Buhloone Mindstate - De La Soul

Advantages: quality hip-hop
Disadvantages: none

...buhloone mind state. odd name. but for true hip-hop fans, this is arguably the greatest work ever done by de la soul, who themselves are legends in the rap game. it was an album i bought a long time ago, and it took me several listens to like it. at first, i dismissed it. too different. i picked it up again about a year later, and it had all changed. it holds my favourite song of theirs: "i am, i be" - a beautiful off-paced exhibition of lyricism. "breakadawn" is just a damn funky song. the beats and rhymes of "in the woods" and "ego trippin" are simply incredible. and then it all takes a pace down with the beautifully mellow "i be blowin'" with horn legend maceo parker. de la know the score that all modern music comes from jazz anyway. a true hip-hop album, containing experimental stuff, with good old beats and a whole lot of finesse... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average off topic

Advantages: A few really good tracks, some De La Soul tunes you have never heard before
Disadvantages: The album has no flow, a few weak remixes

...***Warning*** This review does contain some edited adult language and themes. The words have been changed but the meaning is plain. In the stacks of wax you can find the De La Mix: Remixes, Rarities & Classics, De La Soul's 2004 release on Tommy Boy/ Rhino. This is not so much a greatest hits as it is a revisiting in an alternate universe. Both commercial and critical successes are treated to a fresh dusting off, live performance or remix on this disk. Laying down the Knowledge For those of you that don't already know, De La Soul has been around since rap was just rap. Hip hop was just starting to take root as a music genre. There was just rap. When the boys from Long Island hit the scene there was the rap that played on the radio and the rap we listened to when our parents were out of ear shot. De La dropped 3 Feet High... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Great in car tune.
Disadvantages: Wears thin after a while

...It was no easy work matching up to the standards that De La Soul's debut album '3ft High And Rising' set for all the crew's preceding efforts and for a while it seemed that it wasn't to be. This latest single is, gladly, a return to form for the former daisy-agers seeing them at their funkiest for a while. The days of saying 'No Go' having long since passed, De La now find themselves recruiting the unique vocal talents of New Jersey's weed-smoking microphone terrorist, Redman. A wise move, as Redman's instantly recognisable style gives De La's low-key mic skills, once perfectly suited to their gently upbeat productions, the contrast needed to fit into the contemporary , neck-snappin' production style. Add a sing-along chorus to seal the trio's triumphant return.... Read review

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