big lol @ "nah this shit is kinda mid" upon hearing the stakes is high beat tho
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
would've loved a skit called "Tip the Beat Jacker."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
(crocker)
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
yo when i first 3 feet high and rising i was
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
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
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
"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.
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
"when i'm gone make sure my headstone reads: he did it for us."
goat hiphop group:de la vs outkastFITE
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
yeah SIH is a very strong closing album
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
MIght be awhile before I listen to much else lol― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, March 3, 2023 8:09 AM
― 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 5is dead 5buhloone 5stakes 5mosaic 4.5bionix 4.5
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
Is the Buhloone Mindstate pre-order link unavailable to anyone else? I’m able to add Stake to my cart, but not that
― beamish13, Friday, 3 March 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
I can now confirm that 3 Feet High and Rising is still good
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
also, I had it on CD way back when, and I'm not hearing anything unexpected
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
"you know how i know you ain't phife? you woulda said you owned the knicks or somethin."
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kJQu9xt.png
smh all my homies hate all music dot com
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
wow Bionix better than Buhloone
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
big month for art official intelligence!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
god the beat for Ooodles of O's rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
It seemed to be more in the marketing: "We don't want people to call us hippies"
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
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
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
dilla feature on bionix raises the score from 3.5 to 4.5
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-IEONSbaw
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
slamming.
where's the box?
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
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.
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
Do they really say that word in anywhere that isn't a skit?
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
Freddie Foxx does at the end of the first AOI album but I can't think of where else?
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
They're not ATCQ after all
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
bumpy knuckles says whatever he wants
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
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.)
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
(kind of the second album's "delacratic" or "dave has a problem... seriously")
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
"pass the plugs" also very god tier and maybe the best thing they ever did.
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
(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.)
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
I always found "who do you worship" confusing too lol
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
I guess the asshole guy is who many people want to be?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Yeah I got that I just never understood the purpose of the noisy bits, what they represented
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
They sound like a response to a dare to make a beat out of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
Only just learned they supposedly sampled Anyway by Genesis... I can't hear it...
― PaulTMA, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
just marathon`d everything in my own order; started with buhloone and ended with de la soul is dead and, welp, greatest fucking group of all time.
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
(also re:"who do u worship?" i always took that to be a portrayal of / fourth wall break look into what was going on in hemorrhoid's life when he wasn't around to bully jeff and his friends. maybe i'm taking the "story" of the album too far though. is this the same jeff from "brain washed follower" and "the mack daddy on the left"?)
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
epilogue:
this will never not make me laugh:
woman 1: you know who that was?man: nope.woman 1: the guy from de la soul. pos. posdnuous.man: who!?woman 1: you heard of de la soul, right?man: right.woman 2: (in background) YOU KNOW...(unintelligible)woman 1: well he was the one from de la soul.man: the one wit the real nappy hair?woman 1: the one with the... the dark skinned one.man: wit the glasses??woman 1: yeeeah!woman 2: EW THE UGLY ONE!
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Friday, 3 March 2023 22:28 (one year ago) link
Wrong Tom’s deep dive into The Magic Number is well worth a read:
Ok children…De La day is finally upon us, and as if I’d let this moment pass without doing a thread, so strap in as we dissect The Magic Number pic.twitter.com/L9GvVPer3I— wrongtom (@TheWrongtom) March 3, 2023
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 4 March 2023 08:55 (one year ago) link
haven't listened to bms for at least 15 years until today but gee what a towering achievement and also kinda surprised at how well my not v good memory still recalled all the lyrics and asides
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
waiting for the piano to kick in on i be blowin made me kinda giddy with joy tbh
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1139036-Jeff-32
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 06:09 (one year ago) link
de la soul is for the children.
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 06:12 (one year ago) link
i'm sorry the whole jeff thing has me in stitches right now
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 06:13 (one year ago) link
greatest discovery of the weekend: the version of Stakes is High I've had on my computer for YEARS and listen to often...was somehow missing the last track, Sunshine!
there was a big enough gap from owning the CD as a teen and downloading it after college that that track was scrubbed from memory, never knew i was even missing it. what a gem!
― anza808, Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link