De La Soul (Again)

[Trauma-san]

Man, I've said it 1000 times with almost no acknowledgement, De La Soul gotta be one of the dopest bands that ever existed.  They've been around since 1989, and honestly, every album they made was straight slammin.  Some of their stuff from 1989 is still as fresh as ever, they gotta be one of the top 3 or so most creative hiphop acts ever.  

Here's some dope, dope, dope songs of theres to download, this is just straight off my playlist on winamp, if anybody wants ANY delasoul, just get at me online, and I'll send you 100 songs if you need me to.

A Roller Skatin Jam Named Saturdays
All Good? (featuring Chaka Khan)
Am I Worth You? (Featuring Glen Lewis)
Area (Boiler Room Soundtrack)
Brakes
Breakadawn
Buddy (Featuring Q Tip)
Dog Eat Dog
Ego Trippin Part 2 (The Whole song is lyrics from classic songs)
Eye Know (I love you betta)
Eye Patch
Fallin' (Featuring the Teenage Fanclub)
Ghetto Thang
Held Down (Featuring Cee-Lo)
I Am I Be
Oooh (Featuring Redman)
ItsoWeeZee
Me, Myself, and I
Pass The Plugs
Peer Pressure (Featuring B-Real)
Plug Tunin'
Pony Ride
Potholes In My Lawn
Simply (Samples Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime)
Sunshine
Talkin' Bout Hey Love
The Bizness (Featuring Common Sense)
the Magic Number
Trying People
Stakes Is High

And here's a quote from Stakes is High, so you can see Plug One is a friekin' MONSTER

"The Stakes Is High, Stakes Is High, You Know Them Stakes Is High....
The Instamatic Focal Point Bringin' Damage To Your Bourough
We Some Brothers From The East With Them Beats That Be Thorough
Got The Solar Gravitation, So I'm Bound To Pull It
I Gets Down Like Brothers Is Found, Duckin' From Bullets
Gun Control Means Usin' Both Hands In My Land
Where It's All About The Cautious Livin'
Migrate Into a Higher Form Of Consiquence, Compliments
That Shouldn't Be  Notable,
Man, Every Word I Say Should Be A Hip-Hop Quotable"

"Now Life Can Get All Up In Ya Ass
Baby, You Better Work It Out
Now Lemme Tell Ya What It's All About
Our Skin, Not Considered Equal
A Meteor Has More Rights Then Our People
Who Be Wastin' Times Screamin' Who They Hated
That's Why The Native Toungues Have Been Officially Reinstated"

"I say G's are making figures at a high regard
   And niggas 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, shit like that will make your mama cry
   Better watch the way you spend it
   'Cause the stakes is high"

"
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 Stakes Is High, Stakes Is HIgh, Yall Know Them Stakes Is High"

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

yeah de la soul are very overlooked, theyve put in major work.

[Trauma-san]

They got dropped when Tommy Boy folded, and Elektra bought them up.  There's no webpage or anything on Elektra, though, and I haven't heard CRAP about them or a new album.  The last thing they did that I know of was, they toured with Jay Z and played a few shows with Snoop this summer, back in June.

And what sucks is, they were in the middle of their Art Official Intelligence (AOI) series.  There's 3 of em, of course, and they made a series of 3 albums, each one of them being the creativity behind each album.  They released the first 2, and got cut before Maseo had a chance to release his.  They mentioned something about it when they got cut, they talked some MAJOR SH*T on some of the hiphop acts out now, and said they might drop the album for free on the internet.  It's sad man, when you have all these conscious rappers who get no airplay, even Common and them fools don't get played much... but somebody like Jay Z makes another half ass attempt at being creative, and gets played non stop for months.  

[=[Euthanasia]=]

I find De La Soul get more credit for their older work ("Me, Myself & I" etc). I'm not a HUGE fan myself but i've liked alot of their work, and i'm glad you brought up "Stakes Is High", that song is a 'monster' of a track.