Quote of the Day [6.02.23]
Within this program of rap
I eradicate the glitches
“Supa Emcees” De la Soul Posdnous
Go Stream De la Soul
De la Soul, that most famous of rap groups, is now streaming. Fire up your favorite streaming service and give them a listen.
Me? I’m gonna pop in my disks and listen to them on physical media. You should, too. Go out and buy their CDs or vinyls or whichever way you enjoy analog sounds.
Reminds me of a story…
You see my original CD of 3 Ft. High and Rising was all scratched up. I bought it again sometime in the early 2000. I may buy it again in! Anyhow, go listen.
3 Is The Magic Number
Darnit. Time moves forward and it robs us of some of our favorite people. RIP Dave AKA Trugoy.
De La Soul had some of the finest rap albums ever and Plug 2 Trugoy was right there with some of the best lyrics. I can not express how much I loved their albums. This one is tough.
We’re all aging. Some of no longer. De La 4 Ever. Plug 2 out.
They Got It From Here. You’re Welcome.
Notes on a book bought in the spring and finally finished this week. The book: Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib, a poet and critic. He grew up listening to the great rap group, A Tribe Called Quest. The book is his attempt at placing that love into words. It is a dialogue that he has with the members of group, fans of rap, and the reader. He makes sense of the nostalgia for the group for the time that was as he grew up with their cassettes and CDs. What they meant to him and to the genre and to a young black man.
It is good.
I grew up with A Tribe Called Quest as well. I grooved to this nostalgic trip of a book. I bopped to ‘People’s Instinctive Travel and the Paths of Funk and Rhythm’ my sophomore year in college. ‘The Low End Theory.’ That’s my jam. It blew my mind my senior year. ‘Midnight Marauders’ is the sound track to my post college malaise. Head nodding along with the beats.
Their last two albums don’t register much with me as hip-hop evolved and as I grew older and looked for an identity to call my own. I blaze a few tracks from them now and then, but like all Tribe fans don’t really like the two.
2016. R.I.P. Malik Taylor. And they drop ‘We Got It From Here: Thank You 4 Your Servic’e days after the Donald was elected. The Donald is also a track on that album. I remember grinding on coding problem at work, earbuds in listening to that album knowing that it was call to action, resistance. Head nodding. Just something special to keep the head up as the darkness seemed to envelope us all.
The dark is still here. The albums of A Tribe Called Quest are still, too. Put them on once in a while.
We The People
The great A Tribe Called Quest came back with a slammin’ album in the Nation’s time of need – just days after the 2016 election. This is the opening single. Hits hard…