All De La Soul Albums Now on Streaming!

[areohbee824]

AOI: Bionix and The Grind Date most underrated to me. One of the best catalogs out there

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Stakes is High is my go to album from them followed by The Grind Date. Glad to see them on streaming platforms now although being member of #DownloadGang I already had them in CD quality FLAC for many years

 

[Easy-E]

yeah but this gets them some money so any time I'm on the phone and I want to hear De La I'll go to Spotify

They gave their album away like 10 years ago and that's why I have 'em all

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[hex]

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

Album was just too weird for the direction hip-hop was going in 1993. I personally always loved it.

By the time they recorded "Stakes Is High" they had some bitterness (which is why they're going at everyone on that album) because like you said, they were more or less told they had one more chance.

I remember reading an interview when "Stakes Is High" was being recorded and Pos actually had to talk to a psychiatrist, the failure of "Buhloone" and the stress of doing a follow up was almost too much to bear.

That didn't exactly inspire confidence in me, that the project would be good. They were under tremendous pressure to not fail.

Fast forward, I was killing time at the mall in 1996, picked up a Source mag, thumbed through it, came to the Hip-Hop Quotable section. It was for "Stakes Is High". This was like a month before the single dropped. Read the lyrics and it fukking blew my mind that Pos actually called himself getting Hip-Hop Quotable.

One of the craziest memories I have, music-wise, growing up. It was like watching an elaborate magic trick or something. Let alone Dave's lyrics. Regardless of how anyone felt about De La at that point, I knew they weren't going anywhere.

Fred.

 

[Frump]

Was listening to A2HH pod and they made a good point about the first 4 De La albums

De la is dead and Bulhoone were their 2 most artistic albums but 3 feet and stakes is high were their most accessible easy listening albums

It depends on your taste in terms of your favorites obviously

If you’re into what bumps in the whip while you’re driving then you’re probably gonna lean more to 3 feet and Stakes is high

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Never listened to De La for the obvious reasons ,halfway through 3 feet high and rising .. and wow

And nikkas saying they have two albums better than this ??

 

[Funcrusher]

The mp3 I had for 3 Feet was always so low in volume, no matter how much I'd turn it up. What a huge difference now that it's on streaming, very different experience.

 

[hex]

Never listened to De La for the obvious reasons ,halfway through 3 feet high and rising .. and wow

And nikkas saying they have two albums better than this ??

Depends on what you're into. Each one of their albums sounds completely different so your preferences may vary.

Fred.

 

[dubsmith_nz]

Feels great to be able to just put their whole catalogue on shuffle. I haven't listened to their music since I upgraded my car. So many classics

"Stakes Is High" is the one for me. I could just leaving that rocking all day long.

 

[Sire366]

who else would say " I play the Xbox instead of f*cking with dice" in 2003.

De La is so dope, but what i think as much as anything is the brotherhood that these three guys stayed together for 34 years... No group did that, and these guys did that, while making the dopest music.. They are "hip hop" to me

"3 Feet high and rising is a revelation of what was possible in hip hop (samples)"

Stakes is high is the apex

 

[Da Rhythm Rebel]

There should be a trigger warning ahead of "Cool Breeze on the Rocks" off 3 Feet High & Rising for those who remember the original version..

 

[hitmonlee]

my favorite

 

[Piff Perkins]

We've really lost something in rap in terms of albums being bodies of work that differed from each other. Each De La album has themes or vibes that are shared but sonically each sounds different. Each Kanye album sounds different. More recently, each Danny Brown and Kendrick album sounds different, and there are others too but overall most shyt is just trends or following the same blueprint over and over. We've lost the idea of "eras." IE an artist was on this vibe and then a few later discovered something else.

 

[areohbee824]

Not too many catalogs out there got a better 1st 4 album run than De La