by BBG De La Soul at Coachella ( more by Rachel Carr ) Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest 2009 was a blast ( with one notable exception ) and so far 2010 is turning out to be similarly interesting with the addition of the great De La Soul to headline the shindig on July 10th alongside Buckshot , Evil Dee and Smif-N-Wessun [...]
The always entertaining Dante Ross recently dropped some knowledge on Frank magazine for their special De La Soul anniversary edition, which mark's the group's 20th year together. Dante is definitely the right man to wax lyrical on De La's past too, having watched the trio blossom after being assigned as their A&R at Tommy Boy Records, and overseeing the recording of their ubiquitous debut 3 Feet High & Rising . Dante, who penned the article for Frank himself, takes the opportunity to reminisce on how De La was [...]
Good stuff except how the interviewer mistakes Kool G Rap for Kulji rap . *smh*.... Click here for the goods. BTW: above is the original EPK for the Three Feet High album. Related: "3 Feet High and Rising": De La Soul's Track by Track Guide to Groundbreaking 1989 LP. [Rolling Stone] De La Soul - Making of 3 Feet High: Part 1 | Part 2 [HipHop.com] If you don't own [...]
After the De La reminiscing post earlier, here's a great little vid from the 3 ft high and rising times. God bless youtube, eh?
Just stepping aside from the blog collaboration for a hot minute. Check this out...I just found it. Amazing scenes.
Admitting your weaknesses is the first step to defeating them, or so say the self help books. My problem is Analogue... I just can't let it go. A thousand or more vinyl, piles of VHS's, stacks of Minidiscs, and two large boxes of badly labelled cassettes. They are my cultural history, the story of my musical education, but they're are also very dusty, and a point comes where I either open Walthamstow's very first museum of defunct audiovisual formats or with a tear in my eye they go to the landfill! And so to this new [...]
In the early 90's I was attending Shamrock High School. Me and my friends were really into hip-hop. Artists like NWA, The Beastie Boys, The Dream Warriors, and of course De La Soul were in our tapedecks. Check out this promo video for a flashback to the early 90's!
God bless YouTube. I'm an insane De La Soul fan - they are the #1 reason I got into hip-hop - but even I didn't know about the existence of this 3 Ft. High and Rising video press-kit until now. Nostalgia overload!
Fumbling around Google the other night while pretending to do some "research," I came across this amazing piece of hip-hop history via YouTube . It's a video press kit (about seven minutes in length) for De La Soul's seminal debut 3 Feet High and Rising . It's a cheesy yet pretty inventive (for the time) way to introduce the group and the record. It starts simple enough, with the guys introducing themselves and giving the explanation for their names ("Trugoy is yogurt backwards ... yogurt, I enjoy to eat yogurt. I mean, I eat it a [...]
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