De La Soul - Classic or Dud?

http://fatlacemagazine.rawkus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dela-2.jpg

its rude to point

is that Ann Coulter?

Exclusive: De La Soul's 2009 project
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/exclusive-de-la-souls-2009-project

"We are working on a revision of "3 Feet High and Rising," celebrating 20 years of that."

It's been a pretty good decade for these guys!

The Art Official Inteligence albums are good - Mosaic Thump is the better one (nice trick making the skits a showcase for dope freestyles), but Bionix at least has two great tracks, sampling Gainsbourg and Carl Tjader. The Grind Date is way more quality, tho - it's about as fun and exciting as a conscious rap release could get this decade. A lot of really cool beats, great guest spots (Ghostface, Flava Flav)...them doing "Much More" on Dave Chapelle is like one of my all-time fave popcult moments. Even the cover booklet is great (it has this calendar-style gimmick.) They've become pretty good producers, too, and this Supa Dave West guy they've got doing most of the beats on recent albums is a talent.

It's funny, I'm a big fan but I hardly ever listen to what they're rhyming about tbh.

I've only heard 3 and 2, but 3 > 2, so I'm tempted to try 4 next rather than 1.

The Grind Date is one of my favorite albums o fthe decade.

funny ass thread

Baby Phat ftw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTq0BMC_GZI

just picking and choosing twenty or thirty good de la tracks is enough to remind you these guys are all time forever

New toonz!

http://wearedelasoul.tumblr.com/post/11340900324/de-la-new-work-snippet-enjoy-mr-big-mouth

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalright!

The first two albums:

"3 feet high" had lots of 'darker' moments, but everyone noticed the 'daisy' stuff.

"DLS is Dead" had lots of light/daisy moments as well, but people were expecting those but got 'surprised' by the darker stuff this time.

They are both great albums.

has this been posted anywhere? http://soundcloud.com/firstserve/de-la-souls-plug-1-plug-2

There's a video for another song too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6dbdOjWV8&feature=player_embedded

this looks more promising than I expected. the *look* of that clip is great

Stakes is so otm this morning

i will test and find out

de la not on spotify!

It's just "Me Myself and I"

(And "The Grind Date")

are any Tommy Boy artists on Spotify...?

Really like this new track (and Maseo's grey goatee)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/de-la-soul-channel-wu-tang-clan-on-get-away-song-premiere-20130417

great

dope

too short is the true salt & pepper don of rap tho (shouts to ish butler too)

I'll rep for The Grind Date again. And again.

otm

Grind Date is great because it suggests a world where De La Soul just kept recording, putting out a damn respectable album every two or three years. It's kind of a broken promise is that respect. Really good album, not quite a classic though (I actually prefer Bionix)

i welcomed them

Both the AOI releases are pretty great

absolutely. i would put out the argument that de la has a better hit/miss ratio than any other hip hop artists

hmmmmmmm

correct me!

Quik for me obv
De La is up there though

Not crazy about the first AOI album but it's been years. Thanks for the dinner music suggestion!

5 album minimum, i think they go toe to toe with pretty much anyone
xp okay yeah, quik but i dunno if i'd put him over them so much as at the same level

Scarface, Ghostface

love them both, would not give them the same hit/miss ratio as de la

I still listen to the grind date all the time

DE LA releasing ENTIRE CATALOG FOR FREE for 25 hours

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/de-la-soul-to-make-entire-catalog-available-for-free-20140213

Bump so people see it. Huge gift for folks.

nice. the digital unavailability of their stuff has been a long-term bummer

woah!!!!!!

This is awesome as can be. Even so, I'd love to have it on Spotify for usability; pretty sure I have everything on MP3 already but hopefully some outtake stuff to grab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZorwKAwqPnE
first listen, pretty good

will be furious if "complete catalogue" doesn't mean "complete catalogue" and it's just some studio albums

Like forks said I have everything as well but would be cool with random stuff. Kinda doubt it tho and just think it will be studio lp's. This isn't really for me tho I'm more excited to spread the word and just think its cool for them to do this.

This is basically the opportunity for me to go back and plug holes in my collection since there are a couple of albums I never had my own copies of (3 Feet and Buhloone in particular)