de la soul

[sonic1988]

I remember someone saying that de la soul was a good rap group but all their albums at the store are parental advisory. I'm cool with a lil cursing but can someone tell me if they curse every now and then or is it "Nigga nigga nigga" every 5 seconds. I did hear that they are goofy and fun but I just wanna know about the "cursing frequency"

[JumpinJack AJ]

De La Soul is one of Hip-Hop's best groups. If u've ever heard A Tribe Called Quest or The Jungle Brothers...their stuff is on the same level (they are a part of the same click Native Tongues). Their 1st 3 albums don't have explict lyric stickers. Their 4 dosen't either but it pretty much earned it. Their last 2 do have them and the cussing is borderline. It's not over done, but don't let that fool ya. U really should get their greatest hits album. That way u can get a taste of their old stuff and new stuff and see if u like it. I've seen them live and they put on a good show (just 2 turntables and 2 microphones...cuz their's 2 emcees...ha ha).

They got lyrics 4 everybody tho.' They got Hip-Hop party joints, they have socially concious lyics and they got witty, comical stuff 2. They are one of the few true skool artists who keep pressin' on. If u are like me and don't alot of cussing, there are edited versions of their albums.

It's funny u made this post cuz i just picked up De La Soul's Live At Tramps, NYC, 1996 CD 2nite which came out about 2 months ago. Here is what it says at the end of their show 2 give u a taste of where they are comin' from...

"We want 2 thank all of y'all 4 not 4getting what Hip-Hop is. Y'all made that $#!+ 4 real 2nite...Everybody talkin' about 'keep it real'...this is real right here, alright? White, black, orange, purple, green, blue, yellow up in here, enjoying themselves and havin' a good time. Put that ignorant $#!+ outta here. We don't wanna duck from guns. We don't wanna call our women ho's. We don't wanna call our brothas 'n!gg@s.' Hip-Hop, 4 real, i-ight!! Ban the bull$#!+ and get down with this band, i-ight! Native Tongues, we outta here...peace!"

[KevTastic]

I rate De La Soul, they were the most original rap group to come out when they did. I ahve their 1st album, still a classic and sounding fresh today 15years after its release. I also got their greatest hits cos i found it dead cheap somewhere.

Go for it mate

[JumpinJack AJ]

I've liked De La Soul since they came out...but it waz 1996 when i really really got in2 them. It waz a point where i hated mainstream rap. It waz awful. Then, De La dropped their video in early summer 1996 for "Stakes Is High." They stressed everything i waz feeling. Here's the lyrics 2 the song.

DE LA SOUL - Stakes Is High

[Pos]
The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs
Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough
Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it
I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets
Gun control means using both hands in my land
Where it's all about the cautious livin'
Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments
Of strugglin', that shouldn't be notable
Man every word I say should be a hip hop quotable

[Dove]
I'm sick of b!+tches shakin' @$$es
I'm sick of talkin' about blunts
Sick of Versace glasses
Sick of slang
Sick of half-ass awards shows
Sick of name brand clothes
Sick of R&B b!+ches over bull$#!+ tracks
Cocaine and crack
Which brings sickness to blacks
Sick of swoll' head rappers
With their sicker-than raps
Clappers and gats
Makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sick
Even sicker perhaps
Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse

[Pos]
Man life can get all up in your @$$ baby you betta work it out
Let me tell you what it's all about
A skin not considered equal
A meteor has more right than my people
Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated
That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated

(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
(Higher than high)
You know them stakes is high
(Higher than high)
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high
When we dealin' with the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
(Hey yo, what about that love?)

[Pos]
Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds
Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid
We living in them days of the man-made ways
Where every aspect is vivid
these brothers no longer talk $#!+
Hey yo, these n!**@s live it
'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone
Plug One translating the zone
No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play
And if you take offense, f*c* it, got to be that way
J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say?

[Dove]
I say G's are making figures at a high regard
And n!**@s dying for it nowadays ain't odd
Investing in fantasies and not God
Welcome to reality, see times is hard
People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card
Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars
See, $#!+ like that will make your mama cry
Better watch the way you spend it
'Cause the stakes is high

Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high

I think that smiling in public is against the law
'Cause love don't get you through life no more
It's who you know and "How you, son?"
And how you gettin' in, and who the man holding
Hey yo, and how was the scams and how high
Yo what up, huh? I heard you caught a body
Seem like every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti

[Pos]
But they ain't organized!

[Dove]
Mixing crimes with life enzymes
Taking the big scout route
And n!**s know doubt better
Than they know their daughters
And their sons
(Oh boy)

[Pos]
Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain
Positive contact just like my main man
Who got others cleaning up his physical influence
His mind got congested
He got the nine and blew it
Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors
Just animals surviving with that animal behavior
Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky
Experiments when needles and skin connect
No wonder where we live is called the projects
When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do
Anything to get the piece of the pie
Electrify
Even die for the cash
But at last I be out even though you wantin' more
This issue is closed like an elevator door
But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the

(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes....vibrations)
Stakes is high
Stakes is high, come on

Reading the lyrics is one thing...check the song!! One of the best Hip-Hop songs ever recorded after 1995.

[Hero1]

[quote=JumpinJack AJ,Aug 11 2004, 12:45 AM]I'm sick of b!+tches shakin' @$$es
I'm sick of talkin' about blunts
Sick of Versace glasses
Sick of slang
Sick of half-ass awards shows
Sick of name brand clothes
Sick of R&B b!+ches over bull$#!+ tracks
Cocaine and crack
Which brings sickness to blacks
Sick of swoll' head rappers
With their sicker-than raps
Clappers and gats
Makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sick
Even sicker perhaps
Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse[/quote]
this is my favorite part in that song!! classic

yeah i been a de la fan for ages.. i love their 93 album buhloone mindstate..its all jazz-rap! with live musicians and horn players n everythin..dope! and underrated

[TopDawg14]

[quote=JumpinJack AJ,Aug 11 2004, 12:45 AM]I've liked De La Soul since they came out...but it waz 1996 when i really really got in2 them. It waz a point where i hated mainstream rap. It waz awful. Then, De La dropped their video in early summer 1996 for "Stakes Is High." They stressed everything i waz feeling.[/quote]
AJ,

I am definitely feelin' you on that. I've always liked De La but it was their '96 album, Stakes Is High, that really solidified me as a fan. '96 was a good year for [b]true[/b] hip-hop. You had De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest(Beats, Rhymes & Life), and The Fugees(The Score) all dropping incredible albums. Hip-Hop really needed those albums because the whole "gangsta" style was at its lowest form.

[JumpinJack AJ]

Yeah, 1996 what a great hear of Hip-Hop and slightly mainstream R-N-B. Busta Rhymes and Nas were also doin' their thing. I just remember alot of good music comming out that year. Digital Underground dropped Future Rhythm (Oregeno Flow waz all over Yo! MTV Raps) and while the album only got some attention, it waz dope. That waz the last time Hip-Hop and R-N-B music really had that thick kinda production. Since then alot of stuf waz commercialized and production got thin and light-weight 4 ever the best of artists.

"Stakes Is High" waz the stand out track of the summer or 1996 me tho. I taped that video and watched it over and over and over again. A few months later "Itzsoezeee (Hot)" dropped and the video waz hilarious.

I actually got that De La Soul live album this week becuz i wanted 2 kinda relive the summer of 1996 (the show on it waz recorded in May 1996 while the album came out in June/July and i picked it up in early August cuz it waz the 1st time i saw it in stores. I'm getting their remix/rarity album soon and i can't wait 4 the new album this fall/winter.