De La Soul - Classic or Dud?

no b-sides. no remixes. no extras.

AND YET.

I HATE THEM AND I'MMA GIT EM IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO

anyway. hope you have a pleasant day.☺

"take a dive like greg louganis wit his. . ."

i would've been okay with common getting scrubbed from this.

A Prince Among Thieves is a masterpi starting with 3 Feet I'm just planning on listening and chilling not scrutinizing, but so far this sounds like the De La I remember

ooop part of an old post on there

pleased to know that they kept "the lick" in "patti dooke"

god "My Brother's a Basehead" sounds great, what a fucking jam

anybody having an experience where it's like "this is off, shit indispensable to my enjoyment of this music is missing and I can't get past it"? I hadn't listened to 3 feet since like 93 and i'm not having that problem…

how did i forget how fucking life-changing "trying people" was/is?!!?! i know "held down" gets the props for being the `P O I G N A N T` song (and it is, and it's extremely good at that) but "trying people" is easily in that same tier. dave stopped giving a fuck around... idk, "stakes is high" remix?... so when he says, "i cry a lot but admit to it" i always took it as a kind of weird brag. were de la progenitors of adult contempo hiphop?

elsewhere: i forgot that dave actually fucking eviscerated biggie with his "i got questions about your life if you so ready to die" line. it went completely uncontested as well. lol.

There have been a few parts where I've been, "Did they change this, or does it just sound different from the tape cassette I listened to 30 years ago?"

ha yeah a lot of rap on streaming sounds weird to me cuz it doesn't have that old cassette compression

potholes in my lawn still the greatest

buhloone mindstate sounds amazing and not noticing any differences, though it seems like there would be fewer rights issues by that time. i'm glad long island wildin' is on there

I like this, about the Dilla beat for Stakes is High:

Tip is playing this new beat for Pos from Dilla and based on the history that those two have, anytime Pos gave a head nod to some shit, Q-Tip ended up keeping the beat and try to make something out of it, so he tried to use reverse psychology on this particular one. “Stakes is High” came up on the beat, Pos kind of held back. He was like, “What do you think of this beat?” “Stakes Is High” beat playing and Pos was like, “It’s all right. It’s OK” but then secretly goes off in the corner and calls Dave was like, Yo! This is the fucking beat. This is it right here. I’ve got to figure out how to get it but this is it. Then went from that point on. Pos reaching out to Dilla separately.

q-tip an infamous beat jacker; also bogarded samples from pete rock iirc.

big lol @ "nah this shit is kinda mid" upon hearing the stakes is high beat tho

would've loved a skit called "Tip the Beat Jacker."

(crocker)

yo when i first 3 feet high and rising i was

It's great to hear these again. All my CDs have been in storage for so long, it's been awhile. Remasters sound great so far and I haven't noticed much differences in samples, really. MIght be awhile before I listen to much else lol

"sunshine" is god tier and my nomination for official theme song of the de la soul reissue campaign.

DE LA IS THE CREW THAT YOU MUST HEAR.

"when i'm gone make sure my headstone reads: he did it for us."

goat hiphop group:
de la vs outkast
FITE

yeah SIH is a very strong closing album

MIght be awhile before I listen to much else lol

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, March 3, 2023 8:09 AM

uhhh... ya my last.fm is about to go completely all de la all day for the next little while.

here's something funny: i considered mosaic thump a huge disappointment at the time. i am the worst kind of snob.

on tour ever since 89 so ya'll're fuckin the same hoes that used to be mine

3 feet 5
is dead 5
buhloone 5
stakes 5
mosaic 4.5
bionix 4.5

Is the Buhloone Mindstate pre-order link unavailable to anyone else? I’m able to add Stake to my cart, but not that

I can now confirm that 3 Feet High and Rising is still good

also, I had it on CD way back when, and I'm not hearing anything unexpected

"you know how i know you ain't phife? you woulda said you owned the knicks or somethin."

https://i.imgur.com/kJQu9xt.png

smh all my homies hate all music dot com

wow Bionix better than Buhloone

big month for art official intelligence!

god the beat for Ooodles of O's rules

it's funny, at the time it seemed like such a turn, but de la soul as dead doesn't sound like nearly as much of a departure from 3 feet high as it did then

It seemed to be more in the marketing: "We don't want people to call us hippies"

yeah definitely, and obviously the cover with the broken flowerpot, the ring ring video being black and white,i think that affected how i perceived it. but stuff like oodles or pease porridge etc could totally be on 3 feet.

Stakes is HIgh seemed like a big departure. DelaisDead really seems similar in vibe to 3feet in vibe. Yeah it's a little darker but it still has the silly skits and sort of jokey songs and such

dilla feature on bionix raises the score from 3.5 to 4.5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-IEONSbaw

sheesh thought all these posts were gonna be about Trugoy but I go the local store and somehow 3 Feet High and Rising is there? what the hell

slamming.

where's the box?

okay, taking a de la meme break to address this—

they say the "f word" a lot (and i don't mean fuck). i had normalized it so much back then —also they are using it mockingly in some instances— that i guess i just didn't think anything of it. to their credit(?) they left them all in there.

also "pease porridge" has several noticeable replacements in the samples. song is essentially the same but i know the og too well so i can hear the differences.

Do they really say that word in anywhere that isn't a skit?

Freddie Foxx does at the end of the first AOI album but I can't think of where else?

They're not ATCQ after all

bumpy knuckles says whatever he wants

okay, it's been 30+ years.

can someone please explain "who do u worship?" to me.

(i've always just assumed that there is no explanation because hi we're de la soul and prince paul.)

(kind of the second album's "delacratic" or "dave has a problem... seriously")

"pass the plugs" also very god tier and maybe the best thing they ever did.

(let me tell about that time i did a presentation on hiphop in junior year english class and i played "pass the plugs" as one of my example songs.)