"Poll question: Which Prince Paul produced De La Soul album is your favorite?"
This past weekend I was listening to Buhloone Mind State and it reminded me how this was my favorite when it dropped back in the day. Nowadays, I prefer De La Soul Is Dead. Maybe because the humor is a bit darker than the first LP, maybe it's because the music...it just works. I think this is when the bugged out/creative levels were at their peak during this recording period. Can we just get one more song together with Plugs 1-4, please?!
normal35762 Member since Oct 20th 2004 13246 posts
Mon May-22-17 10:03 PM
3. "All dope albums but De La Is Dead is my fav. A Plugs 1-4 album..." In response to Reply # 0
would be nice. In 2017 it might be a too little too late type of thing but I'd listen. I never got a satisfactory answer on why they never did anything together on a De La album after Buhloone. Yeah niggas grow apart but not one song together again on a De La album after all that magic y'all made?
>I never got a satisfactory answer on >why they never did anything together on a De La album after >Buhloone. Yeah niggas grow apart but not one song together >again on a De La album after all that magic y'all made? > >
here is an interview from 2008, where Paul explains the split:
...DJ Sorce-1: Was Buhloone Mindstate a tough album to do because of where De La was in their careers? There was tension within the Native Tongues and it seemed like another transitional phase for the group. When you were recording did you know that was going to be the end of your time with them?
Prince Paul: I knew things were changing. They were maturing and I knew the days of me going “Go in there and moan, we’re going to do ‘De La Orgy'” and them saying “Ok” were over. The vibe had changed. Things had happened since 3 Feet High And Rising. People had kids and responsibilities got heavy. The pressure of trying to follow the success of the first album and all of the criticisms made it kind of deep. Buhloone Mindsate caused us to mature somewhat. For them, I think the difference was that I was still in yuck yuck land. I wanted to do the goofy, crazy stuff. They were into being a little tamer. I didn’t know that it would be my last album with them, but I knew things were definitely changing.
DJ Sorce-1: Was there ever any personal tension?
Prince Paul: Nah. The cool thing about De La and I is that we were friends, first and foremost. The music brought us together, but we had a personal relationship. We laughed, joked and cried together. I’d love to give you a great story where Pos pulled a gun on me, Dave put a knife to my neck, or Mase tried to run me over with a car when we parted ways. There isn’t that story though. We just sat down and had a conversation. More or less I said, “I want to do this and you guys want to do something else. It’s three against one. My intention originally was to only do 3 Feet High And Rising. Maybe this is the time where ya’ll do what you feel represents you.”
At that point in their career they had to think about maintaining their fanbase and selling records. I didn’t know how to take them there. We stumbled upon those first albums. I didn’t really know how to make records that sold; I just lucked up and made records that sold. It’s cool though, it all worked out. It forced me to make my own name. After De La Soul, I initially panicked. I was working on the Gravediggaz album and nobody really got it, so I had to go out and make Prince Paul a recognizable individual. It forced me to work and be creative...
Watched it once with Pixars "UP" no dark side of the rainbow but i still liked it. Good stuff. Great engineering by Bob Power. Sounds good on any system a nice album all the way through
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