Gonna be completely honest. Never listened to a de la soul album. Would this be a good introduction or start from their debut? I tried listening to them before and the few songs I heard didn’t really grab me.

Buhloone Mindstate is my fav album by De La, maybe you can start with that.

Mass Appeal been doin they thangggg!!

never listened to them this is good good?

Dawg….i just started listening
But listen to their first two albums at least

My fav is De La Soul Is Dead, fav song is Saturdays. Actually my favorite song is off AOI: Bionix, Trying People

Really want DLSID on vinyl

THIS WILL BE! Hell yeah I love their more danceable songs

ok new song with Slick Rick is really dope so im bout to check this jams

It's great.

Tapping in!

gave this a listen at work and its the best from the legend has it series this album sounds crisp and refreshing to hear. the production was great the features all contributed i liked the skits pos still sounds the same after 9 years its amazing not sure if this is the last de la album but i'd ride into the sunset with this one.

Will Be

This album is really picking up steam track by track

this s*** is great. I’m on Day In The Sun and there really hasn’t been a miss yet

Gets even better

This album is a ray of sunlight for these cold dark times. The world needed this. This feels like the last Tribe album, and I mean that as a very high compliment. Yesterday was Phife's birthday. Today De La Soul dropped. The universe feels the presence of The Native Tongues. RIP Phife. RIP Dave. De La Soul Is Alive.

Hope people support this so it gets a chance to be nominated for the Grammy's in 2027, incredible body of work

This is already one of the best albums I’ve heard all year

Black Thought wow

Adding to my list to listen for the weekend!

I’m surprised seeing how many people have never listened to a De La Soul album. They’re one of the all time great and important groups. I think the fact that they hadn’t been on streaming services for so long kind of kept an entire generation from listening to them, which is incredibly sad. Go back and listen to their albums in order because they are as important to Hip-Hop as Tribe, Wu Tang, etc..

Oh yeah, and RIP to Plug 2.

Yeah and I believe it was all calculated as a part of the agenda to remove consciousness from rap

De La is really important to the variety of rap aesthetics and content, they came out in the 80s and were accepted by the street and grassroots

Erasing them from history helps enforce the idea of “mainstream vs alternative” which allows them to belittle rap that isn’t hyper masculine as uncool

De La was that important but their importance has been drastically reduced and there’s nothing we can do. They will never be indicted to the rock and roll hall, while Tribe and Kast already are. they will never get the flowers they deserve outside of a niche in hip hop

Everybody who hasn't listened, please, go back and hear their debut. And any accompanying albums to the sound/scene at the time (i.e. all tribe called quest albums, jungle brothers, digable planets, souls of mischief, pharcyde, etc) you will not regret it. At the very least, you'll sharpen your musical palette and understand more of the development of rap as an art form

They had a lot of bad label issues/sample clearance stuff too tho