look im all about personal taste and shit like that but if you seriously think the single 'stakes is high' is weak (as u imply in this thread) youre bad at listening to rap music
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, i have backpacked extensively throughout north america, or wish i had, at least. but i'd rather listen any day to jay-z or ghostface or nas than chali 2na or el-p or i don't even know who.
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i have no issues with those other artists, but you haven't EVEN HEARD stakes is high, man. come on.
― cutty, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
what the fuck are you even talking about? seriously, what?
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno this kind of hardcore selectivism with rap is whats always bugged me about ilm rock critic dudes... like if youre fucking with 99.999% non-hiphop and only love 11 rap LPs i guess you can afford to treat shit like stakes is high as some mediocrity thats beneath your sorry ass but that shit is classic to me
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
(crocker!)
― carne asada, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw them on Landsdowne St when they toured for Stakes Is High. That show was FANTASTIC.
It is stupid and criminal that I don't have all of their albums.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
(I've got 3 Feet..., Dead, Stakes and the first AOI disc)
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
(My brother has Buhloone and I always assumed I'd tape it off him someday)
(crocker)
― cutty, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.youtube.com/vi/kHmvkRoEowc/2.jpg (crocker)
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
LEAVE GABBNEB ALONE
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
only love 11 rap LPs i guess you can afford to treat shit like stakes is high as some mediocrity thats beneath your sorry ass but that shit is classic to me
yeah, sorry, there's a space between only loving 11 rap lp's and being a completist rap geek
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
thread taking a turn for the suck
― Euler, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i've always repped for Stakes. the people that push so hard for 3 feet are the same people that think the best hip hop group/production was Public Enemy (ie white dudes who were in college or highschool when they came out)
― jaxon, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
but yeah cutty otm i haven't even heard the thing
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Stakes is fantastic.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
skits suck, that's why later albums are better listens start to finish.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
CHALLENGING!
-- HI DERE, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:47 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i was there!
stakes is good but its got this really kind of unsatisfying stilted calculating feel - its when they started sounding like uh oh maybe we shouldve gone to college instead of fucking w/this shit
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
also no prince paul :(
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
nah for me stakes is when they actually start to feel like real people i know instead of just goofy improv comedy dudes making weird rap
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
not to diminish how dope the first 3 de la records are but for real stakes is raw
yah and that was sort of the whole idea of it - to bring it down to a human level - but a lot of their brilliance came w/being just out there - regardless of weather or not they were comfortable w/that anymore
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
one thing that sure suks abt it is common
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
btw ur completely fucking insane to think beats rhymes life should be even mentioned in the same breath as buhloon
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
dude, "Bitties in the BK Lounge"!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Why do people think just because we speak peace We can't blow no joints?"
― carne asada, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Common's verse on stakes is fine!!! Whip ANYBODY ass at NBA Live
― deej, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
com on tha bizness is tha bizness fuk u if u disagree
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
someone should go back in time to insure theres never any such thing as common
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
for everybody who isnt spitting tired-ass recieved CHALLENGING OPINIONS about com sense heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyqUlpHs7YE&feature=related
― and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
thats not a video
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
no he's a hippie and likes poetry slams and therefore isn't hard enough for internet thugs
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
he's middlebrow
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
he wears stupid hats
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
ILM: we've solved rap music.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
he raps abt his tedious ideas like hes explaining something REAL important to you
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
also, stakes is high = jay dee
― jaxon, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
-- and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 21:52 (26 minutes ago) Link
^^^
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw De La & Common perform "Tha Bizness" together a few years back. Dope.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys were 13 when Tha Bizness came out, I was 13 when Me, Myself and I came out
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no fuk u guys so there
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I never thought I'd see the day BR&L gets praised like this.
jhøshea on a pile of money about Stakes, but can't back this revisionist idea of Common as a devil because of his latter day Badu mindstate/pants.
Resurrection for fucking all time.
― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I dunno, Stakes was where I got off the De La bus. Sold it back years ago haven't heard it since, maybe I'd like it now. At the time I was very disappointed by the lack of Prince Paul. imho the best of theirs is probably is Dead or BMS for me, too bad the vinyl copy I have of is Dead is the WORST FUCKING RECORD PRESSING I HAVE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE. They songs are actually chopped short!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://fatlacemagazine.rawkus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dela-2.jpg
― and what, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
its rude to point
― deej, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
is that Ann Coulter?
― Euler, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Exclusive: De La Soul's 2009 projecthttp://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."
― djmartian, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been a pretty good decade for these guys!
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link