Sirens sounded, they seemed astounded: THE ILM RAP MUSIC OF THE GODS ALL TIME 100 GREATEST ALBUMS OFFICIAL THREAD

I have to confess here that while I love De La Soul as singles artists, I've never really enjoyed their albums at all. Maybe it's cause I started becoming a rap nerd at a time when certain reverent cats were busy running De La's innovations to the ground and I heard a lot of that shit before I got around to checking out their own albums? It's not so much that I feel like I don't "get" their albums as I feel like there isn't that much for me to get that isn't already present in their standout best songs. Probably serves me right for not finally tracking down their albums until a few years after I was most into that type of rap. But I played 3 Feet High and Rising the other day after not listening to it for years and it left me just as cold as before except for the few songs I already knew I loved.

see i've barely ever even experienced their music as singles outside of "Me Myself & I" (and to a lesser degree "Buddy" and "Oooh") so they're totally an albums act to me

entirely possible this is just a "had to be there" thing but the first time I heard that album when I was 14 (or 15?) it just seemed like it was from another planet. had never heard anything even remotely like it before, much less wrapped up in such a long, in-jokey concept album format

2nd and 3rd de la are 100% classic

dunno what you have against the first, but yeah

xxp Yeah, I first really heard them (other than "Me, Myself, and I") in the early 2000s, by which time my friends had already foisted Jurassic 5 et al on me. And then never actually copped any of their albums except for a greatest hits comp I had til around 2005 or so.

in retrospect it is pretty weird/funny that they would get all butthurt about being called hippies after putting our videos showing them in paisley shirts tossing daisies around

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none of which are on youtube apparently...?

the 2nd and 3rd one seem more like bona fide rap albums to me - like, they slot more comfortably into the larger fabric of hip hop culture and the time period. 3 Feet High is more like an epic comedy album or something

I saw them with the Black Eyed Peas as an opening act like right at the absolute last moment that would have ever happened haha. BEP even performed "Where Is the Love" iirc.

pro tip: if u do not want ppl to call u hippies, prob best to make sure yr debut album sleeve does not look like this:

http://newyork.timeout.com/sites/default/files/images/blogs/thevolume/2009/04/383853a09da0795a7c3d4110l-300x300.jpg

in retrospect it is pretty weird/funny that they would get all butthurt about being called hippies after putting our videos showing them in paisley shirts tossing daisies around

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― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 10, 2011 5:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

they were the Tyler of their era, finding a way to get mad at a mountain of good press

pro tip: if u do not want ppl to call u hippies, prob best to make sure yr debut album sleeve does not look like this

I know rite? there's a peace sign RIGHT IN THE BAND LOGO

When I started watching Yo MTV Raps when I was 14 in early 1989 - the video for Me, Myself and I was so weird and different and goofy and I loved the "Not Just Knee Deep" sample despite having no idea who Funkadelic was. I bought the tape from Columbia House and my friend always made fun of me for liking it but that and the next two are all-time forever classics for me.

Buhloone Mind State is a good rec for the Rev to try and crack De La as an albums act