De La Soul - Classic or Dud?

Somebody snapped up the "Be on a skit" level pretty sharpish.

"These guys deserve my money for giving away their catalog the other year alone."

cant believe they did that TBH.

Stakes Is High/Art Official: MOS are underrated albums imo

"These guys deserve my money for giving away their catalog the other year alone."

cant believe they did that TBH.

can't believe they just uploaded mp3s they got from a Russian pirate site with missing ID3 metadata TBH

Aside from Grind Date, which I guess they can still profit off.

is the grind date really underrated? this thread took me to it, as its the only album of theirs on spotify. it's really great and largely passed me by.

The Grind Date is underrated in the sense that De La had passed out of the mainstream by the time it was released; to my knowledge, the fans who still actively follow the group love it to pieces

the grind date is really underrated

i dont remember it except thinking that it was a good album for that point in their careers. really solid stuff, better beats than some of their stuff prior to that, etc. i liked the impossible mission mix cd thing they put out. the album they did a few years back under an alias, without maseo too, though i dont remember the name.

cot dam, this thing is up to $350k! this may be the best funded De La album ever.

how many samples will that pay for

all of them! watch the funder video!

http://www.wearedelasoul.com/products/53993-god-it-feat-nas

ha I almost forgot to back the album (not that they need it, what with pulling in 4x their goal, but I need that bonus track and a t-shirt)

I'm waiting to the last week.

xpost Feel like The Grind Date was fairly acclaimed at the time, seen as a return to form after the AOI records. It was #31 on the pitchfork EOY list. It also came out right before the sea change in rap coverage in rock/indie/mainstream critical outlets, so that probably influences reputation/legacy.

Like in 2004 the top rap albums on Pitchfork's EOY were The Streets, Madvillain, Ghostface, Dizzee Rascal, Kanye, and De La Soul. And in 2005 they were Kanye, Cam'ron, Clipse, Beanie Siegel, The Game, Young Jeezy.

raised about $601k, yikes

That is great.

As our September delivery date has long come and gone, we'd like to address the delay, the plan moving forward and the expected release date of our album.
Releasing a record independently has been a real undertaking. In addition to artistic satisfaction, the administrative and executive end had to feel right as well. Side artist clearances and appropriating the best distribution for this project has been just as important. With negotiations complete, we are now working on the plan for our awaited release. Thank you all for your patience.
In late December we'll hit you with a treat and release a song entitled "Train Wreck" followed by our first single "Pain" feat. Snoop Dogg, slated for February/March. Album release date is April 29th.
We'll be sure to keep you posted on our progress.
Thanks folks.
Anonymously,
Us.

Eh, it's been a decade; what's another five or six months.

i guess. i just mean to say that nothing crowdfunded comes out on time ever and it would be smarter to buy a finished product if that is your end goal and/or send a check directly.

nothing crowdfunded comes out on time ever

a) this is obviously wildly untrue

b) one would have expected that an entire De La Soul album would run into delays, especially when the funding was so successful that it suggested getting decent distribution would be worthwhile, not just shipping to backers.

a) it's proven by science

b) one would have expected that an album intended to release in 2015 might release in 2015 when that was the stated intention of the artist

can't believe an artist's stated intention for their album release has changed plans for the first time ever!

(they ought to have informed folks ahead of September, definitely.)

(first thing I ever crowdfunded was a lavish hardcover comic that was meant to be exclusive to Kickstarter, but ended up being solicited through Diamond and subsequently available in comic shops something like 6-8 months before mine shipped. I still haven't finished reading it 5 years later bcz of disillusionment. but I've no beef on anything else I've kickstarted or pozibled or w/e)

yeah nothing wrong with delaying a release date if they wanna make things better but not keeping the people who already paid money for it informed is kinda lame

sic, i assume you mean the little nemo book?

I just want my t-shirt

didn't know there was any issue with the Little Nemo book! (and it only came out last year) (mine was the Michael Zulli one which turns out to only be four years ago, not five)

I was gonna guess James Owen, it sounds like something he would do (though sic has too fine taste to fund a James Owen comic)

i saw the zulli was out on the fanta blog but didn't even know it had started as a crowdfund piece!

all facetiousness aside, approaching crowdfunding as a consumer sport is a bad idea; the only reason to go that way is if you want to unconditionally support the artist. to that extent, i'm happy getting whatever de la makes whenever they make it but (from the buyer's end) there's something to be said to having to obey the constraints of a demanding market. It's not like losing the fetters improved, say, prince's output

three new free tracks to say sorry for delay on the kickstarter alb
http://www.audiomack.com/album/2dbz/for-your-pain-suffering

more like two new songs, a skit and an experiment

Yeah these new songs suck. Really hoping they aren't at all indicative of the album.

I just found these...

Yeah these new songs suck.

...and was coming here to say the exact opposite.

the features for the album include Jill Scott, Snoop Dogg, Roc Marciano, Estelle, Pete Rock, David Byrne, Usher, 2 Chainz... also Little Dragon and Damon Albarn but I suppose that was already presumed

oddly, it's "PAIN feat. Snoop Dogg" and "SNOOPIES feat. David Byrne"
did they maybe both show up on the wrong day?

The title "For Your Pain & Suffering" seems pretty sarcastic after listening to the music, though I mostly enjoyed it. Wasn't their new album supposed to be called "You're Welcome" at one point?

oh snap this new one w snoop is awesome and v encouraging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vDVDo9w20w

i wanna know who produced this, dave? sounds really good.

Song sounds fine, but I hope the album is more challenging than this. I get that they're older now but it's like they've lost all interest in confrontation and provocation

huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umdFFR9XVpE&feature=youtu.be

Good read.

thx.

whats that link xp?

throw up the youtube short link

it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umdFFR9XVpE

youtube's are fucking up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umdFFR9XVpE

arrrrrggghhhhhhfzfvs:dbvbsvkn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umdFFR9XVpE

if this doesn't work, i quit
youtube dot com/watch?v=umdFFR9XVpE

all four work for me! idk what everybody's problem w youtube embeds is lately

it's just black bars