Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Rap songs that aren't on YouTube but really should be # 20

A square: why aren't De La Soul's classic albums streamable on Spotify or Apple?

A connoisseur: why isn't De La Soul's G.O.A.T B-side streamable anywhere, even YouTube?

There are certain De La Soul B-sides which are legit jams but deserve their position as surprise finds on the flip-sides of the anthems. And then there's What's More? which the group really should have saved for De La Soul Is Dead; Lord knows this song deserved a place on that album more than novelty interludes like Kicked Out The House or Who Do U Worship?.

De La Soul - What's More? From Original Soundtrack "Hell On 1st Avenue"
(From Me Myself & I 12" single; 1989)


There's no evidence that a movie by the name of Hell On 1st Avenue exists, let alone that a soundtrack album was recorded for it. Presumably that part of the song's title is one of Prince Paul's concepts: an imaginary soundtrack for a fictional crack-era blaxploitation movie in which the song's "tell me what's more.... " questions are set? Crazy visions, bruv.
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9 comments:

  1. D2 October 2018 at 13:43

    They put all their shit on bandcamp, the dream answer to these questions.

    I was mad this wasnt on 3 Feet High myself when i heard it, this single was the only De La i had for ages.

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie2 October 2018 at 14:23

    Isn't it just Buhloone Mind State on Bandcamp?

    And a truncated version at that, missing the intro and Long Island Wildin'.

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  3. D2 October 2018 at 14:55

    Fuck youre right, I misread that. Are they rly that hard done by w sample clearance for the albums to be not available? I always thought it was just that one skit on 3 feet high & rising.

    No intros a dealbreaker tbh but unlike Who Do U Worship n Kicked Out The House, Long Island Wildin was on every format of the album til now n good riddance

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  4. Kelvin Mack10zie2 October 2018 at 15:11

    Damn, Donal still holding a grudge against the French for Thierry Henry's #HandOfFrog? I like Long Island Wildin' meself, but will concede that it's an acquired taste.

    The intro is one of the G.O.A.T album openers.

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  5. D2 October 2018 at 15:27

    lololol theyre japanese

    My official position is superproducer solar>>mc solaar>>> the long island wildin lads

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  6. Kelvin Mack10zie2 October 2018 at 15:39

    Fuck, I always though the 2nd fella was French.

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  7. Tesse2 October 2018 at 19:29

    I agree, the Buhloone Mindstate Intro is an all-time great and essential to the album!!!
    I have a powerful memory from 1993--my only memory from 1993--of losing my grip on a balloon at my 6th birthay party, immediately following a perfect recital of AA Milne's "Now I Am 6", and crying like a bitch as it floated up into the sky and popped. From then on, it was all downhill for me and De La Soul.

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  8. Kelvin Mack10zie3 October 2018 at 00:15

    When I was a babby apparently I'd bawl my eyes out to Robyn The Frog's rendition of AA Milne's Halfway Down from the first Muppet Show album.

    Emo b4 Rites Of Spring, me.

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  9. supremeblaqsquare3 October 2018 at 06:13

    https://youtu.be/qq1ZknSA5m8

    aaaaaaaaaaaaand a random song from thizzler

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