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| De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead Band: De La Soul Tracks: - Intro - Oodles of O's - Talkin' Bout Hey Love - Peas Porridge Hot - Skit 1 - Johnny's Dead AKA Vincent Mason [Live from the BK Lounge] - Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" - WRMS' Dedication to the Bitty - Bitties in the BK Lounge - Skit 2 - My Brother's a Basehead - Let, Let Me In - Afro Connections at a Hi 5 (In the Eyes of the Hoodlum) - Rap de Rap Show - Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa - Who Do U Worship? - Skit 3 - Kicked Out of the House - Pass the Plugs - Not Over Till the Fat Lady Plays the Demo - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) - WRMS: Cat's in Control - Skit 4 - Shwingalokate - Fanatic of the B Word - Keeping the Faith - Skit 5 The First Hip-Hop Epic At well over sixty minutes and at hundreds of tracks(not really),this album qualifies as something akin to the "White Album" of Hip-Hop.It certainly compares in stylistic sweep-tracks range from striat up old school Rap to neo-disco,to House parody,to Cheech & Chong style novelty tracks,as well as several seperate running skits,which are hilarious.The album was realesed as an effort to dispel the image of De La Soul as a shiny happy neo-hippie flower-power unit,an image largly resulting from the fact that De La didn't have packaging say-so on it's first album.Much of the album sounds downright bitter,as in the nastily sarcastic Ha Ha Hey,and in several of the skits.The album is uniformally funny and crafty,showing De La Soul to be one of the most creative and clever acts out there,as well as displaying thier underrated rhyme skills.Those weary of today's cookie-cutter Rap albums will certainly get a breath of fresh air from this classic album..Buy it! The best rap album of all time? Too many people I know give a shrug or a frown when I bring up this album, expressing some sort of misplaced disappointment that it "wasn't like their first album." Well, in a way that is true, De La Soul is Dead is nothing like Three Feet High and Rising...it's much, much better; so good, in fact, I have yet to hear any hip-hop album do any better (though some have come close). The growth between this album and the debut is startling. The production quality is tighter and smoother (this is the first album that started my realization that Prince Paul = genius), Trugoy and Posdunos' flows are more developed (I have to say, after the first album I wasn't sure these two could actually rap. They proved me very, very wrong on this one), the lyrics are more polished, thoughful and mature, the beats and Samples are some of the best I've ever heard. The whole album plays brilliantly as one amazing, tight-knit CONCEPT, whereas Three Feet was basically a collection of (admittedly fun) singles. If you're new to De La, this is the album to pick up, followed by the brilliant (but much too short) Buhloone Mindstate. And don't skip their singles - De La and Paul had such a good thing going that EVERY single from this era is a classic in and of itself. De La soul may be the most uncompromising group in hip hop. De La Soul is Dead is one of the most quirky albums you'll ever hear. While most people credit it as being the album that started the skit movement, De la's underlying message is the most critical element to come from this album. First off, the beats on this album are tight. De La has never be a group to bowl you over with their lyrical content, but their lyrics and message are more than satisfy your cravings for verbal content. On "Millie pulled a pistol on Santa" Plug's 1 and 2 tell the story of a girl who is sexually abused by her father. The beat here is phat and if you were down with the Soul in 1991, then you probably heard the vintage remix. "Hey hey Ring Ring" is the album's jewel, as De la tells the toils of being in the record business and having the phone ring off the hook. Not to be outdone is "Fanatics of the B Word" which features Dres of the Black Sheep. The beat is symphonic and the chorus will have you wondering why it took you 8 years to purchase the album. The skits on this album, working in conjunction with the tracks convey the message that what De La did on the first album will not work in the future, hence the title. The first album boasted songs of Peace and unity amongst a growing hip hop nation. There was no speaking of shooting the next man or making sexual advances at the neighbor's 15 year old daughter. It was just an album with 3 teenagers expressing their Affinity towards hip-hop. During the skits De La's album bounces around amoungst a group of kids. If the voices sound familiar one of them is Mr. Lawnge (long) of Black sheep and P A Mase (Plug 3). As the tape bounces around The kids critique the album (for the most part dissing it). At the end of the album the kids throw the tape in the Garbage where they initially found it. If you don't have this album I would say that on a scale of 1-10 on the must-have-list its an 8.5. De La was very prophetic on this album, because if you follow hip hop then you know that very rarely do you get the feeling that artists make records because they enjoy the music. They may enjoy shooting video's or the money or the women, but they don't enjoy sitting down crafting lyrical themes, content, and records. Ironically enough, even though De La is "Dead", it was this realization of the Change in hip-hop that helped De La stay De La. They never changed their formula for success and as a result they continue to thrive and remain successful. Buy De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
