De La Poll Is Dead

how the hell am I supposed to pick just one

by clicking on the circle next to 'a roller skating jam named "saturdays"' and then pressing the vote button

yeah this is pretty tough, might go with "pass the plugs," i dig the sort of resigned atmosphere it has.

voted for bitties in the bk lounge

having same difficulty as dan

have eliminated anything starting with skit

oodles of o's
pease porridge
a roller skating jam named "saturdays"
bitties in the bk lounge
millie pulled a pistol on santa
ring ring ring(ha ha hey)
shwingalokate
keepin' the faith

I could easily vote for any of these

although IIRC I am also kind of tempted to vote for "skit 2", lol

Saturdays. Then lots of other great songs. But Saturdays. Really.

ehhh im so tired of saturdays that my votes going somewhere else, prob bitties tbh

Keepin the Faith

oodles of o's
bitties in the bk lounge
millie pulled a pistol on santa
ring ring ring(ha ha hey)

argh this is difficult

If I listen to this again to remind myself of all the tracks I'll never be able to choose so I'll go with the one that's gotten the most repeat play over the years, ie Millie.

album's all of a piece, very consistent. hard to pick a high point (but yeah probably not one of the skits, altho they are essential to the album in general)

oh man but i love who do u worship

oh well i voted saturdays

Bitties.

"yo what's up?"
"hey what's up jeff?"
"yo guess what i found, i found a 'de la soul' tape in the garbage!"
"c'mon let's hear it!"
"why you gotta be like that?!"
"c'mon jeff!"
"NO!"
"what's up cocksnot? how ya doing buddy? what do you have here bud?"
"leave me alone, don't touch me!
"sucker!"
"listen you little arsenio hall gum having punk!"
"ooohhh! you let him call you arsenio!"
"No, no!"
"i want the tape!"
"It's mine!"
"Jeff!"
"Jeff's getting played!!!"
"Bodyslamm'im Jeff!"
"NOW! I've got the new De La Soul tape! hey dicksnot, buttcrust, get over here!"
"What's up baby?"
"Coolin'!"
"What's happening? I just got this De La Soul tape man, slammin'. Where's the box! The box!"
"Yo, let's get with the shilsnilhilsnobilsno!"
"I got the bidox, let's do this like Brutus!"

^that is classic

wellllllllllllllllll it was a wednesday

Every time my iPod shuffle chose "Millie..." I smiled.

"Pease Porridge", though I don't love this album as much as its predecessor or (esp.) its successor.

fwiw I cannot tell you what roughly a third-to-a-half of the lyrics on this album are about at all

a large chunk of them are basically about how, despite being hippy beatniks, they are more than ready to beat the shit out of fools and have mad indiscriminate sex with foxy ladies

"Pease Porridge", though I don't love this album as much as its predecessor or (esp.) its successor.

― Euler, Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

another challenging opinion about de la soul albums

haha challop is as challop does
(not sure what that means but it sounded good)

When I'm not brushing my teeth with Didi 7 I'm listening to the doo doo man on wrms rap de rap show.

p-p-put it on vibrate

we sellin' oodles and oodles of o's, y'all
we sellin' oodles and oodles of o's, y'all
we sellin' o's, y'all
we sellin' o's, y'all
we sellin' o's at the corner store, y'all

voted bitties

oh yeah, oodles of o's is sort of the best

really? that's one of the few songy-songs on the album that is just kinda there for me

The opening of that song instantly made me fall in love with the entire album.

Super classic song opening. This whole album is just the best.

so tough to pick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sfdTVCA_A

o_O

(crocker!)

btw

first impulse is millie or bitties, but i haven't listened to this in so long. which i should do anyway.

haha btw skit 2 is the skit I was tempted to vote for

love how the 808 kicks in on Afro connections

hey
how ya doin
sorry you can't get through
why don't you leave your name
and your number
and I'll get back to you

my college roommates and i sang that as our answering machine message.

i had that shit on my answering machine even!!

lol xp

WHO'S THE DOO DOO MAN?

I alternated between using that and a creepy movie soundbite sampled by a Doubting Thomas song that slammed religion.

xpost yea i played the boombox into the answering machine and those who could understand it thought it was A+

^^ of ring ring ring that is

its a tuff one, think for the final 4 comes down as

a roller skating jam named "saturdays"
bitties in the bk lounge
millie pulled a pistol on santa
ring ring ring(ha ha hey)

most likely millie or saturdays, but dammn as much as i love millie this took me aback "Every time my iPod shuffle chose "Millie..." I smiled."
well i love the song but don't know if smiles are what come to my face when i hear it start

"no, no."
"yo but, but yo biddies was kinda cool, it's kinda fly."
"biddies? uh maybe if you was to flip it on '45' so i could dance to it, it would be slammin. it's wack! wack!"
"i give that one props gee!"
"why y'all dissin it? i kinda like it man."
KA POW
"yo gee, stop hitting him man!"
"on to the next one on to the next one!"
"he keeps hitting me man."

Everything about this poll makes me so, so happy. This is one of the few albums from the Native Tongues/jazz-rap/"happy rap" era of hip-hop that I feel I haven't outgrown. It's so thematically rich—and so much fun—that I find new surprises every time I hear it. Plus there's so many good-to-great songs hidden in the album's final third that it's hard to wear the album out.

I gotta go with "Pass the Plugs" though. That's the one that best captures the disillusionment that binds the album.

pease porridge

love the way MF Doom flips the Pease Porridge beat on the third verse of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5XiXOXQdyA

2:00 in

"let, let me in" because, coincidentally, I have been singing it for the past two or three days.

Whiney unfortunately that's the best song on that album (most of which is pretty tired)

"Blaahh! Oh man this album sucks! They're starting to sound like M.C. Shan's. I don't like it."
"I know. That jam 'who do you worship?' man, what they on, some old devilish shit or something?"
"What's up? Afros got a slammin' beat, but what are they sayin'?"
"Yo Afros is wack!"
POW
"Why don't you stop fuckin' with him man!"
"Listen I'm hemroid, I'm the leader, now put the tape back in and give me the box!"
"Punk."

kinda think the "buhloone is their masterpiece" can be downgraded to regular opinion, been hearing this from people all decade and it's the default position of bloggers like noz and martorialist

of course 3 feet high is still the big important record for the kitchen-sink sampling and the expansion of that middle-class rap tradition run-dmc->public enemy->de la that faded from the mainstream after gangsta rap's triumph where you didn't mention like that you went to art school anymore (no asher)

"kinda think the "buhloone is their masterpiece" can be downgraded to regular opinion, been hearing this from people all decade and it's the default position of bloggers like noz and martorialist"

I'm surprised to hear this, because although I agree, it's not an opinion that's ever met with a great deal of agreement, at least in my experience.

As far as this album, maybe "Bitties..."? Tough call.

ha ha ha, i had to laugh

I like "Buhloone" better too. I think they expanded their sound a lot on that one. Also, I'm not usually a big fan of skits.

skits on 3 feet high > your life

Probably - but that's setting a pretty low bar.

lol aw <3

excuse me could you take my order please i've got to go
shoshonna's got a real job, dag don't you know

o. nate: http://danteross.com/blogs/jzone/2009/07/13/j-zones-top-8-most-perplexing-hip-hop-skits/

^recommend!

Hmm - that's interesting. I didn't realize that 3 Feet High is credited with pioneering hip hop skits. I guess they get points for influence then. I mean their skits are good examples of the form, and it's kind of hard to separate them from the songs, which often begin or end as skits. I guess I should like them - but they seem kind of extra-musical to me - like they have more in common with the golden age of radio and drama than with music per se. I just rarely find myself wanting to listen to a skit, I guess.

hip hop skits begin and end with De La for me, everyone else's are pretty much boring/worthless... its weird how pervasive they were for awhile there. do rappers still bother with them, now that they don't have to worry about filling entire albums anymore?

"So while Grimace and Ronald McDonald are inside spreading a positive image of America’s #1 chain, JD is outside jackin for transpo."

hahahaha

"'94 Ho Draft" by Warren G is one of my favorite skits

"Stop It! Stop It! I can't take it anymore"
"C'mon man chill, chill, just hear the rest of the shit!"

"That's it? That's all? VanDamme! What happened? What happened to the pimps? What happened to the guns? What happened to the curse words? That's what rap music is all about right?"
"Right."
"That little bastard Jeff found this crocka in the right place . . ."
"GARBAGE!"
"De La Soul is dead! Let's be out. Yeah, let's get the crocka outta here!"
"Word, let's go play Hammer!"

I voted for Roller Skating Jam Called "Saturdays" I just got hold of Instant Funk's self titled album. The other day I was listening through for the first time and got a great surprise when the first track started, it took me like 20 seconds to realise it was the Roller Skating Jam intro sample.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

And Instant Funk's trumpet player (Larry Davis) produced L'Trimm's "Cars that Go Boom"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i voted for hey love but rollerskating jam is every bit as good

so is Kicked Out the House just a straight/diss parody of the Jungle Bros or what

yes

reappreciating this atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1-naHt1aA

Youth's 'Disco Fever' mix of Saturdays = still one of my favourite records ever.

Was this album ever re-released in a deluxe package? I'd love to hear a thoughtful remaster of it; always felt the original CD mix was a little flat

A deluxe package would be awesome since there were so many b-sides and remixes from this, but WMG owns those masters now and it's hard to imagine they'd put money behind something like that.

it's sad, this (and every De La album except Grind Date) isn't on Spotify

I think that's also down to WMG. They don't really want to fuck with any albums with which there may be unresolved sampling issues. If any of those albums were made available on Spotify, they'd be opening themselves up to legal action.

I listened to all of 3 Feet High & Rising on Grooveshark last week. Just sayin'.

xp ugh, that's terrible. I just realized this isn't even available on iTunes. This album means the world to me; kind of sad to realize how many people will never hear it b/c it's only available in a really un-enticing, outdated CD package

i still own the weird cassette version with a few songs missing and a weird saxophone remix of "Ring Ring Ring" tacked on at the end

Kind easy to forget how damn long this album must have seemed at the time; this was essentially a double album by the standards of 1991. Can only imagine hearing it on cassette

mm a long album with skits taking the piss out of you all the way through. that you could *read along with*.

3 Feet High & Rising was on in Starbucks the other day and I marveled at how long it's been since I listened to it. Must have been one of the albums I listened to most in college.

mm a long album with skits taking the piss out of you all the way through.

I disagree with this, of course. The skits weren't insulting the listener. But neither were they patting the listener on the back for being smart/tasteful enough to "get it," the way so many other '90s alt-rap albums did (or the way, say, a Community episode does). It was a generally angry album, but there was nothing condescending or calculated about that anger; it was just a spleen vent

the way so many other '90s alt-rap albums did

exactly what albums are you referring to?

Jurassic 5, early Black Eyed Peas, any of those acts that patted their own listeners on the back for listening to "real hip-hop"

i still own the weird cassette version with a few songs missing and a weird saxophone remix of "Ring Ring Ring" tacked on at the end

― some dude, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:16 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last tape i bought before i got my first cd player

xp ugh, that's terrible. I just realized this isn't even available on iTunes. This album means the world to me; kind of sad to realize how many people will never hear it b/c it's only available in a really un-enticing, outdated CD package

― Evan R, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 7:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is however available in the comments section of the first search result for:

phish "de la soul is dead"

These guys have never made a bad record. I rocked The Grind Date two weeks ago and still marveled.

agreed, alfred. though i think buhloone mindstate might be my favourite.

having just picked up a copy i agree w/ the buhloone consensus