Perhaps in the spirit of the day hip hop legends De La Soul will be making their entire catalog FREE for download via their website starting Friday (2/14) at 11am and continuing until Saturday (2/15) at noon. There is an interview with the band right now over at Rolling Stone worth checking out that goes into some further details on why they are doing so.
Whenever I start getting sad about the state of hip-hop these days I pull out my old De La Soul records and remember why I got into hip-hop in the first place. De La hasn't put out a release since 2006's The Grind Date but its members have been active collaborating with groups like Gorillaz and have had various side projects. Recently 2 of its members, Posdnuos (aka. Jacob "Pop Life" Barrow) and Plug 1 & Plug 2 (aka. Deen Whittier) have formed a new project entiled, First Serve.
They have plans to release a full album in April and in the meantime released a new downloadable mixtape called The Goon Time Mixtape via Soundcloud which you can grab below. It's been a while since I've seen some House of Pain or Ini Kamoze make their way into a mixtape.
1 - First Serve - We Made It Interlude
2 - First Serve vs Aloe Blacc – Pushin’ Aside, Pushin’ Along
3 - Notorious BIG vs De La Soul – Whatchu Want
4 - Krs-ONE vs 2&4 –
5 - Jay-Z – 99 Problems (Prodigy Remix)
6 - First Serve vs Run DMC – The Work/Walk This Way
7 - Run DMC vs Jason Navins – It’s Like That
8 - Theophilus London – Girls Money
9 - 2&4 vs Akil (of Jurassic 5), Busta – Must B The Music (Remix)
10 - First Serve vs Eminem – Move ‘Em In, Move ‘Em Out
11 - Lupe Fiasco feat. MDMA – Coming Up
12 - Cee-Lo – Bright Lights, Bigger City
13 - Grand Master Flash – The Message (2&4 Mash Up)
14 - Mystikal -Bouncin’ Back
15 - Jurassic 5 – The Influence (2&4 Mash Up)
16 - Redman vs Dj Quick – Get Dirty (2&4 Remix)
17 - IAM – La Saga (2&4 Mash Up)
18 - First Serve – Must B The Music
19 - The Beatles vs Joan Jett vs Cypress Hill vs House Of Pain vs RATM – Mash Up
20 - BB King – Boom Boom Boom (Remix)
21 - De La Soul – Say No Saturday
22 - Nas – Made You Look (Remix)
23 - Ini Kamoze vs Naughty By Nature – Here Comes The Hotstepper
24 - First Serve – Move ‘Em In, Move ‘Em Out (Demo Version)
On September 27th, DJ/Producer Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow makes his return with his upcoming fourth record The Less You Know, The Better, earlier today, Shadow premiered another new album cut when he guested on the Andy Rourke's Jetlag show on East Village Radio titled "Stay The Course" which featured Plug One aka Posdnuos of De La Soul and Talib Kweli, enjoy below...
