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[grapesodamami]

New tumblr! 8 years on my old account and now I’m locked out 💔 but let’s see where this one goes

[bsides-n-rarities-n-dope-music]

De La Soul - I Am I Be ft. Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis

Buhloone Mindstate  |  ‘93

[peoplearecicadastoo]

I am De La. I be cannon. @wearedelasoul @plugwondelasoul @djprincepaul #iamibe #delasoul https://www.instagram.com/p/CpU3pUsu2rZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mrjlogic]

I’m so geeked for @plugwondelasoul @djmaseo @wearedelasoul and Dave! The world has been deprived of their timeless discography for too long! De La Soul finally owns all the rights to their masters for the first time in years. @talibkweli took to Instagram to confirm the news, saying: “After years of being taken advantage by the recording industry in the worst possible ways, De La Soul now owns all the rights to their masters and is in full control of the amazing music they have created.” keep your eyes peeled for the group’s return to streaming.⁠ Photo: Steven Dewall/Getty Images #iamibe #bizmarkie #delasoul #plugone #plugtwo #plugthree #nativetongues #stickabush #buhloonemindstate #3feethighandrising #pos #delasoulisdead #ourculture #theculture #art #blackart #blacklivesmatter #blackownedbusiness #poc #peopleofcolor #art #photography #music #masters #ownership #sneakers #rap #hiphop #artists #wearetheculture #bluelakeauditorium https://www.instagram.com/p/CSY2oDdLanm/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dcsnyder]

👉🏼 10 LPs in 10 Days Challenge 👈 10 ALL-TIME favorite LPs 💿 that are Always in Rotation. Day 5: #DeLaSoul #BuhlooneMindstate ————- De La and #PrincePaul changed Rap for the better as far as I'm concerned. They took it to different places in each of their first three albums they did and each album was amazing in it's own right. My brother @KeithTassick always hooked me up with DeLa albums: I dubbed his cassette of 3 Feet High... and made a tape from his CD of De La Soul Is Dead, which became a mainstay in the ride for the summer of '91 (which was the first summer I had my license, so there's that, too). I heard #Breakadawn prior to hearing Buhloone Mindstate and I thought it was dope (I may have even bought the cassette maxi-single, but I can't quite remember... that may have come later). I had moved away from Keith and my old partner in rhyme Sean by this point, but any time I visited Pittsburgh in those days, we always tried to meet up and I remember them asking me if I had the new De La yet. I did not and I remember Sean saying, "Just wait till you hear #IAmIBe. You'll love it." And he was right. Not only that, but I really dug the album as a whole. After a while it became my go to De La album. There was a maturity there, sure, but it also still had the humor and the crazy, almost impenetrable word play that graced the early De La records and was pretty much absent from Stakes Is High onward (which also lost Prince Paul as a co-conspirator... coincidence?). And even though the #NativeTongues were "broken up" so to speak (check Q-Tip's special thanks in the liner notes for Midnight Marauders for an interesting comment) it still felt like it fit in with that magical movement and time. By the release of Art Official Intelligence I knew that Buhloone Mindstate was my favorite De La Soul album and it still is to this day. Not to mention the fact that it was the last of their albums that featured a plethora of amazing singles, B-Sides and Promos. You know your album is dope when one of the tracks that didn't make the album features #BizMarkie.

[drraptjr]

"Today does not define you." The young ones doing their thing... @catalystarts.nyc #makesomenoise #iamIbe #SXSWEDU

[thesureshot]

Such great work from Manifest friend @demillustration of the legendary PlugWon himself, @plugwondelasoul. #manifest #manifestworldwide #oldschoolhiphop #goldenagehiphop #delasoul #plugone #daisyage #threefeethighandrising #posdnous #nativetongues #memyselfandi #iamibe #thatgoodstuff