All De La Soul Albums Now on Streaming!

[tuckgod]

I've listened to all 3 albums and haven't noticed anything, different musically. They did a great job. Also the remastering is incredible, Stakes Is High (the song) sounds dope in a way I've never heard before, shyt is so clear.

All 6 albums sound wonderful

 

[tuckgod]

So is this chick on Buhloone Mindstate songs like an unofficial member of De La?

Pos cousin

 

[tuckgod]

The thing about De La that made them so ahead of the time is the fact that every album compliments a era of hip hop and life in general.

• 3 Feet and Rising-Raising the feeling of peace and harmony within hip hop (Native tongue movement, dancing, etc...just the essentials of hip hop)
• De La Soul is Dead-Death of the peace and onto trying to find self in a gangsta rap era
• Buhloone Mindstate- Found the lane with friends to accept that times are a changing
• Stats is High- "Are people really going to accept me for me, I miss the days when it all made sense"
• Art Official Intelligence- Time to focus on the future...you never know what could happen...just keep doing you
• AOI Bionix- Lost in limbo with no SOS in sight because the headquarters are not even listening...
• The Grind Date-Times are bad, but the grind continues
• And the Anonymous Nobody-Here I am but do people see where I'm at or even care what I have been through...

It's like a downward spiral of greater time, lost time, self acceptance, feeling lost, and finding self to accept you can't change the past, but make way for the future...


God bless these kings

shyt, they was really at the forefront of all those movements.

It’s hard to overstate the impact they had on that decade and everything that came after.

They really are our Beatles.

 

[NYK Loyalist]

Changed my mind. Buhloon Mindstate is their best album.



For the OG’s is there a reason why Buhloon Mindstate didn’t fair as well as their past albums? I read an interview where the group said BM didn’t sell well and thats why they called the 4th album Stakes Is High because Lyor Cohen told them of it didn’t sell they might be done

I think it was a few things. It was probably too mature of an album for the time. It came out around the same time as hard albums like 36 Chambers and Doggystyle but I think the biggest thing was that the singles didn’t make noise. Breakadawn and Ego Trippin are great songs but they didn’t take off and back then if you didn’t have a song that connected on the radio it was hard to sell records even if you had success in the past, especially on a small label like Tommy Boy.

I love De La and they have always been one of my favorite groups but when it came out I definitely took to 36 Chambers, Doggystyle and Midnight Marauders much more and while I loved a bunch of the songs on the album it was a disappointment after how great De La Soul is Dead was but now I hold it on the same level as those albums.

It seems like that album more than any other really grew on people as they got older.

 

[tuckgod]

Changed my mind. Buhloon Mindstate is their best album.



For the OG’s is there a reason why Buhloon Mindstate didn’t fair as well as their past albums? I read an interview where the group said BM didn’t sell well and thats why they called the 4th album Stakes Is High because Lyor Cohen told them of it didn’t sell they might be done

First album sold well because of Me, Myself, and I, second album sold well because of the controversy surrounding them killing the gimmick, third album showed who was there for the music.

They catered heavily to that core once they singled them out and that’s why they’re adored to this day.

 

[Harry Sax]

Ain’t gon lie this shyt is wack…I can’t get jiggy wit this shyt

 

[mson]

Ain’t gon lie this shyt is wack…I can’t get jiggy wit this shyt

What in particular?

 

[Harry Sax]

What in particular?

All of it…I skipped thru each album, let some play in the background…shyt just ain’t for me

I can def see how they were big in the late 80s early 90s

 

[up in here]

Bulhoone Mindstate was my first De La album so it always held a high place for me. I don’t even know how to rank their albums though, on any day a different album could be my favorite, I don’t think they have a bad album.

 

[valet]

Def like Stakes Is High. But I could tell it was mostly produced by the same person. Ironically it made me think of "Beats, Rhymes". Some of the same criticism in the change in style. Not sure if it recieved the same criticism since its so highly regarded.

 

[darealvelle]

Im listening to all their album right now in chronological order. Im on the "Stakes is high" album at the moment.

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Been playing the hell out of Stakes is High

 

[mson]

All of it…I skipped thru each album, let some play in the background…shyt just ain’t for me

I can def see how they were big in the late 80s early 90s

Somethings ain't for everyone

 

[T.he I.nformant]

I’ve been in musical bliss

I ain’t really pay De La that much attention aside from the singles

Better late than never

Those first four are crazy

Amazing bodies of work

Some classical material in there

 

[areohbee824]

After running through everything Stakes Is High is their best album and a true classic. They ripped that shyt.


Crazy this came out the same day as It Was Written

So much dropped that summer, what a time and year. Got those both first week of release. My fav alternates between Stakes Is High, Buhloone Mindstate and De La Soul Is Dead