0_8b218d7604-91d5b9e00f-31345977&mc_cid=91d5b9e00f&mc_eid=365684acc9
― Indexed, Friday, 8 March 2024 20:03 (one month ago) link