(From Cabin In The Sky album; 2025)
Fave song on this new De La Soul album is the unreleased Dove solo jam produced by Dove. Tell tale signs this song is at least 15 years old include our boi Plug Two mentioning Obama becoming president, and the beat sounding like a Dancehall-inspired song Estelle would have dropped in the late 2000s. No Posdnous, no problems here because Dove going for dolo is way more fun than yer standard late-career De La song. Dave Jolicoeur by name, more jocular by nature. Dove had a problem... seriously: so much later De La music is full of Posdnous' lyrical finger-wagging which is the audio equivalent of taking cod liver oil. F**k being humourless, Plug Two was complicated.
Late-career De La invariably seem to end their albums on a highlight: Rock Co.Kane Flow on The Grind Date and U Don't Wanna B.D.S on the first Art Official Intelligence. The latter always has me wishing Maseo would do another solo track for a Change In Speak. Alas, he's too shy like Kajagoogoo.
(From Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump album; 2000)
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Looking back at my 2025 Rap album purchases, those that haven't been posthumous releases ("Infinite"/"Cabin in the sky") have been from rappers fast approaching pensioner status (Ghostface, Raekwon Buck65 etc) . Don't think I copped a single debut release this year either. I bought two Chuck D fronted (Enemy Radio/PE) albums this year and him and Flav are actual pensioners. Boomer Bap.....
Stupid arse Mass Appeal not releasing the Slick Rick album on CD 🤬
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