De La Soul is NOT Dead
Pos, Dave and Maseo, aka De La Soul, has returned. With an all new documentary called “De La Soul is Not Dead”, which is the perfect title for their comeback, and a brand new album called “and the Anonymous Nobody…” The documentary about the group was posted 2 days ago on Mass Appeal’s official YouTube channel and the documentary chronicles the group’s career, impact and contribution to hip hop. Pos, Dave and Maseo all come from Amityville, in Long Island. They all met in high school and became a group along with Stetsasonic’s original member Prince Paul. Without giving too much information that the documentary has already covered, De La Soul is hands down one of the most original groups in hip hop history. Their 1988 debut album “3 Feet High and Rising” is one of my all time favorite hip hop albums. Classic songs like “Buddy”, “Me, Myself and I”, “A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays”, “Plug Tunin”, watching the documentary reminds you of all those joints, bringing a smile to your face and rapping along to the songs. Now the new album, I had the chance to hear a snippet of each song and the album has 17 songs. One of the songs that stood out to me the most is a joint called “Pain” featuring Snoop Dogg. It was the only song to me that stood out the most but it’s still too early to give a response about the album when I haven’t sat down and heard it all the way through. Still have to wait until I get my chance. De La Soul along with Prince Paul was an inspirational thing to see because De La Soul were different. It gave me a more stronger sense of inspiration to be myself, even when people don’t understand it but that’s usually how it goes. I was just saying to myself just yesterday and always that I never liked to follow trends and do what’s currently popular and to me that’s what De La Soul represented. They represented individuality, originality, peacefulness, creativity, and being courageous. I suggest all hip hop heads to go and support the new album and watch that documentary. Good shit right there. Just wanna end it by saying that their new album also sold more copies than some of the usual popular so called rap artists we hear today and that to me is very important. Is this a sign for true hip hop to make a comeback to the mainstream? What’s gonna happen next? Hip hop will just have to wait and see.