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Feb 28, 2021 · De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1988 in the Amityville area of Long Island, NY. They are best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyri...
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- ‘Plug Tunin’’ (1988) Dave: “Plug Tunin’,” to an extent, was a big-words record, with the inspiration of Ultramagnetic MCs and even LL Cool J or some Run freestyles that were just really big words.
- ‘Me Myself and I’ (1989) Dave: “Me Myself and I” was almost like a punishment. It’s typical — the label comes and says: “Hey, we need one more, but we need something poppy and something familiar.”
- ‘The Magic Number’ (1989) Pos: Before recording it, Mase had his little Casio that you could sample into. He put in the Schoolhouse Rock record with the beat.
- ‘Tread Water’ (1989) Pos: Paul played us a bunch of different beats. The way he did the music to “Tread Water” at home, there was more of a kind of hop to it.
De La Soul (/ ˌ d eɪ l ɑː ˈ s oʊ l /) is an American hip hop group formed in 1988 in the village of Amityville on Long Island, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling, eccentric lyrics, and contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres.
- 1988–present
- Trugoy the Dove
- Amityville, New York, U.S.
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De La Soul’s third album, 1993’s Buhloone Mindstate, is a totem of hip-hop self-expression, the oft-quoted line from “In the Woods”—“Fuck being hard, Posdnuos is complicated”—serving as something between poetic exhale and mission statement.
